- Feb 2, 2021
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- Globestar 640dk
I've posted about this thing before and your answers were all very helpful. I then gave it and my brain a rest for a bit but tried using it again yesterday in familiar surroundings but in a different direction to test it.
1 in the outward journey i wanted it to give me cafes. It gave me one or two and missed all the ones in a small town half a kilometer to the west of the bypass we were on!
Two of the options it gave were on the otherside of a firth where the low mileage to them was obvious it thought the ferry was running. It only does so in June July and August! If I hadn't known I'd have gone more than ten miles out of my way instead of to a selection of cafes in the small town.
2 it said the only street leading to a beach carpark and a campsite was unknown for campervans even though there is campervan parking down there. i couldn't get it to route me to it.
3 on the way home I tried to put in cafes. It missed one that's been existent for 20years right at the roadside.
4 it came up with narrow road alerts when there weren't or which were side roads that were of no relevance anyway.
5 it said things like 'turn right then turn left' which was misleading as it should have said 2nd left or in half a mile turn left. I'd have gone all the way to an industrial estate had I not known.
If Garmin hasn't got access to the same level of information as Google what on earth are the benefits of this £500 machine. How on earth can I trust it outside my home area?
I didn't think i was a complete idiot with computers but I'm not finding it at all intuitive and the instructions are very thin. And more to the point, how do I sort the issues examples above?
Any help appreciated!
Thanks
1 in the outward journey i wanted it to give me cafes. It gave me one or two and missed all the ones in a small town half a kilometer to the west of the bypass we were on!
Two of the options it gave were on the otherside of a firth where the low mileage to them was obvious it thought the ferry was running. It only does so in June July and August! If I hadn't known I'd have gone more than ten miles out of my way instead of to a selection of cafes in the small town.
2 it said the only street leading to a beach carpark and a campsite was unknown for campervans even though there is campervan parking down there. i couldn't get it to route me to it.
3 on the way home I tried to put in cafes. It missed one that's been existent for 20years right at the roadside.
4 it came up with narrow road alerts when there weren't or which were side roads that were of no relevance anyway.
5 it said things like 'turn right then turn left' which was misleading as it should have said 2nd left or in half a mile turn left. I'd have gone all the way to an industrial estate had I not known.
If Garmin hasn't got access to the same level of information as Google what on earth are the benefits of this £500 machine. How on earth can I trust it outside my home area?
I didn't think i was a complete idiot with computers but I'm not finding it at all intuitive and the instructions are very thin. And more to the point, how do I sort the issues examples above?
Any help appreciated!
Thanks