Thread: Which GPS???

Originally posted by incisor+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(incisor)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Phoenix
The PDA + gps combination is an interesting idea, but I think that the nature and conditions that it would be used in would mean that it wouls be destroyed too soon,

personally i think the pda option is way more robust than the other options esp the laptop and larger gps's.

mine takes a hiding on a day to day basis without missing a beat.[/b][/quote]

Some friends of mine over here have purchased such kit.

Seemed to work well, but on long trips the PDA would freeze. Eventually after searching on the internet they figured it was a memory leak or some such in the software and there was nothing that could be done about it :-(

At the moment I have a TomTom Go! I am really really hoping they start selling Australian maps by the time I come back to Oz in April 2006 as I love it to bits.... it's small, easy-to-use, and seems to pick up signals quite easily.

If they don't start selling maps of Oz, I'll sell it and have to look at picking up something else when I get back home :roll:

destinator has no such problems, have used it in 48 hour + sessions and never had a problem that wasnt my fault.

it has AU maps in truly amazing detail...

Maybe this deserves it's own thread, but I would like to find a way to buy satellite maps of inland Australia. It doesn't necessarily have to integrate with a GPS, but would need to be able to pinpoint GPS co-ordinates.

I know there are plenty of mapping solutions, but what we want this for it to be able to look in detail at the terrain in a given area. This would help us find the best way over sand dunes, and help us to find a nice wooded campsite far more easily [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

Don't know about buy sat pix, but if you have a pc, download google earth.

Sat pix of the entire planet.

Australia isn't updated with the frequency nor the detail of USA, and probably doesn't come up to the detail standard that you want, but you can navigate there with lat/long or gps coordinates.

And it's a whole lot of fun.

If you're looking in NSW try the dept of lands http://lands.nsw.gov.au
They have a mapping site which will do topo display and with a whole bunch of fiddling about will give you really good aerial pix.

Cheers

Simon

Ok, an update on this, the budget has been fixed at a max $600, and the main 2 units that i've been looking at are the Garmin GPSMap60 and the Magellen Meridian Gold.

Anyone have any experience with these??

The specs on both are pretty similar, and i'm leaning a little towards the garmin withough having had a look at them yet.

Originally posted by Phoenix
Ok, an update on this, the budget has been fixed at a max $600, and the main 2 units that i've been looking at are the Garmin GPSMap60 and the Magellen Meridian Gold.

Anyone have any experience with these??

The specs on both are pretty similar, and i'm leaning a little towards the garmin withough having had a look at them yet.

Used both extensively. I own a GPS60c. It is in my opinion a better unit than the Magellan in almost every respect, bar mapping. Even with Mapsource 6 Garmin are still well behind Magellan's DiscoverAus. However, this isn't a problem for me as I run digital maps on a PDA.

The 60 will have more features, better battery life and be more usuable. The Magellan will have the better maps (extra $).

Both will do the job.

Tat's what I thought. I was debating going for the basic GPS60, but as the minister for finance has allowed more funds than I expected I think it will be the GPSmap60 that i'll be getting. I'd like to run moving maps on a laptop, but I don't have a laptop to use for that (yet )

Thanks for that RMP [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

G'day Phoenix,

I used an Etrex for a number of years both in handheld mode and linked to my laptop with Oziexplorer for mapping.

Worked a treat until it spat the dummy. Rang Garmin who said to connect to website & upload a software update. Did this & it works a treat again.

Even though I have progressed to an in-car computer system, I still use the Etrex when I go walking. Its a great little GPS.

Roger