Sat Nav for caravanners
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Or not reading the road sign that tells him how wide or how narrow the road is, and being a robot and going where the device tells him when he should learn to read the road signs.
funny enough the last truck driver that did that in our village managed that all by himself. No sat nav involved.
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and how much one of us relies on one and the other doesnt
You are now resorting to making things up I'm afraid, you are clearly desperate to have the last word so go ahead and feel free as none of this tit for tat nonsense is helping the original poster who asked the question.
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I'm going to buy a sat nav that I particularly want to use when touring with the caravan. Each issue of the Club magazine advertises the Avtex Camper Premium Caravan Club Edition sat nav @£299.00. Is this the best to go for? I'd appreciate any feedback on this and/or what other sat navs caravanners use. Thank you, Ian
Go for a tom tom or garmin they are cheap do the same thing. Just look at the road signs telling you about obstructions road widths and low bridges.
If going on a caravan club site follow the instuctions in the sites book for the last bit of the journey
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The tit for tat prattle fails to point out the safety aspects of a sat nav. Some might say they are a distraction but I think this is far outweighed by allowing the driver to concentrate more on the road because he is relieved of the strain of looking at which way to go or wondering which lane he should be in. A glance at a sat nav map is no worse than a glance into a rear view mirror and the odd directional instruction is certainly far less distracting than listening to the radio and gives you ample warning of a change of direction. For a solo driver sat navs are most definitely the must have.
As for being sent down inappropriate routes or the journey not being timed correctly, you can minimise this by firstly having a sat nav to match the outfit and secondly by setting it up to match the vehicle and its speeds.
peedee
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The tit for tat prattle fails to point out the safety aspects of a sat nav. Some might say they are a distraction but I think this is far outweighed by allowing the driver to concentrate more on the road because he is relieved of the strain of looking at
which way to go or wondering which lane he should be in. A glance at a sat nav map is no worse than a glance into a rear view mirror and the odd directional instruction is certainly far less distracting than listening to the radio and gives you ample warning
of a change of direction. For a solo driver sat navs are most definitely the must have.As for being sent down inappropriate routes or the journey not being timed correctly, you can minimise this by firstly having a sat nav to match the outfit and secondly by setting it up to match the vehicle and its speeds.
peedee
To be fair I think these advantages of using one, particularly when driving solo were indeed pointed out by me and possibly others earlier in the thread. Sadly I think some of the information actually relevant to the original question got a bit lost in the
background noise about whether to use a sat nav is a good idea or not. This not being what the original question was about at all. Such is the way sometimes with Internet forums.it reminds me of another forum I visit when somebody comes on asking for help on receiving tv pictures whilst boating. Somebody inevitably pops up and scoffs 'why do you want to do that tv is rubbish anyway' - no help to the original poster what so ever.
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The tit for tat prattle fails to point out the safety aspects of a sat nav. Some might say they are a distraction but I think this is far outweighed by allowing the driver to concentrate more on the road because he is relieved of the strain of looking at
which way to go or wondering which lane he should be in. A glance at a sat nav map is no worse than a glance into a rear view mirror and the odd directional instruction is certainly far less distracting than listening to the radio and gives you ample warning
of a change of direction. For a solo driver sat navs are most definitely the must have.As for being sent down inappropriate routes or the journey not being timed correctly, you can minimise this by firstly having a sat nav to match the outfit and secondly by setting it up to match the vehicle and its speeds.
peedee
I would agree entirely with the above post. Although there are two of us we always set the sat nav if we do not know the route. However, as well as the above I always review the sat nav route against other media, such as paper and street view, to make sure
I am 100% happy with the route it proposes. Then reject any suggested re-routes for traffic delays once we are driving. If there is a delay you just have to sit in it unless you can sort it out by other means, as almost certainly if you accept the satnavs
reroute, it will take you on inappropriate roads.0 -
The tit for tat prattle fails to point out the safety aspects of a sat nav. Some might say they are a distraction but I think this is far outweighed by allowing the driver to concentrate more on the road because he is relieved of the strain of looking at which way to go or wondering which lane he should be in. A glance at a sat nav map is no worse than a glance into a rear view mirror and the odd directional instruction is certainly far less distracting than listening to the radio and gives you ample warning of a change of direction. For a solo driver sat navs are most definitely the must have.
