Phone as gps

Last year we went to Missouri from Pa.We used our $325.00 RV GPS to get us to a campground in Indiana.The next leg to a campground in Missouri,our expensive GPS wouldn't allow us to enter the campground address so we used my Samsung S4 and it worked great.

SCVJeff wrote:
Wife overheats too, tells you where to go even of voice nav was off, and doesn't need to be plugged in

And Wife doesn't cool down as fast as an overheated cellphone...

Wife overheats too, tells you where to go even of voice nav was off, and doesn't need to be plugged in

I have a corporate iphone with shared data across all of our phones. We don't come close to maxing out the data, so I simply use the iphone for GPS; use Google Maps app. Used it on our South Dakota trip last year from Illinois, and it worked fine all the way, through remote areas and a thunderstorm. Can't complain....

I use both my phone and built in nav system in my truck. No experience with garmin/tom tom/etc.

Many of the objections to phones here are no longer valid or paritally valid. GPS works wtihout cell coverage but you needed to route while you have coverage or have downloaded the maps. No issues with phone calls, etc.

One issue I have that has been mentioned and can be a deal breaker is my iPhone 6 overheats when I keep the map on. It did it to me last Saturday and it was a mild day but phone was in sun combined with google maps. Fine for city but not long term. It does zap the battery too but you can charge it easily in the car.

What I like is traffic info so I will often use phone and truck nav system to see traffic if I expect it to be congested.

willald wrote:

goducks10 wrote:
If the GPS fails then use a voice activated route service. It's called a Wife. It will roll down the window automatically and ask for directions. It's free and doesn't need any cell towers or satellites. :)

Nice. :)

However, anyone that thinks a 'wife' is anything REMOTELY like 'free'....Welll, they either live in a serious dream world, or haven't been married very long. :)

Will

Haha, true.

goducks10 wrote:
If the GPS fails then use a voice activated route service. It's called a Wife. It will roll down the window automatically and ask for directions. It's free and doesn't need any cell towers or satellites. :)

Nice. :)

However, anyone that thinks a 'wife' is anything REMOTELY like 'free'....Welll, they either live in a serious dream world, or haven't been married very long. :)

Will

If the GPS fails then use a voice activated route service. It's called a Wife. It will roll down the window automatically and ask for directions. It's free and doesn't need any cell towers or satellites. :)

I use a combination of physical maps for fine detail, google maps on my phone, and web research when parked with wifi. I don't have a stand-alone GPS.

I hate messing with ANY of that stuff while driving, so before I start I make myself a hardcopy, handwritten list of turns. Yep, I actually write it down in a notebook: 'L on 147, R on 95,' etc.

If I saw an app with the level of detail that AAA or Forest Service maps have, I would get it! Anybody know of one?

I use paper maps to get around google maps' insistence that only the main roads exist. Even if I zoom in to the level where you see individual buildings, it often refuses to admit there are roads there. But if I type in the name of a road, gleaned from a paper map, then, lo, there it is! I also like to be able to see the big picture, which is nearly impossible on a small screen.

And paper maps have a romance to them.. But I do keep trying to spread my fingers to zoom in :).

When was the last time you read or saw on the news
That reading the map caused the accident ?

Far more drivers distracted by their electronic devices

My memory still functions well enough, that I can remember what exit number and name I want that's 2 hours up the road, and watch for it
And like I said my mapping app on the phone will show me where I am
I don't need it to say get off here at 0.5 miles

Too each his own