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Getting from A to B
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- Paper maps - 108 votes
- 58%
- GPS/SAT-NAV - 78 votes
- 42%
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I prefer the satnav as my sense of direction/navigation is useless. For example, I have to go to Guilford this afternoon and until a quick google search had no idea where it is. Getting there without the satnav will take me 10 times longer. As I've recently discovered though, it doesn't like the London in the City very much.
Latest edition Sat-Nav's are far better than paper maps, for the cost of an atlas that is updated once a year I get as many updates as I want during the year so always know when road layouts have changed, speed camera's added, etc.
Plus the added bonus of live updates on the move for roadworks and accident's means I may drive a few more miles but I dont end up stuck in traffic jam's for hours on end wondering what is happening and wasting precious fuel.
With the better makes of Sat-Nav you can also change the voice with a free download from the net. I keep swapping who is giving me the directions so it dosn't become boring or annoying.
Plus once set you do not have to touch the Sat-Nav again during your journey, with a map you have to make frequent stops to check where you are going as it is illegal to use an atlas while driving because you are not in full control of the vehicle.
Shame the voting system above is not recording votes!!
Plus the added bonus of live updates on the move for roadworks and accident's means I may drive a few more miles but I dont end up stuck in traffic jam's for hours on end wondering what is happening and wasting precious fuel.
With the better makes of Sat-Nav you can also change the voice with a free download from the net. I keep swapping who is giving me the directions so it dosn't become boring or annoying.
Plus once set you do not have to touch the Sat-Nav again during your journey, with a map you have to make frequent stops to check where you are going as it is illegal to use an atlas while driving because you are not in full control of the vehicle.
Shame the voting system above is not recording votes!!
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I use both - paper maps to see where I am going, and GPS to guide me there. Yesterday I had to make 20 kilometre journey through a part of France I was not familiar with. There must have been twenty road junctions and roundabouts to negotiate. I was alone, so could concentrate on the road without having to continually check my direction as the GPS was guiding me.