I've owned or used 2 Garmin Nuvi models and currently have a factory installed car system. In each case, you can instruct the unit to bias the routing based on preferences such as no toll roads, shortest time, shortest distance, easiest or most direct route. The Nuvi also supports pedestrian as well as vehicular. The 750/760 series is advertised as allowing for 12 custom routes (iirc) with as many as 10 inserted waypoints each. It provides turn-by-turn voice prompts for these as well.
I also have a Moto Q9h which uses free apps like Windows Live Search, mYahoo, and Google maps in conjunction with the internal GPS chip. I can search for a restaurant, for example, pull up a phone number and get turn-by-turn directions. Sadly, the phone does not automatically update my location/directions as the trip progresses. I need to manually tell it to do so. YMMV ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
