All extremely valid points my friends
Windows 10 isn't being picky when it farks up the Garmin stuff. I have numerous astronomy programs that simply won't work with 10. In fact, my new laptop bought because of the limited program compatibility with my new Mac mini, won't work with Windows 10 either and it came with it pre-installed; every time it turns on it 'encounters a problem' and closes. Normally it is OK when it restarts!!!
I never leave the UK without euro maps. I have excellent, unbelievably thin, plastic maps from Michelin which are waterproof, writeable and virtually indestructible. I can pack the whole of europe in about half the volume of a copy of MCN and I don't mean the bulky double Christmas edition.
There isn't a sat nag in the world that gives the ability to spread its screen out and say 'where looks good'?
There isn't a map in the world that knows where you are. Nor how to get home, to the hotel etc!
Modern sat nags have the great 'Where am I?' feature which gives, depending on model, location in terms of road and co-ordinates, nearest emergency services, fuel etc and can incorporate a detour into a route unlike my old Streetpilot which lost the original route navigation if you asked it to take you to fuel. In France a year ago I was relying on the advance warnings for services for fuel to get me home in a headlong dash.
Suddenly there was a sign telling me my next planned services fuel station was closed! The sat nag told me where the nearest fuel was but it was touch and go whether I made it. It was also tough and go when I got there and found it was now a housing development!! I managed to make the next nearest and the bike took almost 20 litres
When I got back on the motorway the services weren't closed after all!
A map would have been absolutely no use in any of that nonsense!
So, horses for courses boys and girls.
In the car, the iMenu thingy is a real distraction. When I scroll, it should 'speak' at me telling me what I have selected. Luckily most things are still touchable but unlike aircraft systems of old, all the switches and buttons are the same. The triangular, spherical with knobs on, square, cylindrical and flat knobs on the old-fashioned auto-pilots were a wonderfully easy system to use with flying gloves on.
My old Garmin Streetpilot also had 'real' buttons on the side unlike the new ones which require a visual to touch the right place on the screen and another to confirm where you are. Not good.
Mind, real maps require visual at every road junction unlike sat nags which 'tell you' where to go, as it were!
