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LOL! :D

You can set them to avoid U-turns (etc.), good if you have a motor home.

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Ah! That's another slight gripe - I've got it set to avoid those but occasionally it suggests one. Actually it can't be that occasional, it's happened often enough for my kid to copy the British Garmin lady - I hear him playing with his toy cars saying "Where possible, make a u-turn" :D

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LOL... throw him off stride by changing the voice to US-English.... then call him a hillbilly when he imitates her. ;)

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Even better change it to the Ozzy Osbourne voice as that makes me giggle so much! "At the end of the road, cross the f***ing roundabout" ;)

Not good when you have kids in the car though :eek:

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The US voice should say.... ya'll can turn left when ya'll have a chance to free the Big Mac from your right hand and the cellphone from your left hand.

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Y'all, innit?

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Friends of ours from the UK visited last summer and used their Tom Tom in the rental car they had over here. They'd downloaded BC maps whilst in the UK and thought it would make life easier whilst travelling around the province.

On a day trip out with them from Kamloops Tom Tom came close to being ejected out of the car on half a dozen occasions. It missed turns and had intersections pop up miles out of place. Can't say I was too impressed really :rolleyes:

I drive around Vancouver regularly and not living there don't really have a great idea about where I'm going, so just visit Google maps before a journey, set 'too' and 'from' locations, print them off and use those.

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I think you are right - thanks for correcting my 'merican slang.

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Not at all. The grammar of that expression is a hot topic in our house. Some consider it slack usage to use y'all in the singular, whereas I see that as being an acceptable regional variation.

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I once heard a Virginian say "y'all y'all" for plural :scared:

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Yeah, it's my Young Republican friend from Virginia who uses it in the singular. The OH, being originally from NC runs screaming from the room when I do it. Of course, y'all in estuary tones aint quite authentic in the first place.

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TomTom uses maps from Teleroute (Belgium based) whereas Garmin uses maps from Navteq.

Navteq are considered to be much more accurate today in North America.

If you buy a European Garmin you can buy later on maps for North America whereas on the TomTom 910 they're included already.

Personally, I'd get a Garmin. If you're going to be in Europe for a few months more, get a cheap (maybe second hand) TomTom or Garmin and buy a new one in Canada. BTW TMC traffic announcement systems are different in Europe and NA - a European aerial won't work - you need to buy a new one. All this additional stuff ain't cheap.

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All I can say is Tom Tom 710 although she has had a bit of a spaz in the mountains from time to time, ........................saved loads of arguments since we moved though.

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Bought the tomtom 910 for the specific reason it had both uk and canada maps on it.

Very good for directions etc with options to change direction etc

Only issue with it is the windscreen fix unit, as stated by others sites i looked the unit tends to droop down so have overcome this with putting something on the dash underneath the unit so it rests on that.

Also can tie in with mobile phone and has space to keep mp3 music on the large hard disk that comes with it.

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Found this interesting article while researching Sat Nav systems. Anyone had any similar personal experiences?

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0...many_satnav_dc