2010 Nav comments

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

You might be right...... Texas is ..."BIG"
Thats why I look up destinations in advance just to
get an idea where I'm headed. The iPhone helps also.

When I'm traveling from Chicago to Phoenix, I generally stop along the way for a bit of sleep. One function of the GPS is to tell you where these places are when you are planning to stop for the night.

Of course, to take your example to the extreme, one could use a map instead of a GPS... but then that's not why people pay for a GPS now is it...

If you use a GPS to look-up a hotel and it says the hotel is in Van Horn, you click on the "use as destination" option, and it then shows the hotel 40 miles away in Kent, but with the same street address, the GPS is deficient.

My expectations are not that high -- I want the $1,900 BMW GPS to work as well as a $200 Garmin. I think that is a reasonable expectation.


P.S. With the new GPS, BMW has switched providers of mapping and POI data from the NavTeq to the European TeleAtlas. Your "Old" GPS probably has superior data to the new GPS.