GPS Navigator - the final solution -I hope

Submitted: Thursday, Jan 31, 2008 at 14:42
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This is the GPS I bought for $299 (free postage), I was the only bidder, has a NavMate system, Navteq maps and is a little ripper. ALL the firetrails around Canberra are on it as are all the fire trails/forest roads etc in the Snowy and South Coast. In short I am IMPRESSED especially at the price. Only one problem, because I'm a pedantic crusty old fart and that is that the only voice installed on the card is a Godamned Yankee one, however the suppliers seem happy to provide me with the "Aussie chick" - "Yar bloodywell lost".... There is provision to record and use your own or someone elses voice, I know of no other GPS with that facility. I wonder would John Cleese do it for me..... "You stupid bloody idiot I told you to turn left"
With the MIO520 I only had to go 500 metres south of Tharwa PO and got the message "warning Warning end of maps do legal u turn" That of course is not the fault of the machine but the maps preloaded into it. On the face of it the Navteq maps do provide a superior coverage to the sensis (wheris) ones. It also has a "Trail" ie off road model yet to be tested as all the tracks in the Brindabellas seem to be known to it....
Spose if I had waited 6 months these things will be like pedometers and come in packets of "Blue Hills" - cereal to you youngsters...
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