i agree it's iffy. last week my wife and i where in palm springs, ca and i decided to use it for the first time to find our hotel (i have a garmin 730 that i usually use). it didn't even come close. i still think my droid kicks a** like donkey, though. :i-m_so_happy:
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Google Navigation - Iffy?
- Thread starter ljholland
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I used it to travel up 295 to Baltimore. It wanted me to go off the highway onto a side road for a couple miles and back onto 295.
It's crap....Use the map mode look at the route before you leave and you won't have a problem
Navigation
Navigation tends to draw a straight line between your start and end points and then calculates the route. Hence, the odd instructions. I've had a few odd ball instructions, but they seem to occur before I get a satellite link. I've also found that it picks as a start location some place I've been in the past rather than my current location, but that's easily corrected.
Obviously, someone needs to look at a stand alone GPS and figure out how to program Navigation so that you can force it to use highways, fastest, shortest or other routes
Navigation tends to draw a straight line between your start and end points and then calculates the route. Hence, the odd instructions. I've had a few odd ball instructions, but they seem to occur before I get a satellite link. I've also found that it picks as a start location some place I've been in the past rather than my current location, but that's easily corrected.
Obviously, someone needs to look at a stand alone GPS and figure out how to program Navigation so that you can force it to use highways, fastest, shortest or other routes
Today, I was on my way to Bel Air, MD and had extra time. I decided I would stop at the Best Buy in White Marsh. So, out of curiosity to see which exit it would want me to take on WM Blvd, I used voice nav to "navigate to best Buy". It took me right to it. ON I 95! Told me I had arrived at my destination as I passed it on 95. 
Today, I was on my way to Bel Air, MD and had extra time. I decided I would stop at the Best Buy in White Marsh. So, out of curiosity to see which exit it would want me to take on WM Blvd, I used voice nav to "navigate to best Buy". It took me right to it. ON I 95! Told me I had arrived at my destination as I passed it on 95.
I live right around there and yea I know what best buy your talking about. That best buy is like 30 yards off from the I95 so I guess I could see that lol
i want to agree with the OP that yes the nav does send me on weird routes. however, i dont understand what "navigate to erin at home" means. my voice recognition works well, and i can navigate to "home" not "something at home"
one time in particular though, i had instructed it to navigate me to walmart and it took me to literally the middle of nowhere and said i had reached my destination in the middle of a country road. i have a major problem with the way it picks the routes.
one time in particular though, i had instructed it to navigate me to walmart and it took me to literally the middle of nowhere and said i had reached my destination in the middle of a country road. i have a major problem with the way it picks the routes.
Neither my Droid nor my stand alone GPS understand "home" for me. Neither understand my wife's name. I put my home address labeled as a word I picked at random and it works every time to get me home from strange places.
GPS needs an option to choose/avoid road types. When I go from the south to the north of my city it routes me off the interstate (best route) too early every time. Since I have a basic idea where I am going, I look at the route first. But it has sent me door to door across the country with no issues.
GPS needs an option to choose/avoid road types. When I go from the south to the north of my city it routes me off the interstate (best route) too early every time. Since I have a basic idea where I am going, I look at the route first. But it has sent me door to door across the country with no issues.
I left off my newest GPS pet peeve. Google is an awesome search engine, it is so smart if I misspell something it gives me choices "did you mean". But if I put in a street name "River Oaks" instead of "Riveroaks", it routes me to "River Oaks" in a nearby city, or the wrong area of the right city, instead of giving me an option for both. I have to be very careful when I have a name that could go as 1 or 2 words.
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My husband and I just joined the "Droid" world - Keep in mind it is hard to teach an "old" dog new tricks! We use to have VZ Navigator, which my husband used daily because it had a "traffic" section that not only told you there was traffic but told you what was causing it and how long before it cleared up. He is now very frustrated with google maps because it does not do this?? or does it? Is there an app that will take care of this for him??
Another (probably stupid) question - what is rooting and why??
Thank you for whatever help I can get.
Another (probably stupid) question - what is rooting and why??
Thank you for whatever help I can get.