Southeast Alaska Charts Wanted

What's with Garmin? Ten years ago friend and I found them largely unreliable for car trips. When I first got my boat (came with Lawrence) people on line here were very happy with Garmin.
 
Not sure what you mean by being "unreliable". I have found occasionally they will have a thru road, with a gate over it, or more like a goat trail...But I have used Garmin in my vehicles as long as Garmin has been around. Seem about as good as anyone--maybe Google maps is better for the precise location. Garmin gives my house as about 100 yards down the street. But Garmin marine GPS when inside the house, shows what room you are in. I would say spot on with in 30' 90% of the time. Now charts may be off....But that is true for all cartography. Some surveys were done 150 years ago, and not updated much. I have found all of my Garmin units to be reliable.
 
Misdirections to the Getty museum, so long wrong that there was a sign on the road saying it did not go to the Getty. Putting us on a 40 mile unpaved road in Death Valley (and other places). Tried to find a VA hospital with a variety of labels - none worked. Fortunately the semi-smart phone did. Other people may have had better luck. I did catch all the errors in a timely manner.
 
The Getty is impossible to get to anyway! :) But on some back roads the Garmin is wrong--but for are Rand McNally--Never used Tom Tom... Waze has gotten us routed around accidents with good routes, and agree the Apple, Google Maps are generally good.
 
thataway":1uzx16y2 said:
Jay's post reminded me that we had navigated the entire coast of Yugoslavia in 1984 using a road map. The scale was accurate. We knew Lat and Long of several points, scaled it out for the whole map. We also had a guide book written in German (which neither of us speak or read well --to the extent that one evening we ordered "horse steaks" :cry: We went slowly and relied on eyeballs and digital depth sounder.
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I feel like I should be doing ethnographic research into this c brat culture. I think I am generally An adventurous person sometimes, until I sit down to casually read a thread on paper charts and gps and it takes me to the deck of a boat holding a road map in pre-war Yugoslavia.
 
SnowTexan" :shock: I feel like I should be doing ethnographic research into this c brat culture. I think I am generally An adventurous person sometimes said:
In 1984, Yugoslavia was certainly a very interesting place. We didn't see any of the ethnic divisions which lead to the war. However it was definitely a communist nation, and we were very aware of its effect on the populace. Our children were our entry into their culture. I was also amazed by the amount of smuggling of goods going on along the coast.

There was virtually no pleasure boating among the inhabitants. We met people who would save up their fuel coupons for fuel for a week's vacation for a 10 hp Diesel engine in a old converted wooden fishing boat.
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