gps (what works in central aus)

Satellites work everywhere you don't need a special GPS for Central Aust. If you are going to rely on a GPS life and death scenario you'd better make sure you have a backup and if all fails communications to call for help.

Brodie

What do you mean by a "GPS"?

Are you talking about street navigation or something to show your location or to show where you are on a map?

Your answer willmake it easier for people to be helpful.

Phil

Hi Brodie

Yor GPS will work anywhere, but it depends on the 'usable' information you want it to tell you.

By this I mean, if you just want a position (lat/long) then it will do it, if you want to view maps etc, you'll need to upload appropriate maps for the area your are travelling in. You'll need to check if you can do this on your unit.

Otherwise, a laptop or similar with Oziexplorer mapping software and GPS mouse plugged in will d the job...

Good luck with it...

As a general rule, the further North you are, the larger number of satellites your GPS can acquire. Your standard in-car GPS will probably not have anything other than main roads and may be useless in the wilderness.

If you are going out into the wilderness and relying on your GPS, then I would take a backup GPS. I have had a number of GPS failures, mainly because of corrugations breaking power and other connections. I always carry a spare in the form of a notebook computer with OziExplorer installed.

That's OK Brodie.... I'll answer your question if some can't understand it LOL!

GPS will work anywhere, but there are really four different types used in 4x4 applications.

The first one is the factory or aftermarket in car type (in dash or windscreen mounted TomTom/Nuvi), these are good for city navigation offering voice and point to point navigation but not much use off road as they don't show all the tracks or roads in all areas and the factory ones don't have the facility to add more complex maps, the aftermarket ones some do and some don't.

The second one is the everyday hand held type (Magellan/Garmin) that can take extra maps and some offer voice and point to point navigation but the down side is there small screen.

The third one is one like the Hema navigator that has the advantages of the two above but still offers limited functions.

The fourth one is a laptop that can do everything the three above can plus more and you have a wider selection of maps and data available but you have to have a separate GPS engine/mouse.

So in other words not many factory navigation systems work well outside of cities and the typical $299 TomTom types are much the same, Hema Navigator is good and a laptop is best.

G'day Brodie -check out thread no. 86959 and then buy a good map !!

Happy travelling

Gazz