On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 3:33:54 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-08-24 5:46 AM, sanne wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 24. August 2017 00:22:37 UTC+2 schrieb Dave Smith:
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> >> mile is not paved. If I try the direct road it will keep telling me to
> >> go back, or, as I go further west, to take a cross road south. It just
> >> refuses to acknowledge the existence of that four mile stretch of road..
> >
> > Is there a switch for private and/or toll roads on/off?
> > Maybe that's the problem.
> > Or the map software isn't up to date.
>
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> When it searches a route it will ask if I want to use a toll highway,
> but there are no toll roads anywhere near this, and it is a public road.
> It also warns of unpaved roads. The odd thing is that the range is on
> the unpaved portion of the road and the GPS recognized that part of it
> but does not acknowledge the the paved portion.
>
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> They are amazing devices but sometimes do odd things. I was once headed
> to a Christening at a church in the north end of Toronto. I set my
> destination for an intersection near the church and was given an ETA of
> 11:55, so about an hour and a half driving time from here. Traffic was
> light that day and I was doing at least 10 kph over the speed limit
> until I got to the highway and then I was doing about 20 kph over the
> limit most of the way. About half way there the GPS recalculated the
> ETA. Considering I was travelling at 10-20 over the speed limit I
> expected it to back up the ETA by 10-15 minutes. On the contrary. It
> added 4 minutes, making my ETA 11:59, and that was the exact time when
> I arrived at noted intersection.
Some programs receive real time information on the traffic flow because it's tracking cars over the roads. That's very useful data. Google maps does that.
My guess is that you'll probably notice an increase in traffic on side roads because GPS devices will calculate the best route possible. I used to have a secret route to Costco that went down a most horrible lane. These days, everybody is going down that road and I go the long way because it's probably faster. That's the lane this guy is walking down before it was "discovered."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RPTboE_eI