On Aug 17, 2013, at 08:17 , Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently, I am using the Nuvi for navigation and Waze for traffic. > It is a workable system, but a couple of recent monster traffic jams > have me wishing for something better. >
I agree that the Garmin traffic services are completely worthless. My brother uses a navigation app on his iPhone called Navigon (who I think were recently purchased by... Garmin). Its traffic alert-and-avoidance seems to be pretty good. During a recent trek from Minneapolis to Cleveland it alerted us to some slowdowns... and kindly informed us that even due to the 20-minute delay, this was the best route to take. On our return trip, it warned us of a jam and took us off the turnpike for a 20-mile-long run on a parallel highway to get us around the problem. Seemed to work OK. You still have the "smaller screen" issue to contend with, but it's a perfectly usable navigation system. Routing-wise, it was otherwise nearly identical to the routes chosen by my Garmin, which we were running side by side. (The Garmin never told me about the traffic issues which we were alerted to by Navigon). -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
