Single GPS Unit for both town & country?
Submitted: Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 17:23
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PradoBoy
Hi everyone,
I am seeking some advice on GPS units. I am seeking a single unit that will handle both City (street) navigation (and give voice commands for directions) and Country (track and off track) navigation.
At the moment I can find good units that do one but not both functions. For example the TomTom ONE can handle most city navigating and give voice commands etc. but can't handle Country navigation. Whilst something like the Garmin GPS 60 can handle country navigation but doesn't really handle city navigation as slickly as the TomTom and certainly doesn't give voice prompts etc.
Anyone know of a unit that handles everything? Or am I just "off track"?
Cheers,
PradoBoy
Reply By: SA_Patrol - Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 17:47
Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 17:47
you could try , Garmin quest, GPS 276C Garmin 7200, these are all over the $1000 price bracket, all these will also do track log, plan your route, tell you what time is sunrise and sunset, they can tell you when the moon rises and when it sets, the Quest and 276C only show 2D where the 7200 I think does 3D view.
It all depends what you want the GPS to do
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Reply By: Tim HJ61 (WA) - Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 17:53
Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 17:53
Do a search in this
forum on using a PDA with or without inbuilt GPS and running Tom Tom for city turn by turn, and OziExplorer for country mapping. There have been some recent threads. It is all quite doable.
Inbuilt GPS means less wires in the cabin but the unit must see the sky at all times. Remote GPS via bluetooth means two components but the PDA can be used anywhere in vehicle.
If you want a unit for hiking, not sure on that one. need to be careful about battery use and I'd be guessing the simpler the unit the better - ie a dedicated GPS. My Garmin extrex is okay for hiking battery wise, no mapping on it though.
Tim
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Follow Up By: Richard W (NSW) - Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 23:27
Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 23:27
I primarily run a Dell Axim PDA with a Globalsat BT338 GPS reciever as the hardware. Software is Tomtom6 and Ozi which can be run concurrently with GPS
gate. As
well as the Tomtom6 maps for Aust I've got a few maps for Ozi as
well.
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Reply By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 18:05
Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 18:05
GARMIN old chap is about the best , though I do believe Magellan suppose to be good too , go and
check things out in the web page I have done up for Maps and GPS's by the link below, A garmin GPS with Mapsource will voice guide you from
Perth to a location on De Courcey St . Bordertown ,then up the border to the sturt Hwy, then to 286 San Mateo Av
Mildura, Lane St,
Broken Hill, North to Florence St,
Birdsville, Then to
the tip of
Cape York,
members.westnet.com.au/dtilley/maps.htm
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Reply By: Shaker - Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 18:19
Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 18:19
Try the Mio P350 PDA with 400Mhz CPU is probably the best "bang for buck" taht will do what you ask.
It can be bought with MioMap software for around $450.00, or about $300.00 with no navigation software.
TomTom 6 is very good for city & limited country driving, Route 66 is more comprehensive in country areas & adequate for city use, it also has some high country fringe tracks & even shows
farm driveways, & the best thing is it's only $199.00
Being a PDA you can also use OziExplorer with your own maps.
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Follow Up By: Member - John R (NSW) - Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:08
Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:08
I have a Mio 169 which runs Tomtom 6 and Ozi concurrently. The GPS port is shared between the two by using GPS
Gate. Fantastic! The original installation of Mio's own street software was rubbish so I deleted it. There is a new software version out which I hope is better, but I couldn't see the value.
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Reply By: foxtel - Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 21:34
Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 21:34
Try Garmin Quest as it sat nav as
well as having manual waypoints coordinates.
Johnny Appleseeds have it for $847-00
www.ja-gps.com.au
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Reply By: Bonz (Vic) - Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 22:05
Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 22:05
I have a garmin 60 and it does city and country spectacularly, no oice but hey a beep works a treat. U need to get City Navigator software with it but once u have it you'll be rapt
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Reply By: Morty - Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 22:20
Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 22:20
G'day PradoBoy,
I drive a Prado120 turbo diesel, full tint, sovereign bull bar, 9000 winch, BFG A/Ts, safari
snorkel, inverter, fridge unit etc etc.
I think it depends on the $$$ you want to invest for a GPS unit.
I recently purchased an ASUS 636N PDA GPS, currently running co-pilot for the tar( also the brindies runs) and OziExplorer for the dirt. It is a combined PDA/GPS unit and I am very impressed with it. I recently sorted out the COMs port issues with help from this
forum and the more I use it, the more I am impressed. I managed to get hold of full NSW/VIC topo maps and run them under Ozi ( separate 2 gb SD card) and trialled them on a south coast (NSW) run just over a week ago. It uses moving maps and worked 100%. The cost of this unit is at the upper end but
well worth it if you can afford. A new model has just been released with better memory, but the $$$ has also gone up.
Happy to discuss further.
Morty
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Follow Up By: fruers - Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 23:11
Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 23:11
Hey Morty,
Are you interested in doing a trade for your vic topo maps?
fruers at dropzone dot com
Jonathan
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Follow Up By: PradoBoy - Thursday, Feb 15, 2007 at 22:38
Thursday, Feb 15, 2007 at 22:38
Hi Morty,
Thanks for the advice dude! I ended up going with it as I needed to replace my old PDA (which I broke last week) - but with a slight twist, purchasing a HP iPAQ 5765 which has TomTom Navigator 6 pre-loaded.
I'd like to have a further chat about your 120 Series Turbo Diesel - can you please email me at
ross@barton.id.au?
Cheers mate - and thanks for all your help - just brilliant,
PradoBoy
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Reply By: DIO - Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 00:15
Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 00:15
Garmin Quest is the way to go. Have a look at GPS OZ their price is $845.00 and they'll install Track 4 Australia (upon request) at no extra cost.
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Reply By: Patrol22 - Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 13:03
Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 13:03
As others have pointed out - have a look at one of I've had one for about 6 months now...best things since canned beer.
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Follow Up By: Patrol22 - Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 13:05
Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 13:05
....Here goes again. Try this link to view an ASUS MyPal
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Reply By: Member - Mary W (VIC) - Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 14:28
Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 14:28
I recently had a look at ASUS R2H-it's a tablet notebook with 7" touch screen.I am seriously considering one of them .Has 60G hard drive.Is anyone famaliar with them ?Thanks ,
Mary
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Reply By: Patan - Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 19:54
Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 19:54
Hi PradoBoy,
you are not "off track".
Check this web www.navnet.org.au
Cheers
Pat
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Follow Up By: The big easy - Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 21:36
Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 21:36
Hi Patan
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Follow Up By: The big easy - Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 21:42
Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 21:42
sorry i'll try again. do you know a cost for navnet setup?
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Follow Up By: Patan - Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 22:41
Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 22:41
Hi,
I do not know exactly, but they did have a some special deal for ExPlorOz members.
It was around $ 3500 including a camera. They have the sponsor page on this web.
Patan
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