GPS is buggy

[Rhino Chaser]

I rode along today with my wife and after slashing at her several times with the light saber app to prove once and for all how the iPhone is not only the paramount of coolness it is also extremely versatile. Apparently she did not believe that a light saber was a good protection device and refused to download it to her phone...and had the nerve to get annoyed with me.

Anyway, after I got bored with being a nuisance I decided to give the GPS a try in case we got lost driving across town.

The iPhone GPS must have a stick to roads type feature. There were several occasions where my really nifty little blue blip would suddenly detour down a side street, then briefly drift off that side street into never never land. Then suddenly, like my dog sheepishly looking at me the scurrying to its water dish after getting caught eating out of the kitty litter box, it would shoot back to where it was supposed to be--the road I was riding on....not a very reassuring 1st test.

[Wondermonkey]

I don't have your fancy GPS system. But is it possible you're driving all over the place and just not realizing it? Because you're drunk?

[KEEZY]

I read about this in one of the reviews. It seems to be that way, which is fine most of the time (that's what roads are for). I wonder what happens when you're in the middle of the woods though... Does it just cling to the closest road, even if it is a few miles away?

[Wondermonkey]

Originally Posted by KEEZY

I read about this in one of the reviews. It seems to be that way, which is fine most of the time (that's what roads are for). I wonder what happens when you're in the middle of the woods though... Does it just cling to the closest road, even if it is a few miles away?

I think Epyon said he used it whilst hiking. I'd love to know, because I think eventually I'll upgrade.

[Epyon MX]

I was using it hiking and it'll break off from the road, but then again, I was in a park so it may allow that in those areas.

Rhino, GPS in every system is buggy. I've gotten a few errors like you, but every one is like that. The GPS in my friends $65,000 Lexus goes off-course by over a mile when he's in Chicago. :P

[Wondermonkey]

Originally Posted by Epyon MX

I was using it hiking and it'll break off from the road, but then again, I was in a park so it may allow that in those areas.

Rhino, GPS in every system is buggy. I've gotten a few errors like you, but every one is like that. The GPS in my friends $65,000 Lexus goes off-course by over a mile when he's in Chicago. :P

Yeah, when I took our dash-mounted GPS with me on the train (just to see how fast it goes) it didn't respond well to being on the train tracks. If there was a close street, it would just to it until it decided that we really weren't there.

By the way, the train got up to 98 that day.