[Jason Dunn]

Continuing our 8th anniversary celebration, I have some software to give away - CoPilot Live 7 Mobile Navigation, courtesy of ALK Technologies. This package includes a 2 GB microSD card, an SD card adaptor, a CD, and the product key card. This software hasn't been installed or activated in any way - I'm just not much of a GPS kind of guy - and it sells for $99 USD.

Want to win it? Here's how: post a message to this discussion thread telling me about one time when you've gotten lost and GPS software on your Windows Mobile devic could have helped you find your way. Or, if you're one of those people who have never been lost, tell me about a time you've been...geographically inconvenienced. ;-) One message per person, and I'll randomly select one post at 3 PM mountain time on Friday the 24th.

UPDATE: A reminder that if you don't see your post right away, please wait 24 hours before re-posting. Odds are that it's your first post since we moved to vBulletin and it's simply held in moderation.

[Jason Dunn]

Continuing our 8th anniversary celebration, I have some software to give away - CoPilot Live 7 Mobile Navigation, courtesy of ALK Technologies. This package includes a 2 GB microSD card, an SD card adaptor, a CD, and the product key card. This software hasn't been installed or activated in any way - I'm just not much of a GPS kind of guy - and it sells for $99 USD.

Want to win it? Here's how: post a message to this discussion thread telling me about one time when you've gotten lost and GPS software on your Windows Mobile devic could have helped you find your way. Or, if you're one of those people who have never been lost, tell me about a time you've been...geographically inconvenienced. ;-) One message per person, and I'll randomly select one post at 3 PM mountain time on Friday the 24th.

UPDATE: A reminder that if you don't see your post right away, please wait 24 hours before re-posting. Odds are that it's your first post since we moved to vBulletin and it's simply held in moderation.

[nerdstrap]

How about this? I let the GPS tell me which way to go... I didnt pay attention and instead of driving 3 hours to my destination, it took 6! but it was 5 fewer miles!!!

[paulsg63]

Actually... I had a GPS... got lost in the redwoods in Cali...
Where I was, the trees were so high... I couldn't get a signal!!

Then the next tour came through and I tagged on with them... no problem!!

Kinda lame... but truth is stranger than fiction.

Paul G

[freddiemac]

I had just moved to a new town. My folks flew in to visit me. I was so proud that I had my own house, my own job, that I could take care of myself. I picked them up at the airport and headed home. About an hour later, I realized that I had was driving in the opposite direction and was now 2 hours away from my house. It was embarrassing, to say the least. Fortunately, my folks were kind enough to say how sweet it was of me to show them the countryside....

GPS would definitely help.

[vector]

When my wife at I were driving to our honeymoon at the beginning of August we made a few wrong turns. We rented a place we found on the internet, which turned out great, and although my wife was pretty familiar with the Adirondack's she had not been to this place specifically. We made a few wrong turns but arrived without too much of a problem.

I have no doubt that a GPS on my Pocket PC Pro phone would have taken us straight to our destination!

[twathoughts]

I used to have a GPS cradle for my Dell Axim until the Axim's serial port broke. Last year, a few co-workers drove to Cincinnati from Tennessee. I had my system all set up in the rental car when my co-worker told me to "turn here" when my GPS was telling me to turn up ahead. I followed my co-worker's advice and we ended up on a by-pass of some sort. He wanted to throw my device out the window even though he was wrong. I then told him we should listen to my device, and sure enough, it led us back into the city and to our hotel.

I now have a Windows Mobile phone, but no GPS. Plus, the map data for my old system is several years old anyway, and roads are always changing.

[yawanag]

I could definitely use this as I have a poor sense of direction. To tell me to turn north means nothing. I do better if you tell me there is a Shell Gas station on the corner.

[scmidlap]

We were going to visit my wife's sister and family in New Brunswick. Although I know the way I let my GPS and software take me there. Once in the city, it started to turn me in the opposite direction of their house. Knowing that sometimes the turns are different (vs my gut feeling) the software usually works out.

I finally overrode the program and went my own way (my gut won out). It was then that I realized that the software was taking me to a different location.

It was actually how the street was listed. There are French and English versions. I now know to check first.

Sigh

[indiana99]

Heading to my mom's house in Missouri for the second time, I ran into a detour. The detour took from a state hwy to a county road. I must have missed the next sign. I ended up in Arkansas. I stopped at a gas station and asked for directions (the first and oly time). I lost about 2 hours, but I did get there. A GPS device would have definitely helped.

[BudPritchard]

The rotarys in Hyannis drove me nuts. Constantly turning on wrong street or bypassing the street I needed to turn on.
A GPS would have helped to prevent going in circles.