AdamZ
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Just completed 2,750 to Almeria and back.
1) If you are going southern Spain get the latest version. There are a number of new (well within the last two years) motorways and they bisect and disrupt some of the N roads meaning you are led up the garden path and the poor little machine gets totally confused. Left me in some interesting places....
2) Why does the SPIII decide to:
a) Decide to recalculate the route just as you are coming to a complex junction
b) Zoom out to 40km view in mid town when it the track you are attempting to follow on the screen does not match road
c) Decide that it wants to put a little circle thing just when you need complex directions
d) Decide to lose satellite reception in the middle of a town 50 to 60 metres from your destination which depends on you making the correct turn or you will have to go round the entire town again to get back
3) Southern Spain only seemed to pick up two satellites with reasonable signals and about 3 others with fluctating signals
4) In maqpsource you can fiddle the speeds of different road types to push you down interesting paths but the recalculate on the SPIII does not have that capability.
5) Could not make the diversion work and get back onto track
6) Dont always follow the instructions but look at the map as occaisonally it gets left and right mixed up....
Actually, the beast did very, very well. 2775 miles on the GS and 550km in a hire car without the need of any hard copy map.
1) If you are going southern Spain get the latest version. There are a number of new (well within the last two years) motorways and they bisect and disrupt some of the N roads meaning you are led up the garden path and the poor little machine gets totally confused. Left me in some interesting places....
2) Why does the SPIII decide to:
a) Decide to recalculate the route just as you are coming to a complex junction
b) Zoom out to 40km view in mid town when it the track you are attempting to follow on the screen does not match road
c) Decide that it wants to put a little circle thing just when you need complex directions
d) Decide to lose satellite reception in the middle of a town 50 to 60 metres from your destination which depends on you making the correct turn or you will have to go round the entire town again to get back
3) Southern Spain only seemed to pick up two satellites with reasonable signals and about 3 others with fluctating signals
4) In maqpsource you can fiddle the speeds of different road types to push you down interesting paths but the recalculate on the SPIII does not have that capability.
5) Could not make the diversion work and get back onto track
6) Dont always follow the instructions but look at the map as occaisonally it gets left and right mixed up....
Actually, the beast did very, very well. 2775 miles on the GS and 550km in a hire car without the need of any hard copy map.