{"id":3329,"date":"2011-01-04T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2011-01-04T15:38:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T20:38:58","slug":"gps-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2011\/01\/04\/gps-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My GPS is complaining that the maps are old. Last time it did this, I realized I got one free upgrade and that the maps were, in fact, <em>several<\/em> years old, so I took my free update. Now they&#8217;re a couple years out of date again.<\/p>\n<p>So here are the options I see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Illegally download the maps from BitTorrent or similar. They&#8217;re out there. But besides being illegal, this would really be a huge pain, as I&#8217;d need to juggle other programs to crack the copy-protection. Even discounting my ethics, this is just too much of a bother for me.<\/li>\n    <li>Buy the update from Garmin. Looks like it&#8217;s $49.99 and delivered online. (They also offer a download.) But my GPS is at least three years old at this point.<\/li>\n    <li>Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/site\/Garmin+-+n%26%23252%3Bvi+255WT+GPS\/9252854.p?id=1218068797020&#038;skuId=9252854\">a new GPS<\/a>. The linked one is $130 &#8212; only $80 more than the map update for my current GPS &#8212; and has a bigger screen and free traffic, which could actually be really helpful. (Hmm&#8230; It&#8217;s almost like Garmin is steering me down this path!)<\/li>\n    <li>Buy a new smartphone. I&#8217;m going to do this soon anyway. The downside to a GPS is that, being a high-theft device, I never keep it in my car, which means I only bring it with me when I think I&#8217;m going to need it. I bring my cell phone with me whenever I leave the house. Plus GPSs have the hassle of downloading map updates as I&#8217;m going through now. Plus there&#8217;s the hassle that it doesn&#8217;t have the Internet. A new smartphone would bring turn-by-turn directions and just use Google Maps, so the only updates would be when the app itself decided to request an update, and that would be free and quick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In conclusion, I wouldn&#8217;t buy stock in Garmin or other GPS makers. They work great right now, but I don&#8217;t see how they can compete when devices people already carry with them everywhere are starting to &#8212; without really trying &#8212; best the products they&#8217;re making.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My GPS is complaining that the maps are old. Last time it did this, I realized I got one free upgrade and that the maps were, in fact, several years old, so I took my free update. Now they&#8217;re a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2011\/01\/04\/gps-updates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}