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20/7/2024 at 6:53pm
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I mostly use 'Magic Earth' sat nav app on my phone, it'll verbally NAG you in a thousand and one ways if you set it to! - all sorts of warnings if you want.
Free to use, maps can be downloaded to phone, so don't need to use precious/expensive data when abroad and doesn't stop navigating when the phone signal disappears, set the speed to MPH or KPH as desired. Vehicle can be set to car-caravan/MH (Truck) with dimensions, weights, speed restrictions, etc. to customise routes. Integrates into car system if possible and operates just as onboard system does, turning off radio to give directions, warnings etc.
https://www.magicearth.com/
You don't say what vehicle you have, but mine has an electronic display dash which can be set to MPH or KPH, and 'reads' road speed signs and pings warnings at you if you exceed them, but that needs setting to 'on' on the dash menu! You may have the same.
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21/7/2024 at 1:00pm
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Quote: Originally posted by DaveS1 on 21/7/2024
Just road and town name signs and a map. What else do you need??
Sometimes use the satellite option when getting close to final destination.
DaveS1
I can think of a host of things you may need! I've looked at countless routes that have potential for too narrow roads, too low bridges, too steep hills, no where to stop for a break, no where to refuel where you can physically drag the caravan through, etc. etc.
Often found that a bit of research (and often the route picked by a sat nav) shows that it's better to approach a campsite from a less than obvious direction, even though greater distance, because of more suitable roads! I'd rather drive further on larger roads than mile upon mile of single track roads with potential for oncoming traffic and passing problems. Straightforward A-B route planning on a map alone really is making life potentially very difficult for yourself, if not in some instances disastrous! You can certainly use a map for many sections of motorway and A-road on the assumption of safe and unchallenging passage, but anything else brings risk.
I've found most campsites are in relatively remote places, and accessed by some less than ideal roads, and many a campsite has been dismissed from contention as just too risky/hard to access (with a large caravan) in my research. I'm no shrinking violet when it comes to where I'm capable of towing the caravan, and done plenty of Welsh/Devon/Cumbria/Peak District lanes, but REALLY want to know what I'm setting myself up for, and a plain map doesn't do that! Maybe it's just me that seeks the more out of the way places, I'd certainly be inclined to shy away from sites that were 'just off the motorway' or in the 'environs of large towns' etc.
It probably doesn't help that I rarely have a passenger to map read whilst I drive, so the moving map with exact location marker and wittering instruction of a sat nav is really beneficial to me.
Sat Navs are flawed for sure, and need a bit of back up research, but back to the days of only having an old fashioned map to guide you, not for me thank you! - and yes, I'm WELL old enough to have had no choice but to use maps when driving, and I don't want to go back to those days, even though I'm more than capable of reading maps properly!
When not towing the caravan, I'm a lot more sympathetic to maps, and have driven a solo car down some barely passable tracks in Spain and on Greek Islands, but with the caravan, give me some higher technology!
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