Of course that's part of the problem, we all have different personalities and needs. You know where you want to go, and seek help in getting there. I sometimes flounder about, and then wonder where I am.

On the list of desirables, one of the things my Garmin Street Pilot had (that Visteon doesn't) was a house-number display. It's not at all uncommon to be looking for 1234 Elm Street, and find yourself on Elm Street in the dark, looking for visible house numbers. The Garmin provided a running display of the numbers, which was helpful. Visteon has the information, since the NAV function uses it, but doesn't display it. That's an urban and suburban problem. At the other extreme, I have found myself on a barren hillside in Nevada writing down the lat/long (from my hiking GPS), so I could later find it on the topo. People have different needs, often the same person at different times, and that's why flexibility of input and output is desirable. The information is all in there. Of course the other side of that coin is that flexibility makes the device harder to learn to use. (Someone once quipped that the real genius of the Japanese was on display when they made 35mm cameras even Americans could operate.)

But making more information available, even if you have to work for it, has got to be a social good. Why don't we coordinate a wish list, and try to influence the next model? (The current issue of Science News features an article about why fish move in schools, birds fly in squadrons, and locusts swarm. Turns out that if only a few know where they want to go, it is enough to move the crowd.

I'm rambling.

Hal