On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 8:40:07 AM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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I can drove cross country from CT to say, Sacramento, CA and never look
at a map. Just knowing some of the states and reading signs will get me
there. Where the gps is good is once in the city it will take me to 19
Park St easily. And it will help me find a hotel, hospital,restaurant,
etc.


I drove for over 30 years without the GPS and always got where I was going.
I do have to admit that I did take a few wrong turns. Think it was Danial
Boone that said he never was lost in the woods, but he was confused for 3
days one time.

The gps makes it a lot easier now. Instead of getting detailed directions,
just get the street address. My grandson got sick at school one day and
they called me to pick him up as they could not reach his parents. I live
about 30 miles from the school and had never been there or even within about
10 miles of the school. They started to give directioins, but I just told
them to give me the address and I punched it into the GPS unit. I did get
the phone number so I could call on the cellphone if I did get mixed up.
Drove right to the school.

Some of the gps units do have important things like the hospital in the data
base and also some other things that may come in handy.

When I was driving around in a large metro area in the ancient past BGPS. I would stop by a drug store and purchase a map book. The books are a lot easier to use than a folded map and the sections give a larger view often showing common landmarks. I was able to get around Los Angeles without getting lost. ^_^

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