What do you use for Navigation these days.
Discussion
I use the Alpine nav that was built into the Evora. It has taken me across Europe on convoluted trips using way points perfectly, it warms me of traffic problems and reroutes accordingly, warns me about speed cameras and has a decent size screen (much netter than a phone). I find it efficient and reliable.
The large display also shows buildings in 3d in built up areas and that can help with navigation and identifying the correct turning.
The only niggle, is that if I am planning a trip with lots of way points to force a specific route, there is no way to upload it from Google Maps, and for some reason it didn't work on a half mile stretch of Autopista outside A Coruna in Spain (this point was obviously critical to finding the correct exit into a complicated city!)
The large display also shows buildings in 3d in built up areas and that can help with navigation and identifying the correct turning.
The only niggle, is that if I am planning a trip with lots of way points to force a specific route, there is no way to upload it from Google Maps, and for some reason it didn't work on a half mile stretch of Autopista outside A Coruna in Spain (this point was obviously critical to finding the correct exit into a complicated city!)
jamoor said:
Welshbeef said:
For me I’ve had non integrated Nav and integrated Nav.
Integrated makes the dash far better and the Nav (in the Cars I’ve owned) has been in the right line of sight whereas the alternate have been on the screen so cutting down on viewable road.
Non integrated always took much longer to load up maybe modern ones are quicker
They leave horrible marks on the windscreen and need wires hanging on the dash to the charger.
Looks cheap and it’s old school vs integrated as that is now very very common so it’s a dying breed
What decade do you live in?Integrated makes the dash far better and the Nav (in the Cars I’ve owned) has been in the right line of sight whereas the alternate have been on the screen so cutting down on viewable road.
Non integrated always took much longer to load up maybe modern ones are quicker
They leave horrible marks on the windscreen and need wires hanging on the dash to the charger.
Looks cheap and it’s old school vs integrated as that is now very very common so it’s a dying breed
None seem to be perfect.
Discovery 3
Integrated sat nav is a joke. The crazy "c" roads it has sent me down were totally inexplicable. Gave up on it ages ago
Garmin sat nav stuck in far bottom right of screen. Doesn't block any view apart from a bit of the bonnet :-)
As it is always on (with ignition) it means I have fully functioning hands-free all the time (phone auto-connects). Also the mobile camera alerts are helpful. Using the phone for hands-free always ends up with me holding it to my ear so I can hear properly - been the same with last 3 phones. sat-nav Hands-free is a must for me.
If I hit heavy traffic, or traffic warnings from the Garmnin I often fire up Google maps on the phone for a "second opinion". More often than not the traffic the Garmnin was planning to avoid had cleared up half an hour ago. Google beats it hands down in this regard - crowd-sourced traffic data is unbeatable.
I rely on the Garmin 99% of the time. Big, clear, simple road graphics. Just gets on with it. I dont' want to be getting my phone out every time I jump in the car and plugging it in to charge etc. Stays in my pocket.
My other car is almost a classic (TVR) - for that I have a cradle for the phone - but I find it is always a compromise - the screen is never good in sunlight. As it is on the windscreen it gets glare easily. I also can't hear it with the roof down.
So it all varies really. The garmin has chosen stupid routes before. The phone (google maps) has on more than one occasion send me a fair few miles from where I dropped the pin (no idea why).
Discovery 3
Integrated sat nav is a joke. The crazy "c" roads it has sent me down were totally inexplicable. Gave up on it ages ago
Garmin sat nav stuck in far bottom right of screen. Doesn't block any view apart from a bit of the bonnet :-)
As it is always on (with ignition) it means I have fully functioning hands-free all the time (phone auto-connects). Also the mobile camera alerts are helpful. Using the phone for hands-free always ends up with me holding it to my ear so I can hear properly - been the same with last 3 phones. sat-nav Hands-free is a must for me.
If I hit heavy traffic, or traffic warnings from the Garmnin I often fire up Google maps on the phone for a "second opinion". More often than not the traffic the Garmnin was planning to avoid had cleared up half an hour ago. Google beats it hands down in this regard - crowd-sourced traffic data is unbeatable.
I rely on the Garmin 99% of the time. Big, clear, simple road graphics. Just gets on with it. I dont' want to be getting my phone out every time I jump in the car and plugging it in to charge etc. Stays in my pocket.
My other car is almost a classic (TVR) - for that I have a cradle for the phone - but I find it is always a compromise - the screen is never good in sunlight. As it is on the windscreen it gets glare easily. I also can't hear it with the roof down.
So it all varies really. The garmin has chosen stupid routes before. The phone (google maps) has on more than one occasion send me a fair few miles from where I dropped the pin (no idea why).
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