How dependent are you of your cell phone GPS?

[RAMd®d]

I don't use GPS a lot, but I do use it seemingly regularly, as stuff comes up, and it's mainly Maps, Apple.

Just as some people won't allow Alexa in da house, I won't let Google monitor/track my whereabouts.

Maps over all works quite well for me.

I've only had one instance where it gave me a runaround to get from Point B to A, even after getting from A to B quickly and correctly. That was years ago.

I was never a paper map snob. They represented the best that could be done in a primitive manner and time.

For years, I use a Thomas Guide, which was state of the art in paper maps for me.

A friend lent me a Garmin Street Pilot of check out, and it was amazing. It was a monster, but that was then, and it was still amazing. Now there's personal, portable GPS.

Paper maps are still useful, say for plotting a long trip. But once done, it's pixel over paper, until if and when a major course change is desired or needed.

[sekker]

Use GPS all the time but know I can often best using local knowledge.

Took a gps recommended route the other day that took me through a different part of town using a road I didn’t know existed. Was nice break from the routine and not longer.

[davester]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Being able to pick a route to beat a GPS/Map app is pretty advanced. It requires knowledge of how traffic patterns change during the day.

That's the whole point of Waze. It combines GPS positioning, accurate maps, and crowd-sourced instantaneous traffic updating. It changes your routing as it sees situations develop. The few times I've thought that Waze was leading me astray, I was wrong.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....they track you.....using GPS.......

[Filliam H. Muffman]

How to create a virtual traffic jam on Google maps...

Slowly pull a wagon of cell phones down the street!

[Racer X]

davester wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Being able to pick a route to beat a GPS/Map app is pretty advanced. It requires knowledge of how traffic patterns change during the day.

That's the whole point of Waze. It combines GPS positioning, accurate maps, and crowd-sourced instantaneous traffic updating. It changes your routing as it sees situations develop. The few times I've thought that Waze was leading me astray, I was wrong.
I can beat WAZE sometimes, mostly because it is based on average. Also it assumes that you travel the speed limit and that there isn't traffic. In some parts of the greater Seattle area, if you aren't 10 over on the freeway, things get dangerous. People get ANGRY. Traffic it doesn't know about really screws things up too.

But on surface side streets in Seattle, driving the 20mph speed limit isn't a good idea in many areas, in my opinion. I roll along at maybe 15 and assume everything that can move could start to move at any time.