Motor Home GPS Phone AP
We used WAZE again to guide us from Codorus Campground to I83 South. Naturally, it gave us a route with a Rail Road overpass 12' 2" . We had to take a side road, block the road while we unhitched ou...
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Zero of your complaints can be addressed with a GPS.
There is no way a GPS can know if there is "sharp turns" or "crowded streets" or if there is a lot of "stop and go traffic lights". GPS also cannot determine if a "ferry boat" is of large enough size to handle your rig.
Very few GPS units deal with bridge height either..
GPS units sole design purpose is to route you the FASTEST way according to distance and speed limits and that often means taking you a more direct route which as you found out the hard way often is right through the heart of small towns or even heavy city street traffic.
GPS is not a replacement for the grey matter between the ears and your eyeballs, it is simply a routing tool to assist you from getting from point A to point B.. One of the pitfalls of GPS is the fact that it often has more SMALLER roads in it's database and due to that it just calculates your driving time by using those small roads.
Old fashioned paper Atlas's skipped over the very small roads and you plotted your trip with larger roads which often have less low height objects in the way. Also gives you a better feel for what cities and towns to avoid and plot your way around the bottle necks. GPS units don't offer you that kind of planning.
Keen observation of the roads size, road signs you are driving on should also give you some hints as to what may be ahead.
You know you are in a huge motor home, don't take the smaller secondary roads, GPS units don't know that and have no way of telling you to avoid that route.
And a 37ft Motorhome is nothing, try towing a 35ft TT (actually 38ft including tongue!) behind a 22ft long pickup truck and then try turning around in the middle of a busy small city street at rush hr (have done that)..
There is no way a GPS can know if there is "sharp turns" or "crowded streets" or if there is a lot of "stop and go traffic lights". GPS also cannot determine if a "ferry boat" is of large enough size to handle your rig.
Very few GPS units deal with bridge height either..
GPS units sole design purpose is to route you the FASTEST way according to distance and speed limits and that often means taking you a more direct route which as you found out the hard way often is right through the heart of small towns or even heavy city street traffic.
GPS is not a replacement for the grey matter between the ears and your eyeballs, it is simply a routing tool to assist you from getting from point A to point B.. One of the pitfalls of GPS is the fact that it often has more SMALLER roads in it's database and due to that it just calculates your driving time by using those small roads.
Old fashioned paper Atlas's skipped over the very small roads and you plotted your trip with larger roads which often have less low height objects in the way. Also gives you a better feel for what cities and towns to avoid and plot your way around the bottle necks. GPS units don't offer you that kind of planning.
Keen observation of the roads size, road signs you are driving on should also give you some hints as to what may be ahead.
You know you are in a huge motor home, don't take the smaller secondary roads, GPS units don't know that and have no way of telling you to avoid that route.
And a 37ft Motorhome is nothing, try towing a 35ft TT (actually 38ft including tongue!) behind a 22ft long pickup truck and then try turning around in the middle of a busy small city street at rush hr (have done that)..
