{"id":5462,"date":"2010-07-29T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2016-01-16T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T03:14:17","slug":"tomtom-vs-mapquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/tomtom-vs-mapquest\/","title":{"rendered":"TOMTOM vs. MapQuest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had the opportunity to take advantage of GPS guidance on our trip (we’re first-timers), and, in most cases the TOMTOM unit my parents lent us was helpful.<\/strong> My wife had also taken the time to MapQuest every stop, print out detailed directions and organize everything into a nice binder (complete with state maps). It took her a fair amount of time to do this AND I’m so glad she did. There were a few times where, had we only relied on the TOMTOM to lead us, we would have added an extra 3 hours onto one leg of our voyage. It also baffled me how, even when we were within sight of our motel, it would tell us to turn around and take a different street or turn in an all together different direction. Overall it was nice to have a second opinion on some routes, but we began to joke about TOMTOM’s math and calculation skills (i.e. Traveling 200 miles on a highway at 75 miles per hour, according to TOMTOM, would take four and a half hours). With our faith in technology shaken a bit, we began to affectionately refer to our little GPS ‘genius’ as DUMDUM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had the opportunity to take advantage of GPS guidance on our trip (we’re first-timers), and, in most cases the TOMTOM unit my parents lent us was helpful. My wife had also taken the time to MapQuest every stop, print out detailed directions and organize everything into a nice binder (complete with state maps). It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[74,570],"tags":[574,575,573],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-vacation","tag-gps","tag-mapquest","tag-tom-tom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1q6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8348,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}