What Is Your Go To For POIs When Traveling?
Tue, 07/18/2023 - 10:30pm
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As posted above, what is your "go to" for POIs when traveling? Say you are looking for a gas station or a restaurant. Do you check your Garmin GPS first, Google maps or something else? Are there certain POIs from here that you regularly download to keep up-to-date on certain favorite things?
Even though I am dabbling my feet in the OpenStretMaps ecosystem, I think Google Maps has them beat for local POIs.
Mine
Some to cover gas fill-ups, meals, and other regular needs; some for help from unexpected issues; one to, with luck, tune the FM radio more quickly to NPR; and some just because. Since my GPS device links to the Garmin app on my smartphone, I can always search for something not on the list below and have the GPS offer a possible solution. I have found that the POI Factory link for Choice hotels is hit or miss so I'd search elsewhere in addition to using the custom POI.
Rest Areas Combined-USA (alerts set to 16,000 ft)
Kwik Trip
Culver's ButterBurger & Frozen Custard
Chase Bank Branches and ATM's-USA
MISTER CAR WASH Jan 06, 2023
Subaru Dealerships USA & Canada
Discount Tire & America's Tire
Choice Hotels
NPR Radio Transmitter Locations (from FCC Data)
North American Breweries
Frank Lloyd Wright Works
Stink Alert File (alerts set to 3000 ft)
Redlight and speed cameras (default POI Factory distances)
onboard Tesla
The onboard nav on my Tesla is not perfect, but quite good.
Just today when the place where I planned to eat lunch had a line out onto the sidewalk at 11:28 a.m., I spoke to my Tesla a request to show me a nearby nice place for lunch. It gave me a list of about six, which included a couple I'd used before and considered reasonable to my purpose, and one I'd never been to but wanted to try.
Most of the time "it just works".
As a consequence I've stopped using the dashtop Garmin GPS that was my constant driving companion in a succession of models for decades, though I do load my hiking model Garmin with OSM maps for overseas trips.
personal GPS user since 1992
What Is Your Go To For POIs When Traveling?
It looks like Tesla uses Google Maps as the base for the Tesla maps. Navigation and data about routes use a different source, a company called MapBox. There are multiple ways of using Google Maps on a Tesla, the easiest is probably searching for a place on Google Maps on your smartphone and sharing the location to your Tesla.
I will have to read up on MapBox.
it's
Google maps. Would there be any reason to use something else? Was this a Tesla owner question, if so don't have one
Wish Onboard Tesla but
The onboard nav on my Tesla is not perfect, but quite good.
Just today when the place where I planned to eat lunch had a line out onto the sidewalk at 11:28 a.m., I spoke to my Tesla a request to show me a nearby nice place for lunch. It gave me a list of about six, which included a couple I'd used before and considered reasonable to my purpose, and one I'd never been to but wanted to try.
Most of the time "it just works".
As a consequence I've stopped using the dashtop Garmin GPS that was my constant driving companion in a succession of models for decades, though I do load my hiking model Garmin with OSM maps for overseas trips.
An Onboard Tesla would be great but I check my Onboard Honda.
I look on Honda Link and send the POI to the Honda map.
Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)