As for being sent down inappropriate routes or the journey not being timed correctly, you can minimise this by firstly having a sat nav to match the outfit and secondly by setting it up to match the vehicle and its speeds.
peedee
To be fair I think these advantages of using one, particularly when driving solo were indeed pointed out by me and possibly others earlier in the thread. Sadly I think some of the information actually relevant to the original question got a bit lost in the background noise about whether to use a sat nav is a good idea or not. This not being what the original question was about at all. Such is the way sometimes with Internet forums.
If I did miss it, and I don't think I did, there is no harm in emphasising the point. I do agree with your last point though about sticking to the point, at least in some part of a post. However, I do think even off topic misconceptions should not go unchallenged.
peedee
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I have a CC Snooper. I could have bought a TomTom much cheaper but my one has all the preferred routes to sites programmed into it, and gets regular map updates. It gives me a predicted time of arrival which is constantly updated whilst I drive and so
is never out by more than about a minute. If I go wrong and miss a turn it takes it about five seconds to re-calculate the route. If yours takes longer then it might be an idea to try and re-site your GPS antenna, and finally I just don't bother to turn
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I'm going to buy a sat nav that I particularly want to use when touring with the caravan. Each issue of the Club magazine advertises the Avtex Camper Premium Caravan Club Edition sat nav @£299.00. Is this the best to go for? I'd appreciate any feedback
on this and/or what other sat navs caravanners use. Thank you, IanThere is a similar discussion on another forum going on
>here< which you might like to read.peedee
a really useful link; thank you. ian
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There are lots of features to consider when buying a SatNav, Ian.
I think the most important is the clarity of the verbal instructions; can you hear them and do they make sense? A large screen can present a more information. You shouldn’t be spending much time looking at it but, when you do, you want to be able to see that detail and not a reflection of something else. As they become more feature-rich it can be difficult to provide all those facilities in an intuitive way. Look very closely at the user interface and how it all sits together. Ideally, it should be intuitive. You should not have to burden your mind learning unnecessary ‘logic.’ The routing algorithm is something you’re unlikely to be able to assess until after you’ve used it. Although most use the same mapping data, it’s surprising how differently they can be used and the amount of additional data can vary, too. Don’t be impressed by the amount of data; the more there is, the more difficult it is to keep it up to date and it’s more likely to be inaccurate. If POIs are important to you, look to see how easy it is to add and maintain them. List what’s important to you and then look to see how well different solutions meet those requirements best.
As with so many things, the world is full of folk confused by opinion rather than fact. Few reviewers will have used many different devices seriously enough to draw a decent comparison, so treat whatever they have to say with caution. My “best” may not be the same as yours but, in the case of SatNavs, all the ones I have tried so far have fallen short of what I had expected to be delivered so I’m unable to offer a recommendation anyway.
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Don.t waste your money on Avtex Camper Premium Caravan Club Edition sat nav @£299.00. A Tom Tom start 25 does the same at under £100.00 Buy a decent map and Ordance Survey 1:50.000 of the area's you are going and do a google earth search of the roads you are using.
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We have always had Tom Tom Sat Navs and have a Satrt 60 at the moment. They have never let us down. With all Sat Navs you have got to use Common Sense as well as a Map. If you keep to Motorways for your main journeys you cannot go wrong and follow the
sites directions for the last few miles.DianneT
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Buy a decent map and Ordance Survey 1:50.000 of the area's you are going and do a google earth search of the roads you are using.
Or better still pop into your local library and borrow. It's very rare that the 1:50000 map I want is not on the shelf!
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