I must admit I would be lost without mine. I do a lot of public viewings at schools, in areas I have never been to. I usually enter the school into the GPS, sometimes check the Melways just to get an idea of where I am going, and just drive there. It is particularly useful when coming home, I don't want to be checking out which little side street to take to get back to a main road, and in many cases I am not even familiar with the main roads. Once I get to a road I am familiar with, I usually ignore it and drive the rest of the way on my own. Without the GPS it would take a lot of time to find my way home and possibly risk an accident.
However, they are not perfect and a couple of times mine has navigated to the right street number, but wrong suburb
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Originally Posted by chrisp9au
Thanks Jason,
I was pretty sure it would have to do with different datum being used.
Must confess I don't have a GPS unit, and can't really understand why people spend so much money on them when all they need to do is read a map! That sort of money would buy a reasonable eyepiece!
Cheers 
Chris |