Corporate Blog

As the holiday season approaches, we’ve made it a goal of ours to try and give something back to all the navigation users that have made the last year such a success for us. We have been throwing around some ideas for a while, but most of the good ones (“trade in your old paper maps for a cell phone!”) simply aren’t feasible. What we ended up deciding on, was the simple gift of advice, and there is nothing we are more qualified to give advice about than how to get the most out of turn-by-turn navigation.

For the millions who decide to brave the madness that is the after-Christmas sales on the 26th, we decided to look at where the crowds will be the worst, so you can try and avoid the mayhem. On December 26, the top five most searched destinations include Walmart, Best Buy, and Target (we like to think this is more about cashing in on those new gift cards, as opposed to returning bad gifts), Starbucks (to re-energize), and Bank of America (because even the best sales won’t make products free). Well, it may not be possible to avoid all these places, our advice is to go to the smaller stores on your list first, and save the Walmart’s of the world for the next week.

Along with Christmas, we also wanted to give some advice on how to best use navigation on New Years. One of the best parts of New Year’s Eve is that we often don’t know exactly how our nights are going to end up, and although this can be exciting, it can also lead to disaster. With navigation, you should never feel lost. Top searches on New Year’s Eve include Bars and Nightclubs, Hotels and Motels, and of course Taxi’s. No matter what your plans are, we recommend using your navigation device to help make sure you end up where you want to.

We hope that this may help a little bit, and we want to wish everyone a wonderful and safe holiday.