November 13, 2009

Cloudy weather and my GPS

Filed under: General Living — Copa @ 2:49 pm

I’ve noticed that when I go somewhere and bring my GPS with me that if the weather is cloudy (or raining,snowing, etc) that the GPS unit often does not find the satellite signal.  That is the biggest gripe that I have about the GPS systems – they are not reliable.  I can’t restrict my travel to clear weather days!  And it is very annoying when I am driving somewhere and the maps on the GPS are obviously so outdated that they don’t even recognize roads that have been in place for at least the past 20 years!  The GPS I have is not 20 years old, the maps should be more recent than that!  I don’t want to spend the money to buy updated maps at this point because I have doubts that the updated maps will be any better than the ones already in the system!