Thread: Tevion GPS

As a GPS what are you wanting it for?

Offroad nav or road based nav?

Don't know about Olive (sorry) but I am interested in what systems people would suggest that are good at it all, on road, tracks and real bush. If it mates to an Apple even better but I do have access to Windows computer as well.

I havn't heard about any Mac GPS soft so far, but if ur mac is base on inter chipset, u could use a window xp simulator.
For the software, I suggest Ozi Explorer, it is good at both onroad and offroad navigation, but unfortunately, it doesn't provide turne-by-turne navigation, and it is not a routable software

Originally Posted by John W

Don't know about Olive (sorry) but I am interested in what systems people would suggest that are good at it all, on road, tracks and real bush. If it mates to an Apple even better but I do have access to Windows computer as well.

Unless you buy a car computer, there is not much around that will do everything. Personally, I run an IPAQ pocket PC with Tom Tom (for turn by turn navigation) and OziEzplorer for off road navigation. It is also used as a portable computer as it runs Excel, Word etc.

Downsides are cost. +/- $500 for the Pda and then Tom Tom, OziExplorer and maps on top of that. I love the system though and the only downside is screen size - it would be nice tp have a 7" screen.

Cheers,

Franz
2004 Td5 Classic with mods.

I'd buy the cheapest GPS Navigator possible. It's going to be out of date before it ever pays for itself unless you're a courier or travelling to interstate capitals a lot.

A mate's a truckie and he bought a NAVMAN about 3 years ago (over $1,000), they no longer do online map updates and he has to send it in and pay $180 for updates! He uses it every day, and still considers that kind of expense a waste of money.

I've seen GPS Navigators on ebay with complete maps for Australia, Europe and the USA pre loaded, may be worth looking at.

I reckon I'll wait until the Navigator phones start appearing cheap 2nd hand on ebay and get one of those. The GPS function chews through battery power, but in the car it'll be plugged in anyway.

For off road I use Ozi Explorer on a toughbook, and I've also got Map Monkey with about 7 year old Australian maps on it. Not up to date, but at least it will navigate me through country towns etc. I plug the toughbook into an old hand held GPS I was given, but one day I may buy a GPS/USM mouse, so I don't have to keep replacing batteries.

I got left behind with all the tech talk, I'll wait, the idea of it being obselete in a matter of months scares me. If it gets cheap enough I'll try it.

Originally Posted by Olive Drab

I got left behind with all the tech talk, I'll wait, the idea of it being obselete in a matter of months scares me. If it gets cheap enough I'll try it.

Is the Tevion from Aldi stores?
The only reason I ask is that we regularly shop there and find the food prices generally really great. However, we have had issues with the tevion brand purchased on behalf of someone else...... Not the GPS - but the VCR/DVDs products about a year or so ago.
We got a full refund, so no complaints about that. But just take care. Do your homework.

Good luck,
Mrs Bundalene

What you need to find out is whether it does a NMEA stream. If it does this then there is a good chance you'll be able to use it with oziexplorer.

As to the mac questions.. I have parallels on this machine and have an XP VM. I use it for all the ozi explorer and nanocom stuff. It's actually the only thing I use it for.

You can plug my Magellan GPS into the mac directly and move files around and so on. This is fine and mostly what I use as I have the maps on my Magellan.