slomofo

Well-Known Member

• Dec 27, 2010

• #1

Looking for peeps sage guidance on portable GPS - eTrex and the like. Don' need a whopper for crossing deserts, just a handy unit for plotting greenlane waypoints and POI

Any tried and tested recommendations?

Thanks folks

 

Pikey

Dummy Ejection Facilitator..

• Dec 27, 2010

• #2

Memory map on a Netbook or pda and a bluetooth or USB Gps dongle

 

slomofo

Well-Known Member

• Dec 27, 2010

• #3

redhand said:

Memory map on a Netbook or pda and a bluetooth or USB Gps dongle

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Cheers,

Loaded MM free onto my iPhone - looks good enough!

TTFN

 

wack61

Well-Known Member

• Dec 28, 2010

• #4

I've got skobbler on my iphone which works well

 

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Mike Whiskey

New Member

• Dec 28, 2010

• #5

View Ranger is quite good too.

ViewRanger : Off-road Topographic Map Navigation, Sports GPS, Buddy Beacon Tracking and Location-Based Content

MW

 

DEANO3528

Member

• Dec 31, 2010

• #6

The thing about MM is it's ease of use and portability, not to mention sharing routes and tracks, etc with other MM users. I use it on my lappy, PC and on my Dell PDA with BT GPS mouse.
I also have a Magellan Map 330 which I use as back-up and for spot ref's which is a lot easier when checking paper maps.

 

Big Stu 12

Well-Known Member

• Dec 31, 2010

• #7

DEANO3528 said:

The thing about MM is it's ease of use and portability, not to mention sharing routes and tracks, etc with other MM users. I use it on my lappy, PC and on my Dell PDA with BT GPS mouse.
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I got the same sort of set up, but a HP Ipaq and a tomtom bluetooth GPS.

 

Pikey

Dummy Ejection Facilitator..

• Dec 31, 2010

• #8

Big Stu 12 said:

I got the same sort of set up, but a HP Ipaq and a tomtom bluetooth GPS.

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I had ipaq with built in GPS but found the screen too small and difficult to see in certain light conditions. So invested in an Asus netbook and usb GPS and it's a huge improvement.

 

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Big Stu 12

Well-Known Member

• Dec 31, 2010

• #9

redhand said:

I had ipaq with built in GPS but found the screen too small and difficult to see in certain light conditions. So invested in an Asus netbook and usb GPS and it's a huge improvement.

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I did think about a netbook, but decided to use a HX4700 PDA, which has a 4" VGA format 640 x 480-pixel screen size, plus I had one not being used I also had the powered screen mount for it, its also easy to put in your pocket when you leave the landy.

I do carry my laptop with MM on it as well so I can look up at a larger scale.