I don't tend to get lost, but that's not the case for my wife. She has this habit of getting lost, calling me, and somehow it's my fault. This sounds like a good solution...
My story is kind of different. My girlfriend lives close to the IKEA in Frankfurt, Germany. We used go to there quite often after she moved there. Although it was a few miles away, I always used my iGo for directions and took the same route, which my girlfriend insisted was non-optimal and always suggested a better one. But I only trusted my navigation and wouldn't listen to her. A few months later I updated my maps and my iGo drove me through the route my girlfriend was suggesting all the time. It was an embarrassment
I was going to a meeting in a community more than 100 miles from my home and I did not know the exact address. I thought that there was a road map in the glove box... mistake. I had to backtrack about 20 miles to get to the meeting and I was LATE.
Not for me, since I ONE have an incredible sense of direction! :-) And two, carry at least two navigation devices on my phone or in the car with me.
But, my #1 GF has the WORST sense of direction. she actually calls ME when she is lost and has me plot out the route for her and then tell her where to call, ala OnStar except I don't get the 19.95$ monthly FEE!!!
With this, I could load up her phone with it, and they she could just use this program!
It was our first trip to Chicago and we didn't think needed our 'nav lady' to tell us how to get out of town. Whoa boy were we wrong! We ended up off of the expressway and eventually has to ask our nav lady to point us in the right direction. She not only saved us a trip through the rough part of Chi-town, she also cut 10 minutes off our meanderings through the city. All hail the GPS Nav gods!
I have to admit, I really enjoy driving. So, one day, as I often do, I went for a drive through back country roads to clear my head and get some fresh air. Sometimes getting lost is the best way to get to know your surrounding too.
I was driving for about half an hour when I found myself in towns I've never heard of, let alone been to. It was getting dark and I needed to head back, but driving back the way I came wasn't an option since it was going to take too long. So, I started looking for an interstate.
First I headed down a county route that I thought would take me to the nearest interstate in the area, then I came up on another county route which I took in the same direction as the first, east. Eventually, after a few miles I found the interstate, not before realizing how far I'd gone. I was actually two interstates north (East-West interstates are even numbered, while North-South interstates are odd numbered. I was two even numbers up from where I thought I was).
A GPS would have definitely helped in that situation. When I got home I checked Google maps and found that I could have taken a much shorter route back.
Since moving to our new location, we've depended on our smartphone GPS heavily. Our sons were starting music lessons across town and so naturally we used the GPA to get directions ... but it was determined to have us go down a street that didn't exist, and took us around a half-dozen different ways before we finally had to just stop and ask directions ...
Driving in San Francisco is just a nightmare for us, especially since we come from Sacramento. Getting lost in the maze of residential streets that surround the Palace of Fine Arts, while the kids in the back are complaining that they're missing time that could be spent at the Exploratorium, could have been solved by having a unit like this.
In the days before Sat Nav was so popular while on holiday the wife was doing the navigation I can remember heading down this hill towards the harbour on the wife's instruction.
Looking ahead I could see the edge on the harbour with the road splitting to go either left or right so I turned to my wife and which way now?
To which she replied (without looking up) straight on, I politely pointed out straight on was not an option, so again said which way she still insisted that straight on was the way to go.
So suggested she might want to look at the road and suggest either left or right.
Upon looking up from the map she said well that should not be there.
After deciding she/we were lost she said you choose then.
It turns out three turnings prior she had not realised that I had taken one of the turning she said to take so she thought we were on a different road to where we were.
After a few more wrong turnings we did eventually get to where were heading to.
My wife is not the best navigator (or passenger) at the best of times but to be fair to her she does not drive and never has so looking for signs and following a map do not come easy to her.
Holidays are a lot easier now with sat nav (when the sat nav maps are up to date that is) and she can enjoy the car ride now.
But I'll tell you my favorite reason for using Nav software -- when you're in a strange town trying to find a particular address on a very long street.
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This sounds like a good solution...
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