water over road

**mango** · 10-05-08, 01:56 PM

hi ppl,

if there is water over the road, will it show up on a gps that the road is flooded ?

**puca** · 10-05-08, 03:27 PM

not unless it is a permanent feature it wont show if it is 24/7 yes it will show i have a cause way that i go over to get to a m8s property and it is shown as water over road

**admin** · 10-05-08, 06:33 PM

My wife drives over a floodway , but it doesnt show up. Generally the road is dry unless the creek overflows , its in a big dip in the road. There are floodway signs everywhere , but nothing on the gps about it ( Tomtom ).

**bit_pit** · 10-05-08, 07:24 PM

Perhaps if TMC were available and active, it could possibly advise of flooded roads etc. But I don't know of any live implementation here yet.

As an aside...Sanity mentioned a dip in the road. Learning to drive out the back blocks in a friends HR (this was the 70's) , tearing along in the middle of the night, up came a sign that said "Dip", which I did, and duly dipped the headlights..
For some reason my mate never let me drive his HR again, I guess he never had it airborne before.

**mango** · 10-05-08, 08:08 PM

thanks fellas,

was an argument with he who knows everything ( 19 yo g/son ).

he busted injector lines on his courier van and had to get towed home by racq, while on the way back they hit a flooded road and had to detour 60 klms around it, it was not flooded when he went over it an hour b4.

racq truck had a 12 inch screen gps in it and the racq driver reckons it was not worth a pinch of shit as it didnt show a flooded road, hence the argument with me g/son.

i reckoned it would not show up, he reckons it would.

**intelliGEORGE** · 10-05-08, 11:18 PM

It won't show a flooded road, at the end of the day it is an electronic map with global positioning to show where you are on the map. Basic technology when you think about it.

However, there are subscription services which work via bluetooth with mobile phones to give you live traffic conditions, whether or not the truckie had it is another story.

**admin** · 10-05-08, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by bit_pit

As an aside...Sanity mentioned a dip in the road. Learning to drive out the back blocks in a friends HR (this was the 70's) , tearing along in the middle of the night, up came a sign that said "Dip", which I did, and duly dipped the headlights..
For some reason my mate never let me drive his HR again, I guess he never had it airborne before.

It got a laugh from me

Thats something my missus would do