Thread: What percentage?

Originally Posted by PhilipA

This topic is one which I have always been interested in, and have had a few false starts with in the past.
I have an old Garmin GPSV with Pacific Autoroute on it. I have been debating whether to get metroguide or city navigator for it.
I have resisted due to the cost.
Should I pay the $200 for metroguide. Are the maps significantly better than Pacific Rim?
I tried a free version of Ozyexplorer but found that it was pretty useless in mountains as the resolution was too coarse for small track logging.

I recently went out to the Flinders via The Darling etc. I was really surprised how many tracks were on the old Pacific Rim. Even the track north from Arkaroola to the Strezlecki was on it , (although the alignment was out) and the Darling River roads. It did not have the alternative track to Camerion Corner on it from the Strezlecki, but I understand that the property owner forbids traversing it anyway.
The point is that I knew at all times where I was and whether I was headed in the right direction. We supplement it with local maps.
My wife flat out refuses to sit with a laptop on her lap while we drive and I do not blame her.
Am I a Luddite?
My impression is that the recent cheapo Navmans etc are not much advance on my old GPS V in the country .
Am I wrong?
Regards Philip A

Not if you can help it, we had to change to this after Navman wouldn't update there new software to the older Navman PiN PDA GPS and we didn't want to buy a designated metro GPS.

Navman is the best city/country voice navigation, it has more country maps than the others, but not as good as a designated GPS (ie) Garmin, Navman PDA type and so on IN THE BUSH.

But it is very close, an example is we can voice navigate most NPs and State forest using only the Navman city navigation, it's only the smaller tracks it doesn't pick up, that's why we have Ozi and CE for the Navman PDA, the best of both worlds.

We found that the garmin city voice navigation has it's drawbacks, turning you right at no right turn streets, navigating you to dead end streets and so on.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

This topic is one which I have always been interested in, and have had a few false starts with in the past.
I have an old Garmin GPSV with Pacific Autoroute on it. I have been debating whether to get metroguide or city navigator for it.
I have resisted due to the cost.
Should I pay the $200 for metroguide. Are the maps significantly better than Pacific Rim?
I tried a free version of Ozyexplorer but found that it was pretty useless in mountains as the resolution was too coarse for small track logging.

I recently went out to the Flinders via The Darling etc. I was really surprised how many tracks were on the old Pacific Rim. Even the track north from Arkaroola to the Strezlecki was on it , (although the alignment was out) and the Darling River roads. It did not have the alternative track to Camerion Corner on it from the Strezlecki, but I understand that the property owner forbids traversing it anyway.
The point is that I knew at all times where I was and whether I was headed in the right direction. We supplement it with local maps.
My wife flat out refuses to sit with a laptop on her lap while we drive and I do not blame her.
Am I a Luddite?
My impression is that the recent cheapo Navmans etc are not much advance on my old GPS V in the country .
Am I wrong?
Regards Philip A

The GPS V was a groundbreaking unit, back in 2000 or whenever it was released. Now it's painfully out of date. No memory card, slow, small low-res screen, poor GPS lock capability by today's standards...the GPS60cx is a long way ahead as you'd expect.

There is no need for wifey to have a laptop on her lap. Build a mount. Or use a PDA, or UltraMobilePC or similar. It's dangerous to hold it on your lap anyway.

No you're not a Luddite. They are the ones who deny the usefulness of this technology for everyone. I always take paper maps too and can use them if the technology isn't available, but digital is my primary navigation system.