"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 21:06:07 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>I was headed to Winco today but wound up at Walmart instead. My stupid
>>GPS
>>rerouted me through the parking lot at the Everett Mall and tried to make
>>me
>>get onto the freeway which is what I was trying to avoid.
>
> Did you set it to avoid highways? Most have a setting for things like
> that.

No. I know that it can be set that way. Daughter did that and I didn't
know it. Could not figure out why it was trying to take me a weird way to
get to Bellevue and had we taken that route we would have missed the
performance. Luckily I had printed off the Mapquest route as well.

We had more time going home and I hate the freeway so I just trusted that it
would get me to my friend's house and it did.

Normally if I know at least part of the route, I will just keep going that
way and it won't make me go back to the freeway. But it's all good as I got
what I needed at Walmart and found a few new items. I just have been
avoiding that area due to the high crime rate but they had tons of extra
security there and I had no problemd.
>
> I try to look at a map to see where I'm going as the navigation often
> picks a route that I'd rather not take. It is a computer and uses
> only programmed data to make the route, not human things like nice
> scenery or heavy traffic.

I don't do at all well with maps which is why I try not to use them.
Husband gets mad at me because he loves maps. Can't understand why I don't.