Monday, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:51
Greg , Oziexplorer simply cannot navigate a track and I know of no other unit that can other than the 276c and its of shoots , I really wish there was something else as ours are geting on.
Just to explain , in Ozi etc , you look at the track on the screen and make the descisions to turn etc. I.E. its essentially dumb.
The 276c actually navigates a track the user can generate in the same manner the your normal car units do with there built in maps of surburban roads.
I.E. It computes ahead - warning you when to turn, generating headings, adjusting the direction pointer giving etas etc based on computing the entire track.
Our recent sprint up the Canning showed just how powerful this can be as we consistently provided better and more timely track info.
Zorro - I would not say the Hema is pretty awful - its more that with the move to more road based mass Car nav systems lots of real features have been lost.
Things you forget , like the 276c are fully waterproof and marine rated.
The VMS based unit in a pathfinder in our family , has proved so clunky that the user now runs a cheapie on the windscreen for the around town stuff.
Technology marches forward into more user friendly type features each of which cuts into the really useful features.
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