Best GPS unit?

I really don't care what you buy or use if you decide to use a GPS for routing. I do not push the RM here. I am simply here to provide support on the other thread and to resolve any issues.

I posted on this thread to try to clear up some misconceptions about maps on a GPS.


You expect perfect right out of the box. You will never get this. Maps are and never will be 100% at any given point in time.

 

I am a Truck Driver. The reason i tell other drivers about this product is to let them know there is other options besides Rand Mcnally out there. Unfortunately you seem to have an issue with a better Truck Navigation unit then your buggy RM. If you have a problem with me telling others then maybe you need to build a better unit? Otherwise go back to your RM room and try and listen to the problems and get em fixed for once. #### after how many versions and yet yall still can't fix it?

 

Gray matter?

 

Brain

 

I am using rand mcnally since they map out and make the road atlas we all use

 

Don't rely solely on this. It will hang you.

 

The name is all the two products have in common. Unfortunately, the software's maps aren't nearly as reliable as the atlas.

 

Stile, we get it. You want a perfect map system. This will never happen since we have humans doing the data flow in all the DOT departments and the HERE company. Maps take time to update. An update will never happen overnight.

I mentioned how the maps are build into the system and that is the way it is for all GPS, if car or truck.

Garmin uses the HERE also, so any incorrect maps will also be on that unit. Cobra uses TeleAtlas. HERE and TeleAtlas are different in what is correct and what is missing. One might have an update to a road while the other does not.

Use what is available, keep current on updates to the software and make sure you have the latest maps as they contain all the current data to data. Not saying all is correct or not missing.

If you see something that is not right then by all means let me know so I can get it to the right department to be updated.

Maps from 2008 to current have come a long way for the Truck GPS. The data still has long way to go to contain all the current restrictions placed on by each state, overpasses, roads, etc.

 

Been in use about 3 yrs now... had a cobra before rand.. that was when cobra had a gel screen.
it didnt have truck routes.. the user had to enter the route.. everyone else seemed to like garmin at the time

tand had its pros and cons but its a nice tool