GPS for Class A

[elle8]

Still considering purchasing a GPS that guides my Class A through my upcoming travels safely. Knowing that wifi will not always be available and is currently my tool with my desktop for mapping and exploring, looking for feedback from those of you traveling with GPS.

I visited Camping World and they suggested the Good Sam/Rand McNally GPS...???

Thank you for your input! 🙂

[traveylin]

The wife's cell phone provides excellent assistance for locating in town directions and she won't leave home without it.
This summer we will travel to Alaska and will probably get a Garmin because of lack of cell phone towers. We used one on that route 5 years ago and it was very helpfull.

[enblethen]

I have always connected the complete Rand McNally GPS to the computer using the cord. I have never had any problems updating in this manner.
I doubt whether I would even try to download to SD card and then try to update GPS in that manner.

[Bumpyroad]

cochise49 wrote:
I have the Rand McNally GPS built in to the so called "Infotainment" center on our Winnie. I brought the SD card into the house so I could download some trips I routed on the Good Sam site. The docking software said there was an update available for my unit so I downloaded it. When I returned to the RV with the card. The software was corrupted and would not boot. Rand McNally support said they were working on a fix as several persons had experienced the same problem. I asked if it were possible to "roll back" the update to the previous version and they said it wouldn't work that way. I got a PM from RandMcSam ( who had monitored a post I left on the forum)saying to email him with the serial number etc.which I did. He said he would get it fixed in a "timely" fashion. I let him know that my unit did not have a Good Sam logo on it anywhere so wondered if he was the right person for the fix. Apparently, no one will be working on the issue over the weekend so, I'll be using the CoPilot app on my iPad for a trip we are leaving on tomorrow. Always something in these very complicated rigs.

does this mean that a person should first duplicate the SD card to have one to fall back on when updating the original one?
bumpy

[cochise49]

I have the Rand McNally GPS built in to the so called "Infotainment" center on our Winnie. I brought the SD card into the house so I could download some trips I routed on the Good Sam site. The docking software said there was an update available for my unit so I downloaded it. When I returned to the RV with the card. The software was corrupted and would not boot. Rand McNally support said they were working on a fix as several persons had experienced the same problem. I asked if it were possible to "roll back" the update to the previous version and they said it wouldn't work that way. I got a PM from RandMcSam ( who had monitored a post I left on the forum)saying to email him with the serial number etc.which I did. He said he would get it fixed in a "timely" fashion. I let him know that my unit did not have a Good Sam logo on it anywhere so wondered if he was the right person for the fix. Apparently, no one will be working on the issue over the weekend so, I'll be using the CoPilot app on my iPad for a trip we are leaving on tomorrow. Always something in these very complicated rigs.

[D_E_Bishop]

elle8 wrote:
Thanks to all for your feedback! My favorite way to travel is with maps and a Woodalls' Campground book and my own good sense of direction.

I have been told to use the $ 9.99 Allstays app on my Iphone, but I like a plan B since there are places in my New England home base where the phone doesn't work.

I did choose the Good Sam Rand McNally GPS ...

Black Ice, brutal winds and light snow here this morning.

Cheers from New England 🙂

Well next winter set that new GPS for Campland on the Bay in San Diego(only because it's So. Cal.) and skip that black Ice and cold.

Y'all Come now, y'all hear.

[enblethen]

I had to get a SD card for my Rand McNally before I could do one of the big updates. You may want to pick one up.
Did you get the Lifetime maps?

[elle8]

Thanks to all for your feedback! My favorite way to travel is with maps and a Woodalls' Campground book and my own good sense of direction.

I have been told to use the $ 9.99 Allstays app on my Iphone, but I like a plan B since there are places in my New England home base where the phone doesn't work.

I did choose the Good Sam Rand McNally GPS ...

Black Ice, brutal winds and light snow here this morning.

Cheers from New England 🙂

[wildtoad]

I have good luck with Tom Tom, Garmin. Hated the Magellan my wife got me for Christmas two years ago from CW. After the last software update, just threw it in the trash. All of them will from time to time take you somewhere you don't want to go. Several time while travelling the wife will ask why I'm going this way. My response is always the B---- in the box told me to.

Always carry a back up navigation device (also know as a map).

[Bumpyroad]

Finally Time wrote:
The speedometer in the motor home is difficult to see in some lighting conditions so I use the speed indication on the GPS screen. All in all I am very happy with it and think it was worth every penny.

the "speedometer" on my garmin is more accurate than the one in the vehicle. the only thing I don't like is that they don't have a provision, I guess, where you can adjust the fudge factor to where it turns red. I would like to set that one or two MPH over the limit so if it turns red it catches my attention.
bumpy

[chiefneon]

Howdy!

If you own a tablet or a smartphone try the Co-Pilot app. It has a RV setting on the app. You also don't need a data signal when using it as the maps are downloaded to the devise.

Co-Pilot

Happy Trails"
Chieefneon

[ryanallie1]

Hi All.
We really haven't had any troubles at all over many many years of traveling with a TOM-TOM-ONE GPS, and also for many, many years of using a "Delorme GPS SYSTEM, that you use on your Laptop Computer.

Later on we even up-grade to the Newest 5 inch TOM-TOM-ONE GPS SYSTEMS. So far in all of these years, we have never been taken down any wrong roads or any wrong turns. We made everyone of our "Destanations Trouble Free"

We still use our first "Tom-tom-One", in our "Toad" and use the 5 inch one in the Motorhome. Works out great for use. Plus we have always had up-graded newest "Road Atlas's with us too. Not to bad for being an "Traveler" an "RV'er", and a Boon-Dockers for the past 46+ years.

We also have never "Broken Down" or have ever had a "Flat Tire". I have done all of my own work on every RV we have owned in all of theses years, and everything else we hqve owned too. Good Luck to All. Happy Travels. Dan & Jill & our two Small "Yorkie Kids" who love to travel as much as we do.

[Finally_Time]

I use the Good Sam Rand McNalley with the 7 inch screen. It's only me and the cat so using a smart phone, tablet, or laptop isn't an option. I like the way I can program in the height and length of the motor home so it will avoid sending me on roads with low overhead clearance or tight turns. I've velcroed the mount on the dash so I can reach it. The seven inch screen and large readouts are easy to see. The speed reduction warnings come in handy. The speedometer in the motor home is difficult to see in some lighting conditions so I use the speed indication on the GPS screen. All in all I am very happy with it and think it was worth every penny.

[Shearwater]

It is worthwhile getting a unit with free map upgrades. Routes and roads change with time.

[enblethen]

I have the Rand McNally unit. It is not the Good Sam version. It is a 7710(?).
It is very good as long as the program is up to date. Of course this is true with any GPS. It has a better display then the Garmin. It shows some of the adjacent roads, more like a mapping software then the Garmin.