Do you have a satnav

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Do you have a satnav

Do you have a sat nav


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crap forgot to add The wife very good :(

And you forgot to add Connect Nav+ so I had to check "other".

I've used CN+ in the Stilo on several occasions to get me to Greece and Romania, well... as far as the Hungary/Romania border. There's no map disc for Romania.

Only time it let me down was on the way back from Venice one time when it took me on a 30 mile detour up the Dolomite mountains.

Dave.
 
Mmm, nobody uses maps nowadays;) Clever piece of kit no mistake. Very good in unknown territory, well that's what they're designed for:D

A good investment if you do a lot of driving in unknown places as I said, but other wise, well a map on the odd occasion does have its place:)
 
Mmm, nobody uses maps nowadays;)

I am still happy printing a map from streetmap.co.uk to find my way

;)

+1

I've never had a satnav, other than once when it came with a hire car in Florida, and I still use my 1990 Castrol UK road atlas, complete with missing M40 and various other roads built since then :p

Streetmap.co.uk normally delivers the goods for me. Getting to the main location (i.e. town) is not normally a problem, and once I get my bearings from a main landmark I normally find roughly where I'm going. Often need a few circles and U turns to find the exact location but I've never failed to find an address yet. A satnav would be nice though... ;)
 
I've got a TomTom but as above I never really have much trouble getting to places, it's just navigating the town/city to get to the final destination is the bit I hate. I do wish though that I could tell my TomTom to go via certain roads 'cos I almost always forget where to get on/off the B7076/7078 instead of taking the M74 as it's much more fun :)
 
I used to use igo8 on my old mobile (windows mobile) but I have a new phone now and I'm trying to find a decent satnav for it, uses symbian I thinkit's called operating software.

I get lost outside of my hometown without satnav lol
 
Sat nav's aren't always the best / most reliable ways of reaching a destination. Sometimes they take you on longer routes or more difficult/challenging routes.

I rarely use a Sat nav if I can help it. And even when I do use one, I make sure I print off a route map from Google (with directions and instructions) so if the Sat nav fails me, I know I can pull over where it's safe and read the map.
 
I have a Navman , which i regularly refer to as my 'crap-nav' , i dont haink its gotten me anywhere 1st go yet , iv changed it 3times due to different problems , had it updated regularly and still the same . Gona get me an A-Z or use streetmap.com a lot cheaper and more reliable.

Joker
 
Yeah. Those Navman's are awful, I've used one before to go to Cambridge, it didn't even recognise the Cambridge postcode prefix (being "CB"). Further, when I typed in Cambridge, it didn't find it either.
 
I use intuition/maps for general directions, as i can see if there is anything interesting on the way if i took a slight detour.
Use sat nav more when im reaching to find a specific address.
e.g. in the summer, I drove from stoke to exmouth to look at an etching machine (work related). i know where exmouth is, so I didnt realy pay much attention to my sat nav until I was entering exmouth, then used sat nav to guide me to the industrial unit which was my destination.
 
LG Renior, amAze GPS (Java) and high-tech multi device multi dashboard compatible mounting (blu tac). Plus a ciggy lighter charger as running the GPS sensor, screen and using the network canes the battery.

dan-the-man, if your phone will run Java apps google for amAze GPS 4.5 (not the latest version, it's paid for, the older one is free and still works).
 
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