Garmin vs Magellan

Submitted: Saturday, Jan 14, 2006 at 21:20
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Wll uys and Gals.

I have just started to get involved in the GPS/Tracking units. And i am in discussion in some other threads on this forum 0 in a basic way as i'm treading very carefully so to buy the right item.

A dedicated Map shop close by, only dealt in Magellan, and couldn't offer help with my Garnin unit. This very nice chap, put me onto a Disposal Store in a close by suburb: They stock Garmin and Magellan.

I was looking a the Garmin 320C (or something like that), then the topic lead to Magellan and thus some comments about Garmin 'getting left behind', and this store looking more favourably towards Magellan.

This new topic of converstaion was based on (Apparently), that Garmin use 'Sensis' information. Whereby Magellan have done there 'own thing', with far greater accuracy. I was told (by the salesman - so must be true!), that Magellen actually field test everything 'live'. Contours are (this is what i was told guys), are checked and filled in by hand.

I had a demo on a Magellan unit, that showed some VERY nice off road mapping.

There is apparantly a RoadMate unit coming out in Feb that is going to 'kill' the Garmin 320C. This Roadmate is used by Hertz USA in their 'No lost' (Or something like that), system.
So this Roadmate seems to be the bees knees. It is also supposed to be a Sat/Nav and full a featured GPS unit - The Salesman wa quite adament over it, and briefly showed me the official brochure - says that i was the first to read it (lucky guy am i). I doubted it as i explained to the salesman, they it would eat into the two markets. But he assured me that this RoadMate did indeed do all these things.... Est price is around AUD $1295. So it could have two in one after all at that price!

But after the USA web sites, their models do not seem to have this full blown GPS fuctionality.

So i wonder if one shop being only Magellan and the other store 'moving' to Magellan, is a sign of which manufacture is better than the other?

Food for thought.
And while i am here, can anyone lend me a copy of Metroguide or CN6? I just want to see with my own eyes, what the quality is like.

Thanks,
Alan.

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