XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: noemail@none.invalid.com   
      
   On 9/23/2016 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   
      
   > No turn by turn needed or wanted.  I rarely listen to instructions   
   > from anyone and certainly don't plan to start doing so with   
   > instructions from a machine.   
      
   I actually find the Google Maps app to be quite useful. I don't blindly   
   follow it of course but it's great for comparing routes. Also for   
   warning about upcoming road changes. And when I miss a turn it   
   recomputes and still gets me there. Also, telling me which lane to get   
   in for an upcoming freeway change is helpful. On a recent trip to   
   Disneyland I took a shorter route than Google suggested. Turns out one   
   of that route's roads was closed and Google knew it and that's why her   
   route was longer. I should've listened to her. Cost me an extra hour.   
      
   > Incidentally, anyone trying to use a GPS   
   > map device to find a usable route to my house is sure to get lost.   
      
   Mine too. She always tries to bring visitors in one of our back gates   
   that won't open for them. That's when I get a call.   
      
   > There are roads on the maps that don't exist which the mapping   
   > programs never fail to use as the preferred route.   
      
   Yep. More than one tourist here has tried to take his big car cross   
   country on a tiny dirt road because she said to. Then they get stuck in   
   the mountains with no cell service. Occasionally in our brutal summers   
   that turns out to be a fatal mistake.   
      
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