Any GOOD RV-oriented dashboard navigator?
I've got a regular plain vanilla Garmin dashboard navigator my kids gave me for Christmas. It's ok, but it's not particularly customized for RV driving. I've just learned there are RV-oriented n...
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When you put enough qualifications on "GOOD" the answer is going to be "NO!"
The necessary intelligence to do what you want has not been yet been built into anybody's map databases, and nobody's routing software has reached the level of "divine my personal intentions."
Route/street naming is one of the most difficult problems, because each "arc" in a topology needs a unique name for database purposes, and may have many aliases for human interface purposes. Think of the two-block long segment in a small town that carries three U.S. highways, two state highways, and is a city street and a county road. For turn-by-turn navigation purposes, it must deal with users who are looking for a local address, which will usually carry the city street name. So when it talks to you, it uses the city street name at that point.
My experience, 40+ years of human navigator sitting in the right seat, people don't do a whole lot better than computers, even when they better understand your immediate intentions. In the case of the computer, it doesn't understand your needs. In the case of the human, it doesn't have the information.
The necessary intelligence to do what you want has not been yet been built into anybody's map databases, and nobody's routing software has reached the level of "divine my personal intentions."
Route/street naming is one of the most difficult problems, because each "arc" in a topology needs a unique name for database purposes, and may have many aliases for human interface purposes. Think of the two-block long segment in a small town that carries three U.S. highways, two state highways, and is a city street and a county road. For turn-by-turn navigation purposes, it must deal with users who are looking for a local address, which will usually carry the city street name. So when it talks to you, it uses the city street name at that point.
My experience, 40+ years of human navigator sitting in the right seat, people don't do a whole lot better than computers, even when they better understand your immediate intentions. In the case of the computer, it doesn't understand your needs. In the case of the human, it doesn't have the information.
