GPS and In car navigation

Mate,

I was talking to the Magellan Guy today at the Canberra Leisure show and he was telling me that in a month or so they will be releasing a new SD card with the full Australia Street Navigation for their hand held GPS's such as the Explorists range. I have an Explorist 600 with Discover Aust Topographical maps which is great and now with this coming it will be the best of both world all in one unit. The only thing he said the new SD card won't have is it obviously won't talk to you though does show where to turn etc. For me that is great as I think they have rather obnoxious voices anyway. I thought this was rather interesting.....

I am looking at also getting a new GPS and posted asking for information.

Blaze suggested a PDA and loading both the tom tom software and oziexplorer. This sounds like a good idea to me as it provides the benefits of the hand held GPS units and the in-car navigations systems which are not portable.

The following is what Blaze sent me:

"Des Lexic just bought a N35 CoPilot PDA which also runs TomTom and Oziexplorer Software, which is what I use on my PDA. This is by far the best setup I have seen so far. Has all your turn left turn right yakking going on if you are using the TomTom or CoPilot and then if you have a Mitsubishi or a Tojo (or so Des says) you can go off the black top. If your just doing black top like most Neeeeessssan owners then buy a 310 :-) "

You'll have to excuse the go at my Nissan but he drives a Challenger. That is he's a bit challenged.

I hope this gives you some assistance.

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I use a garman 60c unit and fit it to the car with a frame that come with it. It links to the lap top computer which is handy to actually see where you have to go before you start driving. Although half the fun is just following the directions of the machine.
There are more accuate GPS's but mine is within 5 metres most of the time and I can usually walk from there!!!
Neil

outback epicurean
Its like ovens or kitchen equipment epicurean, talk to 2-3 "experts" as to what would suit you, not a forum like this, as you will end up with the usual "Toyota Nissan" shiyte, you know what i mean, mine is better than yours.

DO NOT talk to the mass merchants re this however because they know nothing about what they are selling. The likes of reputable 4x4 shops and dedicated navigation aid suppliers.

To improve any system you will have to buy additional software and maps to be absolutly compleat.

I have a question about the Lat and Long being able to be seen on the nav screen (when the maps on) Like when you move the cursor I would have thought it should show you its Lat and Long, but on my Magellan Meridian Gold it does not have this function. Very annoying especially when using the Dirty Weekends book. So do other GPSs have this function? So now Iam going to buy a lap top so I have mapping there so I can transfer back to my GPS.
Cheers Bruce.

I have:

Magellan Explorist 600 with the Aus Mapping (not topo)

Great in the bush, and hiking which i main'y use it for.

I have TomTom and a bluetooth GPS for around capital Cities and it works with major roads and in towns in the bush as well. Not sure if many 4x4 tracks will be on it, won't know until i get out in the bush and turn it on.

I also have used Ozi on both a Laptop and Handheld PC.

Personally, I would get a PDA and Bluetooth GPS as you get both Ozi and TomTom which both are excellent products, something like an Explorist if you are hiking etc, but for general 4wding etc, ozi & TomTom are far superior in my opinion!

FWIW I have had a mobile setup and GPS's in my 4wds for about 5 years now!

Steve