Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ You see? There's a very good reason for the adjuster on the sensor for the BlingMobile's compass. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets and Ducati Race Engineer. WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Maps, really, only work if you're not moving. GPS works when you're moving. As I've mentioned previously I learnt my lesson, gained experience etc - I use the GPS for approximate location finding, bearing and information on distance to location etc, or to follow the waypoints I've programmed in. I use a map to plan the route the waypoints are based on.
dwb says... Don't be so fucking wet. People have used maps for hundreds of years, while standing still and moving. It just requires application of what's known as a brain to make them work properly. You have a tank-bag with a map pocket,, you said you put the GPS in it. Use that to put a map in, take a good look at the route before you go and then a quick flick of the eyes every now and then just to make sure your on route, as you're moving. So how come all you cunts with GPS are the ones who are notorious for getting lost all the time?
Perhaps they still would be if they didn't have it! I was talking to a guy at work about GPS today and mentioned I'm going on the French trip in September. I tried to convince him (and myself) that getting lost is part of the fun but the truth is I just don't like. When I headed back from the Spainish trip on my own I bricked it when I got lost in Toulouse. I was mainly annoyed with myself for having fucked up at essentially the first hurdle but I still didn't like it. Talking with Champ about his trip across Australia puts it into perspective that at the end of the day if you get lost in France you ain't gonna die! I'll probably still get a GPS though )
Don't be so fucking narrow minded. People have used maps for hundreds of years, No, I have the GPS on a mount. Tank bag is a stupid place to have them. What happens when you reach the bottom of your map as a matter of interest?
It's only stupid if you have in in the map case and forget to zip it up. -- Mike SV650 UKRMMA#22 Skype: muddycat
Oh goody the annual maps vs GPS debate. Or alternatively you plan your route, your write down the road codes in a list and put that in your tank bag with map(s) as back up. I find it useful to try to memorise the main towns that you will pass en route so that's an extra source of reassurance from the road signs. I think I've maybe had to check a map on a French run about 3 or possibly 4 times. I don't consider that to be too bad when heading somewhere for the very first time. The most difficult aspects are always town centres where trunk road descriptions (numbers) can simply disappear. Still a bit of research and a calm head can deal with that too. They get the waypoints wrong, the route they design is thus incorrect and coupled with a gadget that is too clever for its own good they get hopelessly lost.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Colin Irvine Table. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets and Ducati Race Engineer. WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
I just kept pulling mine out of my shirt pocket for a squiz every few hundred yards to navigate my way back to TOG's place the other night. Got a fright this morning. My offer-smite took me with him on a shopping expedition to Hayes last night so I showed him how the voice navigation works on the way back to the Uni. Once there I just shut the PDA off. This morning I was running a wee bit late for a 9 am video- conference, and got to the Uni gate about 10 to; I heard a woman coming up behind me faster than I was walking so I slowed to let her through the gate first. As she passed me, my breast pocket suddenly piped up, "Please, turn right in - one - hundred metres!" The PDA had woken at 15 minutes to 9 to remind me of the meeting, it took a few minutes for the GPS to get a fix, and then the navigation programme started off from where it left off! -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD, DT175MX "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO# 003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Plus you need to keep track of declination changes dependent on your position anyway. -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD, DT175MX "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO# 003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".