For my recent visit to NJ I bought a brand new Garmin GPS having lots of bells and whistles.
While in NJ we decided to visit Statue of Liberty. I input the Statue of Liberty , New York and started following the directions by GPS. GPS was too slow or too fast for me so I drove about 2 hours and finally ended up in the middle of Manhattan. GPS announced arrive at Statue of Liberty , Ellis Island.
I did not know that you cannot drive to Statue of Liberty you have to take a ferry to go there. LOL. But at least GPS should be smart enough to take me to the ferry dock instead of middle of Manhattan.
I am learning some new short cuts to my office , back to my home , shopping centers and malls etc with the help of this gadget.
Any other GPS secrets I need to know ?
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You should put in the Longitude and Lattitude of the place if you do not have the exact street address............then it will give you exact Map of those coordinates.
Otherwise there could have been a business named Statue of Liberty or "Liberty Market" and or "Statue Shop".......U R Lucky it did not take you to KARACHI..........:)
^ Places of Interest should show up U R right................the GPS I use......it only has Airports and terrain have not used the City Map feature......never needed it!
The one I bought has a type ahead feature so it showed statue of liberty when i typed statue of lib , it brought up statue of liberty , New York, NY.
But it is asking for too much as Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island. My point is for something like Statue of Liberty it should have taken me to Battery Park where I could get a ferry ride to Liberty Island where Statue of Liberty is, instead of getting me stranded in the middle of Manhattan.
Oh well you never cease to learn. Now I print mapquest directions also so that in case if GPS fails I have a plan B.
Use of GPS devices must always be accompanied with a LOT of common sense. This is not a ding on you, by the way. This is a fairly common problem, when folks place complete reliance on an electronic device and forget to do personal orientation and don’t look at the signs and landmarks outside the window.
There are plenty of stories of users of GPS driving the wrong side of one-way streets or getting into accidents by blindly following the commands. Just be aware of what you are doing.
