Re: Off-topic / GPS question

"pws" <pwshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A friend gave me a Garmin emap GPS from 1991. It's old but it works.

Anyway, I would like to upgrade to a more modern one, I can actually still
sell this for about $80.00 to help offset the cost.
I would rather have a hand-held unit, and I won't try to program it while
driving.

This would mainly be used in the car but may be taken hiking as well.

I think that's where you may come unstuck. Car-GPSs and hiking GPSs tend to
have quite a different feature-set; I'm not aware of any that do both well,
though I may be missing something.

A few years ago I bought the Garmin e-Trex Legend
http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexLegend/ for hiking; it does its job very
well and was good value for money at the time, but I do find the limited and
unexpandable memory a bit of a pain. If I were to buy one again I'd
definitely buy one that either has more built-in memory, or one that allows
you to put in memory cards of some sort.

I did initially use this in my car as well but that's really not what it's
for and it's not particularly handy for it. The main limitations include no
colour and no on-the-fly recalculating of the route (if you take a wrong
turn you're on your own - any route needs to be programmed beforehand on
your computer and uploaded to the GPS, and it can't account for anything
going wrong en route). The screen size and resolution is also not
particularly condusive to being able to see it while driving.

Last year I then bought the Garmin streetpilot i3
(http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexLegend/ ) which has proven to be
excellent value and really does everything you'd need. It's certainly not
the most whizz-bang one out there and buy spending more money you can get
more comprehensive screen information, touch-screen input and that sort of
thing, but if all you want is a low-cost, good value device I can recommend
the i3. It's always got me where I wanted to go with no fuss - can't really
beat that in my book!

Eric



Can someone recommend a best bang for the buck on a GPS? I never thought I
would use one but I am finding even the older unit helpful.

Thanks!

Pat


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