2D or 3D view on your GPS - which do you prefer?

[mrTickle]

Im not a fan of the 3D view on my GPS... I find the 2D display is much easier for me to follow... its more in scale with where I actually am. The 3D feature is becomming common on just about all the newer GPS units so is it me? Which do you prefer?

 

[cookie]

i prefer the 3D view myself, which is a shame as my 2610 won't do it

i use the auto rotating top down view.

 

[HMR]

The 3D feature is becomming common on just about all the newer GPS units so is it me? Which do you prefer?

There are no GPS devices available that can show 3D. Obvious since there are no 3D maps available. If you want 3D you have to use Google Earth.

Some GPS devices can show a perspective view - a birds eye view of a flat, 2D, map. This is still 2D no matter what the ignorant GPS sales people call it.

Wich one is best then? A matter of taste. Seeing a landscape on TV is great in true 3D - as with Google Earth. But when navigating I prefer a flat 2D projection of the roads!

 

[STUBBS]

use the 2d version always, 3d does my head in

 

[beemerboy9]

I am training myself to be at ease with the birds-eye/3-D view.
Someone commented that men preferred the 2-D because they spent more time reading maps, whereas women prefer the 3-D view.
I don't think one should deduce anything from a preference one way or the other. (Please keep your thoughts pure!)

 

[John Armstrong]

As no one does a "real" 3D view then how can you prefer the "slant" 2D that's called 3D?

 

[BurnieM]

OziExplorer (on a PC or Pocket PC) does a 3D view

 

[Dellis]

use the 2d version always, 3d does my head in

Exactly!

 

[North]

I use the 2D map.

 

[HMR]

OziExplorer (on a PC or Pocket PC) does a 3D view

Yes - and so do Google Earth.

Looks nice. Is OziExplorer compatible with NMEA coordinate input? Can you use it as a "moving map" in a car when hooked up to a GPS?

 

[BurnieM]

Yes

Oops, only 3D on a PC

http://www.oziexplorer.com

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

i like the 3D version of my SP3 - a 2D version would be like a photograph

 

[chasr]

2D on the Quest, 3D on the i3