Garmin GPS

The Garmin 276c is still the best true GPS in the up to 4 inch screen size, most of our 4wding group now have these for serious work.

Its high screen output level and high resolution exceeds the others in readibily , and while it has all the features , including many that others don't have like the ability to directly run off the 12V - monitor the cars voltage and ring an alarm when its gets low - its has the ability to quickly move between two different map modes each with there own setups.

E.G. I use mine with free shonky map set for contours and set with the map fixed with north up, and my own selected variables overlaying the screen like UTM coords. I can then quickly switch to the expensive auto routing map set with map screen keeping the road I'm travelling on to the top of the screen and for this mode I use a different set of overlaid variables like ETE and car speed.

The 250W is being superceded by the 260W (and it's cheaper).

Clint
No you cannot upgrade the Nuvi 250/W to record track,the only one in the Nuvi range in Oz to this is the Nuvi 760, Have a look at my GPS webpage and do some more research.

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Hi Izey76, like Dougy said you can't upgrade to make breadcrumbs on the 250, the Nuvi 760 is the first of these types of navigators tht can do it.

If your looking for breadcrumbs and also do the map moving thing your are better off buying the GPSmap
60Cx or the GPSmap76Cx. I think these come with the 64mb microSd card but you can buy the 2gig for about $34, then you can add City navigator NT 2008, Shonkymaps, and bluecharts all on the same card. The 76 series can float on water which makes it the best for the boaties