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Interesting new navigation app for Android
I just found a newer Android app for navigation that seems pretty interesting. It uses premium HERE maps (just like Garmin) and allows for offline saving of the maps. You can set your vehicle parameters to take length, weight and propane route restrictions into account. The most interesting setting is that you can bypass "truck route" restrictions while still being routed based on vehicle size and weight. That seems perfect for an RV. This does cost money which is understandable since it's HERE maps. But you can see the calculated route and the ETA in detail without paying. I've been playing around with various routes tonight and it seems to do really well. You can't actually navigate a route though without paying a subscription. I have no relationship to this company whatsoever. Here is the link: Google Play Store link1.3KViews0likes6CommentsTransferring Basecamp route to Garmin
I'm thinking of jumping back in with Garmin with the RV 890. I haven't used a Garmin since before the nuvi but had about 12 of them before that. The biggest thing I want to do with it is build long routes with many stops. I'm curious how the trip planning works on modern Garmin units. TomTom has a trip planning feature on a website and then it transfers it to the GPS. However whatever route you transfer from the website to the GPS is transferred as a track meaning that the GPS follows it exactly without deviation regardless of traffic conditions etc. I don't want that. I want my stops from my Trip Planning to transfer over and I want the GPS to calculate a route between each stop in real time based on traffic. Is this how Basecamp and Garmin work or will it not do what I want it to do?1.2KViews0likes2CommentsRe: If you had a do-over, which would you get?
Comparing the gas mileage between the Sprinter in the Ford V10 is one thing but what's not mentioned here is that you are paying significantly more money for the chassis to begin with in your initial purchase. It's getting harder to identify what that premium is because there are not a lot of brands that offer the same coach in a Sprinter or a Ford V10. The premium seems to be about $15K before the upfitting even starts. That's a lot of gas to get $15K to pay back.538Views0likes0CommentsRe: Chicago Trip Advice
While I agree with the suggestions to camp well outside the city and take the train in, you said that you only had 4 hours to spend downtown. The train ride is going to take 2 hours of that 4 hours. If you truly only have 4 hours to spend downtown then the only option in my opinion is to use the McCormick Place marshalling yard as a parking spot and then either use the L trains or Uber to get around to some sites. It's going to be very difficult to spend 4 hours downtown and still get in and out of town without some significant traffic. Your only real chance is to target 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as your time downtown. You would also need to call ahead to make sure that there's no significant events at McCormick Place in case they will not let you in the marshalling yard. After leaving there for the day then I would head west on 80, not 88, and get out to Joliet or LaSalle or some of those towns in that area618Views0likes0CommentsRe: New navigation device available
camper Kilgore wrote: I can't understand why so many people gave it great reviews. Maybe my old brain just couldn't get the hang of the steps necessary to get it to work without problems. Couldn't agree more. CoPilot is a product that I started using back in the old Windows phone days and came back to it a total of three times with thousands of miles each time. Each time I stopped using it and swore never again. I could go on and on about the technical issues with the product but I wont. My problem is the ethics of the company. They advertise real sign post data and the truth is their data has no idea what the real sign post actually says. They're simply using the road names as they exist in their map data and putting those road names on a green colored sign and claiming that to be real signpost data. Since many road signs do have the intersecting street names in them, most people don't think anything of it. Unfortunately for them, many signposts have names of attractions, city names and other things unrelated to the crossing road name and it becomes easy to see they're dishonest approach. Any company that allows their marketing people to do that, I won't have anything to do with.685Views0likes0Comments
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