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If you're thinking about getting a GPS system, may I recommend a commercially available system that is built for your specific location (like the United States) as opposed to the Free Software Navit, using the Open Street Map system?
Here's why you want to avoid Navit and OSM at all costs: it tries to kill you.
Everything is fine up until it decides that the best route would be to use the expressway. Now, ignoring local traffic conditions, this would seem like the best route ... but the path taken is a tad heroic.
First, it instructs you to get on the wrong parkway, then make a SHARP RIGHT using your handbreak and get on the expressway using the offramp.
Second, it tells you to take a SHARP RIGHT off of the expressway overpass and on to the local street.
I hope you have good shocks.
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Funny! My iGuidance tries to get me to turn onto roads below me as well. As if they planned an off ramp but never made it.
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I thought we all did that.Originally Posted by LordKaT
Must be just me and John McClane then.
I was going to correct the spelling, but then I couldn't bring myself to care how a fictional characters name is spelled
Made my night... more fun with wayward GPS'ers
http://www.engadget.com/tag/gps,accident
With a version such as 0.1.1 I also don't recommend anyone actually use it for much else other than testing purposes
Says the man lost in Afganistan.
+1 for an awesome thread.
And my iGuidance has never let me down jut fyi.
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