New Sat-Nav needed for Europe - Help Please !!!!

[John_374564913]

Woody

I find my sat-nav to be conveniant for the following reasons
It tells me when I am on the motorway in europe well in advance what lane I need to be in when changing direction it also tells me what lane to be in advance when you have a split motorway junction if you know what I mean by a split junction.

When I went to germany last year we programmed in a campsite looking before hand at the map in the book it said dont take the first turning because it had a low bridge which caravans could not pass The sat nav recognised this and sent me to the second turning so I cannot fault the sat nav.
I can read a map but there is a diffrence between reading and understanding many years ago I had freind who could truly read a map such as Identifying rivers railways and the likes.
Unfortunatly I am limited to roads, towns and directions so for the timebeing I will stay with my sat-nav which I deam to be safer than me reading a map

John

 

[airsiggy]

We always use maps and satnav, at times you might not like the sat nav route so we might carry on our current road for example and then let the sat nav find a new route to our destination. A good example is when travelling down the western edge of Germany the sat nav tries to take you on a shortcut through France to cut a corner.

The real value of the sat nav is the final mile or so of your site when you may be in a continental town/city, you need plenty of warning of turns, etc as you don't want to overshoot with the van and have to do the 180 degree turn in crowded streets. Its also a useful monitor of your progress and informs you of traffic incidents. I suggest you have to be extremely fluent in all continental languages to monitor the traffic on radio !
I use a TT Go 750 which can take a 4GB card and will hold ALL of europe. Some TT european satnavs sell you europe but you can only have a limited number of countries loaded, you need a computer to change the countries loaded on the satnav