OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? Anyone have any recommendations, positive or negative? We have four radio stations serving our area, all of which broadcast updates every 10 minutes. That is just fast enough to explain why I am stuck in traffic but way too slow to help me

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Bob W
On 17 Aug 2013, at 14:17, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? A bicycle. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Stan Halpin
On Aug 17, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? Anyone have any recommendations, positive or negative? ... Currently, I am using the Nuvi for navigation and Waze for traffic. It is a workable system, but a couple of recent

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Bill
On 17/08/2013 7:17 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? Generally I use my eyes and my excellent reflexes. This seems to serve me well. Having a large 4x4 also helps, if I get annoyed by traffic snarls I can go through ditches, jump curbs, etc.

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Alan C
- From: Daniel J. Matyola Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 3:17 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT: GPS Traffoc Services What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? Anyone have any recommendations, positive or negative? We have four radio stations serving our area, all of which

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Bob W
On 17 Aug 2013, at 15:06, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/08/2013 7:17 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? Generally I use my eyes and my excellent reflexes. This seems to serve me well. Having a large 4x4 also helps, if I get

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Rick Womer
- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:17 AM Subject: OT: GPS Traffoc Services What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road?  Anyone have any recommendations, positive or negative? We have four radio

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Boris Liberman
Waze here. Works 95% of the time. Though it gets confused at times. Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On August 17, 2013 4:17:46 PM Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? Anyone have any recommendations,

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Larry Colen
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:17:46AM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? Anyone have any recommendations, positive or negative? This will do you no good, but it will be of interest to the left coasters: http://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx The CHP

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread John
On 8/17/2013 9:17 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? Experience. I know what roads are going to effed up around here and what times it's likely to happen. I know which ones can be avoided by taking alternate routes which ones can't. For

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 17/8/13, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: What do people use for traffic avoidance on the road? Anyone have any recommendations, positive or negative? I navigate with an iPhone 4s mounted in a powered cradle high up on the dash, with Google Maps app displayed, 99% of the time

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 17/8/13, Steve Cottrell, discombobulated, unleashed: I navigate with an iPhone 4s mounted in a powered cradle high up on the dash, with Google Maps app displayed, 99% of the time in straightforward North-is-up plan view. The traffic function is fairly reliable although it does occasionally

Re: OT: GPS Traffoc Services

2013-08-17 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
We have that. We even have a website where you can check traffic cameras installed by the Department of Transportation at major interstate highway locations. All of those are just a bit too late to avoid the jam. Waze is quicker that that, but sometimes inaccurate because any user can input