YO GEORGIANS! :)

[brucifer]

What's a gps??

GPS is the "global positioning system." It is the satellite technology that allows our smart phones and other computer devices to track our location and give us driving/walking directions. As a society, we are so dependent on GPS now that if all of those GPS satellites ever failed at once, the country would be in total chaos.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

GPS is the "global positioning system." It is the satellite technology that allows our smart phones and other computer devices to track our location and give us driving/walking directions. As a society, we are so dependent on GPS now that if all of those GPS satellites ever failed at once, the country would be in total chaos.

I'm an old trucker I drove across the USA before there was such a thing as gps. Some people don't know how to read a map they would be completely lost if they had to use their brain to figure out how to get somewhere heck some need it to get back home!!

 

[PapaChaz]

I still use folding maps.... **** kids and their gadgets.

kids and their gadgets?????? LOL I'm bout old nuff to be your father you lil whippersnappper........

What's a gps??

Global Positioning Device. You can get a hand held one that's great for not getting lost if you hike, or for finding your way back to a spot you've marked. They are absolutely NO HELP whatsoever if you happen to leave it in the car when you park and some doofus thought it would be funny to twist and change the trail signs if you're hiking to a water fall in NC.....ask me how I know

Paper maps for the win. They don't talk to you either.

yeah I don't like the lady talking to me. I was raised with all sisters, had all daughters, and I'm just not wanting yet ANOTHER female telling me where to go....

I used to use a TomTom years ago, and the GPS had me about 50 yards parallel to Martha Berry Hwy. There was no road there at all. It was funny! lol.

To be honest, I have not used my iPhone map going through Franklin and down to LaGrange since I know the areas well and don't need the help. However, it is rural between Carrollton and LaGrange, and I have had the phone signal drop, and I have Verizon which usually will pull a signal when the no other carrier will.

Maybe the signal has improved now, but on the safe side, printing a Google or MapQuest map may be a good idea. I'm just going by my own experience. I hope you and Missy make your connection.

I was just yanking yer chain.....LOL but I do believe the signal is a little bit better through there. I used to commute through there weekly when they were doing the four lane through there, talk about an ever loving disaster to try to keep a cell call going.....

 

[lilwildrabbit]

I used to use a TomTom years ago, and the GPS had me about 50 yards parallel to Martha Berry Hwy. There was no road there at all. It was funny! lol.

To be honest, I have not used my iPhone map going through Franklin and down to LaGrange since I know the areas well and don't need the help. However, it is rural between Carrollton and LaGrange, and I have had the phone signal drop, and I have Verizon which usually will pull a signal when the no other carrier will. 

Maybe the signal has improved now, but on the safe side, printing a Google or MapQuest map may be a good idea. I'm just going by my own experience. I hope you and Missy make your connection.

Lol tom tom I didn't know that a power line was a road my first one was a tom tom that thing got me into more trouble than it was worth

 

[lilwildrabbit]

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kids and their gadgets??????   LOL I'm bout old nuff to be your father you lil whippersnappper........

Global Positioning Device. You can get a hand held one that's great for not getting lost if you hike, or for finding your way back to a spot you've marked. They are absolutely NO HELP whatsoever if you happen to leave it in the car when you park and some doofus thought it would be funny to twist and change the trail signs if you're hiking to a water fall in NC.....ask me how I know

yeah I don't like the lady talking to me. I was raised with all sisters, had all daughters, and I'm just not wanting yet ANOTHER female telling me where to go....

I was just yanking yer chain.....LOL but I do believe the signal is a little bit better through there. I used to commute through there weekly when they were doing the four lane through there, talk about an ever loving disaster to try to keep a cell call going.....

have used both most modern ones are good but the most extensive ones are the trucker gps systems they give out a lot of info but cost an arm and a leg

 

[missy1971]

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Quote: Oh I couldn't find my way out of a wet paper bag without my smart phone and google maps app

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Oh I couldn't find my way out of a wet paper bag without my smart phone and google maps app

It would do you good to get a state map and then use your google maps pick out a town and learn to use a paper map if anything happened you would be lost and then have the knowledge to fall back on

 

[RoboDuck]

And for the love of God don't do something stupid just because the gadget said to do it. People will drive off a cliff if those things say to.

 

[missy1971]

Quote: Oh, now I can actually read a map, my Daddy was a trucker...and then later on he made sure I knew how to read one. My smartphone and google maps is just me being lazy...LOL

 

[brucifer]

Lol tom tom I didn't know that a power line was a road my first one was a tom tom that thing got me into more trouble than it was worth

Amen! to that! I remember one time punching in an address on my TomTom, and it took me way off into no-man's land. I was as lost as lost could be, and then the signal dropped. Come to find out, the TomTom was bringing to the business owner's house way out in the country. I never trusted that thing again. I used it, but with caution...