Oh, Navigation, where are you?

September 23, 2004

We haven’t managed to resolve the sat-nav problem, for some reason the unit cannot find the satellite, we have had three new cables but this doesn’t seem to be the problem. We can programme in maps and get route directions but it wont talk or replot your position if you get lost. The store has given us a help desk number to call but the problem may be with the palm pilot itself.

My navigation skills are improving but still manage to take wrong turns, at least now I can get my way out. It sounds stupid but Stuart gave me a crash course in how to follow directions and drive and it has helped. I find the road markings and placements of street signs really frustrating. For some reason, the name of the street you are turning into is not facing you, so you have no way of seeing it as you turn your corner. The other thing is on other roads the sign is not clearly at the beginning but half way down the street. Because of the huge amount of traffic, once you are travelling in a certain direction it is near impossible to stop or turn around. Most roads are dual carriageway.