On Dec 28, 9:20*am, wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:06:26 -0500, HK wrote:
You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?

No, but when you are not around town. But then again, a good road atlas
has done me well for years.

Me too till I got old. Now to read an atlas I have to pull over, turn
on extra lights as the interiors in both cars suck, and change to my
other higher powered reading glasses. If I can't remember all the
turns, I have to do it again, and again, and again....

wrote:
On Dec 28, 9:20 am, wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:06:26 -0500, HK wrote:
You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?
No, but when you are not around town. But then again, a good road atlas
has done me well for years.

Me too till I got old. Now to read an atlas I have to pull over, turn
on extra lights as the interiors in both cars suck, and change to my
other higher powered reading glasses. If I can't remember all the
turns, I have to do it again, and again, and again....



Get a seeing-eye dog and a helper. :}

Is Tom's Tom-Tom in braille? :}



--
George W. Bush - the 43rd Best President Ever!

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:24:28 -0800, justwaitafrekinminute wrote:


Me too till I got old. Now to read an atlas I have to pull over, turn on
extra lights as the interiors in both cars suck, and change to my other
higher powered reading glasses. If I can't remember all the turns, I
have to do it again, and again, and again....

I knew I was in trouble when I bought a Rand McNally with the BIG print.
Of course because of the print it lacked the detail. So, I still got
lost. When I leave "town", I now use a GPS puck with my laptop, just in
case.

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:20:13 -0000, wrote:

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:06:26 -0500, HK wrote:


You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?

No, but when you are not around town. But then again, a good road atlas
has done me well for years.

The odd thing is that you notice little things when driving around
town with it that you never noticed before.

It's an interesting experience.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:20:13 -0000, wrote:

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:06:26 -0500, HK wrote:


You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?

No, but when you are not around town. But then again, a good road atlas
has done me well for years.

The odd thing is that you notice little things when driving around
town with it that you never noticed before.

It's an interesting experience.


Yeah, like when the little female voice in the TomTom starts yelling at me
to take a left when no left exists. Or ordering me to make a U-turn, over
and over.

If I help like that, I would have brought Mrs.E.

(uh-oh!)

Eisboch

Eisboch

"HK" wrote in message
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You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?

I don't but occasionally they come in very handy. Trying to find a business
establishment in highly developed areas for example.

The factory unit in one of our vehicles has a feature whereby you simply
enter the telephone number of the business, store or whatever and the unit
responds with directions.

I've noticed that more often than not when someone is coming over to our
house for the first time, they simply ask for the street address. No more
detailed direction giving required.

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?

I don't but occasionally they come in very handy. Trying to find a business
establishment in highly developed areas for example.

The factory unit in one of our vehicles has a feature whereby you simply
enter the telephone number of the business, store or whatever and the unit
responds with directions.

I've noticed that more often than not when someone is coming over to our
house for the first time, they simply ask for the street address. No more
detailed direction giving required.

Eisboch




I suppose. If I am going somewhere I haven't been and am hazy about
directions, I use MS Streets and print out a simple paper map.

--
George W. Bush - the 43rd Best President Ever!

"HK" wrote in message
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I suppose. If I am going somewhere I haven't been and am hazy about
directions, I use MS Streets and print out a simple paper map.



Well, that's sorta a crude, elementary GPS system minus the real time
satellite data.

Eisboch

HK wrote:


I suppose. If I am going somewhere I haven't been and am hazy about
directions, I use MS Streets and print out a simple paper map.


Nice job, asshole! If you want to search for websites there's this new
thing called Google. Check it out.

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:50:56 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?

I don't but occasionally they come in very handy. Trying to find a business
establishment in highly developed areas for example.

The factory unit in one of our vehicles has a feature whereby you simply
enter the telephone number of the business, store or whatever and the unit
responds with directions.

I've noticed that more often than not when someone is coming over to our
house for the first time, they simply ask for the street address. No more
detailed direction giving required.

Might be some use Yahoo or other directions, like I do.
But what's nice is having a cell phone, calling your destination,
and saying, "Ok, I'm by the Shell station on Fripp, heading toward
a Walgreens. Where do I go now?"

--Vic