Looking at getting a new GPS whats your thoughts on garmin 760

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Christian,

I'm sure Doug will be along to give his advice, but yes, the garmin Nuvi 760 is a very good device that will give you voice guided city driving with City Navigator and with the addition of "shonky maps" or Oztopo2, to cover country driving.

Bill.

I've been down the lap top/pda path and now have a Nuvi 760 with Oztopo and the free shonkymaps and find it very easy to use and the mapping is pretty good.

Cheers Bruce.

This review will have all your answers . Although US based the basics are the same.

Garmin nuvi 760 Review

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I've been researching these things in the last few days. Pretty much looking at one mainly for city navigation when we head to Perth etc, we have a Garmin 76 for the bush.
Anyway from what I've read Garmin seems to be highly regarded (in the US anyway) followed by Magellan. Tom Tom seems to be popular in Europe.

In my opinion it really gets my nerve that the Aussie Garmins don't seem to have the SIRF III Chipset - which is meant to be a lot faster in finding sattelites, particularly through buildings and foliage, and faster rerouting etc. The 760 doesn't have it and neither does the 250W. So if it matters to you read the specs very closely, if they don't explicitly state it then it likely doesn't have it. Pretty sure the Yank versions do though. . . but why not us?
Okay, rant over.
I was pretty much decided that we would look at the 760 or 250 etc, until I found out the above detail. Perhaps I'll wait till next year!

Thanks guys, one other thing is there are three of us buying the 760, regards the oztopo mapping cd can we just buy one of those and put the maps on all three units ?

Cheers

Christian