Hema Navigator Hn5i

Bill,

I use mine for work in some areas that are not normally covered with a normal street nav gps. The Igo street nav has most of the roads shown and has only been lost on the Leichhardt Highway 10km north of Miles.

I used it last week on Igo to travel to Townsville from Chinchilla and it had no issues.

The offroad mapping works well IMHO and I tend to use that more than the Igo so I can plot my routes.

Cheers Kev

Bill,

FYI: I just enabled all the Reviews on the shop system so you can now see all the reviews that were temp hidden for the last week. The reason they were all hidden is that I transferred all the shop item reviews into the new review system and this created 300 forum threads - I decided to hide them for 1 week to stop the forum showing 15 pages of reviews in one slab last week when I did the import - I have now enabled them all so you can read and see each of them - if that helps.

Just click on the item link in your Question above and it will take you directly to the item - scroll down to the review section and click on the word review to open all of the reviews we have had loaded.

David

I use both the IGO and 4WD maps on mine.

The IGO is generally good - easier to enter addresses and waypoints than my Navman, and especially easier to make changes enroute. I like the way I can select the camping spots and it will put in the address, and showing service stations has also been handy at times. It was also surprisingly accurate at predicting when I would reach my destination (even on long stretches).

However, was disappointed when IGO couldn't give me directions from home to Marree. It had a map of Marree, but wouldn't find a route to it as 'destination is isolated'. And yup, we found it OK , no need to tease :-)

I find the ability to zoom in or out on the 4wd maps is handy, as is the tracking. Not having used this kind of system previously, I found that putting in my route in advance looked to be waaay more effort than I was prepared to put in. So I don't use it for that. I also found it was still helpful to have a paper atlas handy as it is just easier to read for looking at the wider area.

YMMV