[T3] GPS recommendations?

Adriel Rowley adriel_rowley at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 12 05:34:55 PDT 2012


Yikes! My TomTom does great with traffic, and does decent about rerouting  
around it. Worse comes to worse, I see something different along the way!  
The TomTom also will allow you to calculate a new route. Plus, don't get  
adverts.

I do use my Android for Google navigation but man, does it suck up the  
battery!


Thank you,
Adriel 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID

-----Original message-----
From: Joe Plowick III <gtixpress at gmail.com>
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Sent: Fri, Aug 10, 2012 09:34:48 MST
Subject: Re: [T3] GPS recommendations?

I prefer to use my Android phone for all GPS functions.  You just can't
beat up-to-date Google maps for going places, plus all the other functions
that go with it.  My wife has a Garmin GPS that she uses.  But it usually
causes nothing but problems and it's re-routing function doesn't always
work.  The traffic feature on it is also useless most of the time.  Plus it
displays advertisements on the screen for hotels or restaurants!

Joe P.
1969 Squareback

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:44 AM, matthew n stanfield  
<vw70t3 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> On 2012.08.10, at 1114am, Brent Bottolfson wrote:
>
> >> I'm thinking it's time to look into buying my own GPS. What
> >> do you folks recommend?
> We have a Tom Tom that we got relatively cheap. It is ok, but did not come
> with lifetime maps, i would really recommend getting one with lifetime  
maps.
>
> The Tom Tom works fairly well for basic stuff, but does some really odd
> things sometimes. For instance it will have us get off the interstate at  
an
> exit, only to replan and get us right back on the interstate. It has a
> fairly good data base for fuel, hotels, restaurants and stuff, but if you
> deviate from the planned route to use one of these "points of interest",  
it
> cancels the original route and you have to re-enter your destination once
> you leave the "point of interest".
>
> matthew Stanfield
> 1970 VWfastBack
> mansfield, OHio
>
>
>
>
>
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