On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:13:29 GMT, "Denis Marier"
wrote:

My concentration was on road coping with heavy traffic and hydro planning.

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As well it should have been.

One nice feature of the Delorme Street Map package on a laptop is that
it taks to you when a turn or critical juncture is coming up. It does
a surprisingly reasonable job for an inexpensive package, even telling
you what lane to be in for an exit.

The talking feature is very nice.
I have learned that it does not warn you fast enough to make a right of left
turn to exit a busy Parkway/Turnpike. This feature does not take into
account the traffic lane on your left of right.
My instructions to go to Mamaroneck NY from New Haven Conn. were to drive
south on HWY 95 and to take exist 19. When I saw exit 19 I took it. Then
all the instructions were erroneous. I stop at the Connecticut tourism
office. There I learned that I took the wrong exit. They told me that I
should have taken exist 19 in the State of New York just a few miles south
after exist 19 in the State of Connecticut. Anyway I am learning the ropes.


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:13:29 GMT, "Denis Marier"
wrote:

My concentration was on road coping with heavy traffic and hydro
planning.

====================

As well it should have been.

One nice feature of the Delorme Street Map package on a laptop is that
it taks to you when a turn or critical juncture is coming up. It does
a surprisingly reasonable job for an inexpensive package, even telling
you what lane to be in for an exit.

I used to live near that exit. There is another problem in that there
is an exit 18A and 18B if my memory is correct. The difference is
whether you go north or south on Mamaroneck Avenue.

Of course as Bob Dylan once said: "If you don't know where you are
going, any direction will do".

:-)

Right, I did not know the area, I should have known better:-(
As for exit 18A and 18B we used the paper map and made the right turn.
If you do not have any local road knowledge. It is a good thing to make sure
that you have a current update of the maps into your GPS. A paper map gives
me a more global vision of where I am going.

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ups.com...
I used to live near that exit. There is another problem in that there
is an exit 18A and 18B if my memory is correct. The difference is
whether you go north or south on Mamaroneck Avenue.

Of course as Bob Dylan once said: "If you don't know where you are
going, any direction will do".

:-)