Tuesday, May 05, 2009 at 17:20
Hi . I have just bought a Garmin Nuvi 760 from DSE for $388.00, magic unit, I have a Tom Tom as
well and you can't add offroad maps.
I have down loaded Shonky maps ( free) and Tracks Aust 4 onto a card and use it in the 760,
My mate has bought the Garmin topo CD and loaded it on to his new 255W, I have it on my mapsource but cant load it onto the 760,( just a point if you buy it on the Sd card you cant load it onto you PC, we just loaded it on to the unit from Mapsource)
it is by far the best mapping setup , the towns have more street detail than CN 9, and it has every track around here marked on it , the only thing is that you cant set your route on the tracks ( shown as bird tracks ) only on the solid line tracks , it is only the very minor tracks that are marked in the bird tracks, it also has the route feature letting you load 10 routes on from the PC, also has FM and the instructions come out the car radio, and the bluetooth for the phone is great, when I get a call it comes up on the screen and you just touch it to answer call, safe as,
Is a nice small unit .
I have just got back from a bike ride thru the hills and wirrabarra forest and over the Bridle Path, and it saves the tracks ( breadcrumbs) and it works great and it was on for 4 1/2 hrs in my jacket pocket and it still has one section of the battery left. On dirtroad rides ( not to rough) I put an earpiece in and it gives you the route instruction from my pocket, Magic.
As you may have guessed by now I am wrapped in it ,
Cheers Des.
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