There's a limit, you know.

In preparing for our trip to Hawaii next month, I wondered whether either of our GPS units would be of any use over there.  They have certainly come in handy even here in Sacramento where we fee pretty comfortable knowing where things are.  But I didn't even know whether the Hawaiian maps were loaded into our GPSs.

I couldn't get our Magellan unit to show a map of Hawaii.  It would accept an address in Hawaii and start to show a map then blank out the screen and show the message that "this was a restricted area".

TomTom, on the other hand was more than happy to take our addresses and show the local road and points of interest in the neighborhood of our time share.  But even TomTom has its limits.  When I asked it to compute a route from home to our time share it worked for 10 minutes and still said it couldn't figure out the last 2,500 miles!