"Bernd Felsche" <bernie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Athol <athol_SPIT_SPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Jason James <at@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>> I go to Sydney once or twice a year, and the traffic on the major
>>> roads (not freeways or motorways) which are 4 or 6 laners is
>>> bloody terrible if you're looking for a place you haven't been to
>>> before. Everyone else are doing their daily drive and hence speed
>>> up as they can go auto-pilot, but for the unfamiliar driver
>>> slowing down to catch a place to turn or change lanes to get into
>>> the right one,..at your own risk! You get blasted by horns,
>>> fla****ng high-beam, cars accelerating around you etc etc. And
>>> this is after studying the road map. Maybe time to get a
>>> navigator set-up.
>
>>The navigator would use sensis maps, so would be pretty much guaranteed
>>to be worse than the printed maps. If you want to see what I mean, try
>>using google maps to give directions on a route that you are familiar
>>with and see how ridiculous the results are...
>
> That's why _before_ my trip to Sydney, I studied the maps and
> suggested routes. (Both TomTom and Giggle)
>
> The nav. system got me where I wanted, without stress; despite me
> "going my own way" :-)
>
> In Sydney, ISTM that you have to get into the correct lane early...
> sometimes a kilometre before your turn, depending on traffic. If you
> don't make it in time and miss your turn, then the nav. system
> comes into its own.
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I have used both the TomTom and Navman, tested them both over a route I
knew
pretty well, Penrith to Bondi, the TomTom put me through the centre of the
Sydney CBD while the Navman took a more logical route and went via
Randwick
and avoided about 2 hrs of stop start, **** traffic. and while the TomTom
thought it a good idea to go down narrow one way streets and hundreds of
bloody give way signs the Navman used main thoroughfares.
Both had the same settings, avoid toll roads and fastest route, apart from
that it was default settings I wont bother with a TomTom ever again.
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