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MapmyIndia GPS navigation system

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:39 PM by Charles Pennefather

“Do you want to use a GPS navigation system?” asked Banwari. I hadn’t used one earlier, and I was going to an unfamiliar place in a different city, so I agreed to take along the MapmyIndia Navigator. If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t know where he’s going on a road trip, you’ll need more than a map. You can always ask the locals for directions, but in a country where every few hundred kilometers brings a new language your way, making yourself understood can be quite a daunting task. Even if you do speak the local language, everything is usually ‘ten minutes away’, so you never have a proper idea of the distance. That’s where a car navigation system like the MapmyIndia “Fortuna 430 Classic” GPS Navigator is handy – you don’t have to stop to ask for directions, you know exactly how far you have to go in terms of kilometers and places along the route are also displayed on the screen.

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