Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 09:05
As you say, it is a personal thing and what you are used to.
I run oziexplorer on my laptop at
home for route planning and a PDA with GPS oziexplorer CE in the car. But the 3.5" screen PDA is hard to read at times, but useful. I print out a set of the Natmap 1:250,000 for the interesting areas, and the PDA runs the same map, so you can look at the PDA and say 'I am here' on the map, and look further ahead than the PDA allows (without a lot of zooming).
I have the full set of Hema and Natpmap maps running on both laptop and PDA.
But it doesn't do drive navigation unless you set up a route first.
I do sometimes put in major waypoints and it gives me ETA to those.
The recorded track is useful.
Did think of buying a hema navigator but I have already spent $300.00 odd on maps, which are included in the HN5. Don't think they give a discount if you provide your own maps. :o)
So looking at a smartphone (3.5" screen) with GPS for the street navigation when it is useful (need a new phone), and a 5" or 7" GPS unit for the Hema maps for about $350.00.
While if I had none of these the HN5 might be worthwhile to me.
Check if you can run both the street navigator and Hema maps on the HN5 at the same time, and just flick between them. Could be useful from what we have done.
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