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The other day a bunch of us at work had an afternoon meeting away from the main office. The others wanted me to ride along but since I was leaving for home after the meeting I told them I would take my car. I had mapped the drive using Yahoo some hours earlier so I was prepared to go right to the place. The instructions were pretty simple, a short freeway ride and a few turns, that was it. Everything was fine until two of the streets that were supposed to intersect didn't. I drove back and forth through the area several times stopping at numerous red lights and for sure the intersection between the two streets I needed did not exist. I had to call the others and ask how they got to the location...embarrassing to the max. In the end I was 15 minutes late and even more embarrassed. Next time...I'm riding with them!
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Sorry you were embarrassed by something that was out of your control.
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November 03, 2007, 01:27:35 PM »
Mapquest is almost the same. 4 different cars were going to the same place, starting from different towns. Only 2 of us had good directions. The ones coming from the other side of the state had directions that made no sense so they were late. It's frustrating when you count on something to get you where you need to be and it doesn't.
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November 03, 2007, 02:08:35 PM »
The same thing has happened to me. Once I was driving my daughter to a classmate's house in our own town. Found the street on yahoo or google but when I went to drive to the street wasn't there. It was several miles away. Apparently the map was based on expected construction, not the real thing.
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November 03, 2007, 04:01:45 PM »
I keep thinking those GPS navs that stick to the window are kinda silly and I've resisted getting one. I played with one that belongs to a friend recently and it does seem to be a handy little device. Maybe it is time to break down and get one, it might have helped the other day.
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November 03, 2007, 06:02:11 PM »
I had trouble with 4 different services and don't really use them anymore. I just use them as a guideline and use a GPS unit. I have a HP iPaq that has GPS on it that doesa good job, but have to wait each time HP issues a updated map from TomTom. For some reason HP takes longer to do an update than TomTom does for their own seperate units. Maybe it is a code difference, but then again it is not costing me to update like it would to update each time for a stand alone GPS unit.
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November 03, 2007, 06:32:24 PM »
I have an el cheapo DeLorme USB receiver and laptop software that I bought a couple of months ago just to get familiar with the technology. By the time you drag out a laptop and mount the receiver on the front window you have a kludge in the front seat that is an accident waiting to happen. I've actually only tried it once in the car and just basically watched it update the map from work to home, looked at highway bearings, and found out how bad my speedometer calibration really is. The little all in one boxes are really the trick for doing this if you want it done right. I'm slowly coming around to the idea that it could be time to get one.
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Mapquest sucks. I always try to check a real map before going somewhere based on Mapquest
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Maybe Rand McNalley should make maps online.
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Diabetes - age 7
Neuropathy in legs age 10
Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
-glaucoma and surgery for that
-cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
- vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection
Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000
Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000
Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
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Google maps seem to generally be more accurate than Yahoo or MapQuest. And I think Rand McNally does have a map feature on its website...haven't used that one in awhile.
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Google Satellite maps are 4 years olds, I can pinpoint an aerial view of my house and it still doesn't show the new roads put in or the new houses. I would hate to be paying for that service and still be getting outdated information. I haven't looked for the Rand McNalley site yet, so I don't know how that one is.
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Diabetes - age 7
Neuropathy in legs age 10
Eye impairments and blindness in one eye began in 95, major one during visit to the Indy 500 race of that year
-glaucoma and surgery for that
-cataract surgery twice on same eye (2000 - 2002). another one growing in good eye
- vitrectomy in good eye post tx November 2003, totally blind for 4 months due to complications with meds and infection
Diagnosed with ESRD June 29, 1999
1st Dialysis - July 4, 1999
Last Dialysis - December 2, 2000
Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - December 3, 2000
Cataract Surgery on good eye - June 24, 2009
Knee Surgery 2010
2011/2012 in process of getting a guide dog
Guide Dog Training begins July 2, 2012 in NY
Guide Dog by end of July 2012
Next eye surgery late 2012 or 2013 if I feel like it
Home with Guide dog - July 27, 2012
Knee Surgery #2 - Oct 15, 2012
Eye Surgery - Nov 2012
Lifes Adventures - Priceless
No two day's are the same, are they?
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I prefer to go to my AAA and get my maps from there
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Quote from: goofynina on November 06, 2007, 05:24:41 PM
I prefer to go to my AAA and get my maps from there
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