Will a Nuvi 765 navigate to a waypoint ?

Hey Bonz

It should do what you want. I have the 760 and it does it.

Peter

Hi Bonz
You will find that all that you will have to do is add the latitude and longitude and then use that as a go to destination and it will take you to that location.

Cheers


Stephen

Bonz
As the others have told you, but if your using it as a hand held the battery don't seem to last , you could connect it to one of those little 12v Motorcycle batteries stuffed in a carry bag, I used mine to mark many concrete floor bases while walking around some WW2 sites and it started to run out of power, they really meant for in vehicle use, if your going to use a GPS in the field then the best unit would BE a Garmin MAP60Cx, To do what I want I got the basic MAP60 .

Garmin MAP60Cx

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Any GPS should do that..even the l'il cheapy eTrex..
Just enter your lat and long...hit the GOTO button...

There's an external battery available in the US for the 760.

Hi Bonz

I have a 760 (which is fantastic, particularly with Shonkymaps loaded) BUT this is the one function that I haven't been able to master and perhaps Doug or others can clarify.

As an example, a couple of weeks ago I was trying to navigate to a lat/long position near Andamooka where the dingo fence meets the Borefield Road. I suspect that because I was using Shonky which is a non-routable mapset (and you need to untick City Navigator to allow Shonky to show up) if I put in the POI/Favorite I created as the place to goto an error message would come up to say that a route could not be created and the system just reverted to the map screen.

If I do this on my old Magellan 315 then it shows me the direction and distance to the POI. I simply cannot find a way to make the 760 do this. I would be surprised if the 765 was different.

Regards,

Adrian

I used my Garmin 250 for that sort of purpose and it didnt seem to work well. might have been the heavy trees but it seemed to update my position quite infrequntly compared to my garmin etrex which registers even small movements

other thing is my 250 doesnt give you the choice of different coords
- it wont do UTM for example