http://www.travelblog.co.za/travel/great-guide-cape-town/ Where travel is blogged Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:32:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.travelblog.co.za/travel/great-guide-cape-town/comment-page-1/#comment-3044 Brian Segal Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:16:07 +0000 http://www.travelblog.co.za/?p=244#comment-3044 Glad you enjoy GreatGuide. GreatGuide is aimed and focused at the tourist market. Our research shows that most of the time tourists want to go to destinations (eg Table Mountain) and not street address (ie Tafelberg Rd), which they often do not know. We thus decided to make GreatGuide destination focused. This is in contrast normal users need or want to go to friends houses, business addresses etc..and thus devices such as the Garmin is street address focused. We also tend to stitch with the makes we know or are use to, and thus Nokia phone users do not like Samsung and vice versa I can only assume that it might be fore these reasons that you would have found going to a Hermanus easier with the Garmin. All GPS navigator calculate direction on mathematical formulas using either on shortest distance or quickest time and thus would have suffered from the same “do U turn” when you deviated on to scenic route. We are however in the process of developing a new routing algorithm that will also do - Scenic Tourist…. And will keep you posted. Thanks GreatGuide team Glad you enjoy GreatGuide. GreatGuide is aimed and focused at the tourist market. Our research shows that most of the time tourists want to go to destinations (eg Table Mountain) and not street address (ie Tafelberg Rd), which they often do not know. We thus decided to make GreatGuide destination focused. This is in contrast normal users need or want to go to friends houses, business addresses etc..and thus devices such as the Garmin is street address focused. We also tend to stitch with the makes we know or are use to, and thus Nokia phone users do not like Samsung and vice versa I can only assume that it might be fore these reasons that you would have found going to a Hermanus easier with the Garmin.
All GPS navigator calculate direction on mathematical formulas using either on shortest distance or quickest time and thus would have suffered from the same “do U turn” when you deviated on to scenic route. We are however in the process of developing a new routing algorithm that will also do – Scenic Tourist…. And will keep you posted.
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GreatGuide team

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