Saturday, September 29, 2007

I received my Garmin C330 Street Pilot yesterday and I've gotta say that it works great! So far I'm pretty happy with it. There are a couple of small things that I'm not thrilled about but they are probably not directly related to my model... I think these are things that are inherent of all GPS systems. I've summarized a short list of the things I've noticed:
  1. The maps are out of date, I don't know by how long? I was hoping that this would be alleviated by updating through the USB cable, but it seems that it is still out of date by at least 6 or 8 months.
  2. I purposefully missed some turns so that the re-calculation would take affect and there are times when the GPS system takes me out of the way. I assume that this has something to do with a ranking order with the roads that the GPS has in it's maps.
  3. Exits are a bit dicey. There is an exit where I live that has three possible off ramp directions and the GPS voice dictation was confusing though the visual dictation not as much. I'm not sure how well I would have been able to follow these directions if I had not been familiar with the area.
I'll keep posting here with other findings too. All in all I'm glad that I did purchase a GPS system. I can't wait to put it to the test when I drive to the Monday Night football game.

-Warren

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