Hema GPS+maps
rated 2/10: get a book of maps
We have a Hema GPS which operates through an Aerpro.
Neither is worth the cost.
For example: We have just been away for six days. Driving round the SW of WA. For three of those days the Hema was convinced that we were in Canberra.
Once, it showed us a route across Australia. Several thousand km to get to a place that was 20km in *real* distance. Mostly it simply failed to navigate.
Of course it's hard to know when the Hema is failing to navigate. It is so very slooooww. It seems to be dead, it is just "working" ha.
On the rare occasions when it knew where we were, we would try to navigate.
Tap the search icon. type in a location. Have you ever tried to use a touch screen in a moving 4WD? Very difficult.
Made more difficult by the device.
Perhaps you want to go to Dullsville. You start to type...
You type D -- and the Hema waits. Hides the keyboard. Appears to die. It waits. Then lets you type u... then dies again.
With patience, you may get to type an entire place name.
The most likely response is a demand to type at least three words for an address.
Three words? We never did find a combination of words that was an acceptable address.
So, we want to navigate to Dullsville. We don't have a street name. We want to get to the town. To see if they have a pub or a cafe.
We search for Dullsville. The only hope is, that the town has a Dullsville hotel. Or Dullsville oval. Or some other feature which is named for the town. Then the Hema is happy to navigate to that feature.
Just once, we were able to search for and navigate to a town.
When the GPS was working, we played with the Hema. Trying to understand it. To get it to navigate to where we really wanted to go.
Nine hours driving was not enough. We can now navigate to the Dullsville Community Centre. And hope that it is, in fact, in the town of Dullsville.
The Hema GPS is too complicated to use.
Our real success came when we stopped -- looked at a book of maps -- and followed the printed maps.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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"Knowing the direction doesn't mean you have to go." ...
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