[Shop-talk] Looking for GPS recommendations

[Randall]

> Lifetime map updates - don't buy without this feature.  Map updatess
> can cost as much as a whole new unit...

I agree entirely, but don't expect too much from the updates.  I updated my Nuvi just before leaving home on a road trip a few
months ago, and found at least a half dozen places where the updated map did not match the actual road.  Some of the incorrect roads
had been changed recently (within the past year), but others were at least several years old.  We also found a restaurant listing
where a new restaurant was listed in the same location, but the old one had not been deleted; plus several more that just weren't
there (and no sign they had been there recently).

The Nuvi also doesn't tell you about roads that are only passable at certain times; eg ferries that don't run on some days or fords
that are impassable when the water is high.

OTOH, Google maps seems to usually think such things just don't exist.  My brother-in-law's smart phone was going to route us 50+
miles out of the way, instead of waiting 10 minutes for the next ferry.

-- Randall