Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 at 21:31
I have an original HN5 and for the purpose I use it for would not consider upgrading.
It has the latest version of OziExplorer and the full range of both NATMAP and Hema maps that came with the unit.
I do not use it for city navigation as I don't want to innerupt OziExplorer.
One really valuable upgrade for the Hema would be the ability to run muliple operations concurrently, but this is apparently not considered "important".
I use the Hema purely for country and remote travel, showing my position on a moving map and recording my track. This it does superbly and for this use only, it was worth the purchase price.
I have a TomTom unit for voice guided city navigation and it also works extremely
well for some country travel. You can enter a destination and TomTom will calculate the route based on the quickest or shortest one. Whichever you choose.
This it also does extremely
well.
I love OziExplorer, but the ability to enter a destination and have Ozi give you the route to drive, would be just the icing on the cake.
As an instance, I am planning on travelling from
Adelaide to
Tibooburra over
Easter. To plan this trip in Ozi, you need to enter manual waypoints, then convert it to a route. In TomTom you merely enter the destination and you will be given the recommended route displayed on a map, plus be given voice guided direrections, plus an estimated time for the trip.
As I have stated, I love OziExplorer and find it invaluable, but for many trips along the major highways and tracks, TomTom, or a similar device, is much simpler to use.
Thus I use both devices which complement each other.
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