"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
09/02/2014 at 20:35 • Filed to: getoffmylawn
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"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
09/02/2014 at 20:35 • Filed to: getoffmylawn | 2
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At first I thought it was cool when my friend first bought one a super long time ago. I liked watching our progress and going to the satellite screen and knowing there were 9 satellites looking over us from space. It was a cozy feeling like I wasn't alone. Looking at our speed and constantly looking at the speedometer to compare how accurate it was was also a fun game. Knowing how long the trip is going to take and how many miles we traveled was cool as well.
I eventually bought myself a pretty decent tom tom and I thought I was cool. Except it takes way to long to type in an address and with our weird addresses in utahh it makes it even harder when I forget which is the house number and which is the street number.
I think I might just go back to maps you know like everyone cool uses. Pirates explorers Patton. Imagine the goonies without that awesome drawn map with skulls and puzzles riddles and crap! Imagine if they made it today but for some reason found an excuse to use a GPS it would totally suck!
Throw some maps in the car and head out onto the road. Everything can be seen at once and there is just something more satisfying about learning to use a map and having the opportunity to put those skills into practice. You can draw on them trace your finger along the road to see where you are going. Also I like folding them up its like a puzzle for some reason it is a cliche that they are hard to fold up but I guess I am a major dork and just enjoy taking my time to get that flap forward and the other one back looking at the creases to figure it all out. Also maps don't need batteries but a compass would be handy.
I will be shopping for maps and compasses on amazon.
Link for free state maps.
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GhostZ
> Frank Grimes
09/02/2014 at 20:40 |
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Which is why Google Maps is better than every GPS, because it can seamlessly switch from GPS mode to just showing you a plain goddamn map.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Frank Grimes
09/02/2014 at 20:45 |
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its a tool, like a hammer or butler* you just have to use it as such. You need the right kind of gps for starters, one that has info not graphics. A gps that lets you set the datum, or has topographical info and is handheld. For my last adventure, i printed out a usgs map, a usfs map, and referenced google earth for lat/long and all three sources were bad at one point, or at least were less than informative. If it wasn't for my gps though, we would have had a lot more backtracking on that spur road than we did, because i could see via the topo that we were headed the wrong way. Other the other side of the coin, we visited the grand staircase visitors center and there was a big sign on the window that said something like: caution, don't trust your gps! Mostly for people being guided via route guidance instead of the gps just reporting their location. Use them all for best effect.
*people aren't tools. Most people aren't tools.
Sn210
> Frank Grimes
09/02/2014 at 21:06 |
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my gps was trying to make me take i90 to get out of Boston the other night. I90 is the Mass Pike, a toll road that I had no cash for. I pulled over and told it to ignore I90. It rerouted, and told me to take "the mass turnpike". I punched that GPS bitch in the face.
Leadbull
> Frank Grimes
09/02/2014 at 22:30 |
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GPS systems are awesome, but it concerns me how so many people can't read a road atlas and use a compass. Most don't even have a road atlas.
shop-teacher
> Frank Grimes
09/02/2014 at 22:51 |
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GPS is not allowed in my vehicles. I have a map, a good sense of direction, and I enjoy navigating the old fashioned way.
Thanks for the link. I'll be using it.
deekster_caddy
> Frank Grimes
09/02/2014 at 23:05 |
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before you completely give up try Waze