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At a place I've worked, there was an engineer who constantly came up with hare-brained schemes to make money on the sideline. At first, I would listen politely, then made some suggestions, but he kept talking about it even though I was not really interested. Eventually, another engineer pulled me aside, and privately told me "Watch this guy in his work. Do you see him do anything other than talk?".OMG! You must not be working anymore. You have WAY too much time on your hands LOL!
I then realized that he was taking Steve Jobs as a model, and was looking for a Steve Wozniak to do the work.
Anyone using a US smartphone in Europe or the UK to do map usage while walking in a city? Or GPS when driving a rental car?
It would be nice to have a cost effective solution while on vacation.
Like most visitors, I have never felt the need for more than a tourist paper map while wandering around European cities.
But, in 2007, as I planned to drive from Paris to the Loire Valley, in fact going all the way to the sea down the Loire River, I thought a GPS would be good to have. As I already had a Garmin (bought in 2005 and ridiculously outdated by now), I bought a European street map from Garmin on a CD. The map was then downloaded from a laptop to the Garmin.
It worked OK, but what was bad about this was that the GPS then had so little user-accessible flash memory that I could only download a small section of the map at a time. In my trip, a chore every night was to make sure that the area that I would be the next day would be downloaded to the GPS.
I cringed when I paid $120 for that CD. I think one can buy a GPS preloaded with European maps for that much now.
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