Looking for a new tablet - maybe

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10. For recreation - I want to be able to check out places to go

And we tend to stay in the undeveloped areas. For instance, we plan to visit a lot of Royal Society for the Preservation of Birds sites. They are often out in the middle of nowhere. The RSPB site gives great directions, but I don't want to have to print those out. Having a tablet for navigation as well as internet access would help a lot.

Another advantage is that I could plan my routes the night before and use Street View to see what the corners essential for turns look like and know better what to watch for.

The last several trips we have taken in the US the tablet has also helped with current traffic conditions. The online maps give info as to slow downs, construction, accidents, etc so we could plan alternate routes to avoid difficult situations.

While I grew up with printed maps and love them - have a collection that dates back to some my grandfather got in the 1930s - they can never be as current as the online maps are now. Too often we have found that "locals" often don't know the sites we are going to and give terrible directions even if they do know them.

We do engage with people as we travel but find them highly unreliable for the precise information we need.