Please Tell Me That Im Not The Only One

[nailit]

to get lost using a sat-nav or google maps (on phone)

PLEASE!!!

Sat-Nav sent me to wrong part of city, Google map on phone seemed to be lagging behind by a 1/4 of a mile at least. Had a **** of a day trying to get from place to place.
I'd never make a taxi driver, thats for sure. Parts of my own city I never knew existed...

[JimF]

Like any computerised device, as satnav is only as good as the data it is being fed and the instructions it's been given. This means that they can get out of date very quickly if they aren't clever enough to update their maps. Avoid using postcodes as the destination especially once you get out of the city; use GPS co-ordinates instead. Whenever I'm going to somewhere new, I always "drive" the last few miles on Google Maps the night before. It's amazing how much that helps.

[nailit]

Got scuppered at Limekiln as well Togo. Oil spill.

[jno]

there was a well known case in the early days when two busloads of kids heading for Hampton Court ended up in a very narrow alley of the same name near Highbury & Islington station. (Google Hampton Court N1 and you'll see Henry VIII could barely have squeezed into it.)

[nailit]

Thanks jim
//Avoid using postcodes as the destination//
Yes, I figured that one out last year when my phone told me that Id arrived at my destination (should have been a church) and all I could see for miles was fields of cows.
Unfortunatly, often all I'm given is a generic place with a post code...

[JimF]

Find the destination on Google Maps and then take a note of it's geographical co-ordinates. There are several standards, so chances are your satnav will understand at least one of them.

[Togo]

Limekilns. Had a girlfriend once from up there, she was quite caustic if I remember. I think she used to empty the kilns after the burning. No protective clothing either. My she had smooth skin.

[pixie374]

Buy a map.... streetmaps are easier than a satnav

[Bazile]

Is your sat nav up to date ?

[nailit]

Should be Baz, its less than 4 month old.

[Tilly2]

She wasn't a saggar maker then Togo?

[nailit]

A bottom knocker I believe Tills
(God only knows what the rest of AB think of Stokies...its a different lingo altogether)

[Togo]

Well she did sag a little Tills, probably due to the 5 pints of bitter after a shift shovelling out a hot kiln. I decided early on not to cement our relationship. Right after the incident with her hot shovel and the ice cream man. Walls I think it was ... the ice cream that is.

[alavahalf]

Nailit .. even though your sat-nav is only four months old, it may well need updating. It could have been sat on a shelf for months before you bought it.

[Togo]

Mind you she was not half as "interesting" as the flint grinder from Furlong Lane. By heck she was a sharp one. Her nose looked like a stone age arrowhead and she was so thin she looked like a tomahawk. With her clothes off she looked like an emaciated totem pole ... what with all the tattoos and scars. Best partner I ever had playing All Fours up at the Roebuck. She could cut the cards in a flash. We separated because I could not resist striking my matches on her when a wanted a ciggie. Just as well she was ruining my mohair suits and cashmere jumpers.

[DTCwordfan]

its when you follow it blindly and end up tipping over a Cornish quay and into the mud.drink or (ii) get your truck or large van well and truly stuck in a Devon lane when we should get worried.

[jourdain2]

Re. O.P. I'm sure you're not. Personally, I wouldn't have a sat. nav. - been in cars with people who have one. Someone lent us one once, certain that we'd love it --- we couldn't get it to stay on the dashboard, so abandoned it! Quite happy with decent maps and an A-Z if in a city or town.
At least you've learned some new parts of your own city, nailit. :)

[Tilly2]

I'm lost now.

Goodnight.

[jno]

turn left at the second door, Tilly

[eve1974]

I Could get lost in a cul-de-sac ... with or without a satnav!

Even going to the loo in the wee hours is a risk I’d get lost!