Help: Buying a GPS

charlie_82 said:
R2500 is above my budget though.
I guess, in order preference, this is what I would want:
  1. Easy updates with speed trap info (the kind mercurial mentioned would be best)
  2. Anti-Glare
  3. Bluetooth
  4. Multi viapoints
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Anti-Glare doesn't really exist, imo anyway...
Bluetooth isn't worthwhile unless you always have the gps plugged in and on the dash.
 
charlie_82 said:
R2500 is above my budget though.
I guess, in order preference, this is what I would want:
  1. Easy updates with speed trap info (the kind mercurial mentioned would be best)
  2. Anti-Glare
  3. Bluetooth
  4. Multi viapoints
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:confused:

Did you quote the correct post when posting this?
 
mercurial said:
:confused:

Did you quote the correct post when posting this?
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Yeah... I'm pretty sure I did:
mercurial said:
That's useful, but only during the day. At least to me it would be. No one can really look at street names at night, so I would prefer the voice to tell me to turn right. But it would probably still show where to turn, so I guess it's a useful feature.

I am also looking for a GPS and I'm pretty sure that the Nuvi 200 is the best for that price. The wide version is R1999 and the normal one abour R1700. Don't worry about the maps - that you can download from certain places :p
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alf101 said:
You get a free one year subscription to the speed cameras.
Go to tomtom home and download them.
After 1 year it's R399 per year.
Get gps quickfix as well - it finds satellites in less than 30 seconds.

Also a few cool voices to download for free, Darth Vader, Yoda, Hannibal Lecter and a few others I got there.
And plenty of points of interest u can download, wallpapers etc.

This is a pretty good forum with plenty tips if u want to know more.
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/
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Thanks will check it out. I've got the quickfix already because it was one of the updates. Didn't check out the stuff on their website yet though.
 
mikef said:
New maps are not a problem - however the 300 range does not support the "routing" option (i.e the stringing together of waypoints to plan a trip). It also does not support tracking (i.e the ability to see a breadcrumb trail of the actual route covered. I am not sure about this but AFAIK the newer 200 ranges provides limited support for both these features.

However for general road navigation neither of these features are really needed and sometimes, depending on the user, can make the GPS unnecessarily complicated. With the Garmin range you also normally get "Mapsource" which is a nice PC based mapping and routeplanning application allowing you to do route planning on your computers screen and transfer data to and from the GPS. This package also intefaces to Google Earth so you can preview your routes in Google Earth very easily
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hey mikef i think u wrong about that.... i have the nuvi 360 and if you go into your mapsource you have the route planner to plan your trip and once your trip is planned u then export that info back to your nuvi
 
charlie_82 said:
Handsfree for your cellphone...
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the speed trap updates are all free with the garmin you can also download all the toll roads and it will also tell you the amount you should pay why pay R399 a year with tom tom i think they are a clear rip off and to me the tom tom looks and feels and works in a very inferior way i think the nuvi 310 is a good buy the only diference with that compared to my nuvi 360 is that the 360 has overseas maps which the 310 doesnt have, so if have no problems
getting map updates then i dont see why you would have with the 310.,,
the bluetooth feature is also great if you dont want to get pulled off by the cops :D...
 
rexter said:
hey mikef i think u wrong about that.... i have the nuvi 360 and if you go into your mapsource you have the route planner to plan your trip and once your trip is planned u then export that info back to your nuvi
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Mapsource can do fancy routing stuff, doesn't mean your Nuvi can, the fact that you need to do it on Mapsource should tell you something.. All Garmins can pair with Mapsource and import the waypoints, however most Nuvis can not handle the routes [a complete set of waypoints in a certain sequence]. All the points will import into your favorites "raw" without any sequence or ability to "load" the entire route . So you will end up with a gazillion coordinate points and no real tool to force your Garmin to go through them.

Here's a nice Garmin Nuvi Feature comparison chart, look under "Multi Destination Routing", the Nuvi 360 can not do this.

http://gpstracklog.typepad.com/gps_comparisons/garmin-nuvi-comparsion-chart.html

Multi-destination routing – A very nice feature, but not a critical one. If the chart says “no,” you can only enter one destination and one via point. This isn’t problematic since you can easily find locations under Favorites or Recently Found.
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Even though this guy says it's not critical , it depends on what you want to do, for me this is actually extremely critical, i will never buy a GPS again without proper multi-waypoint routing. Besides if you ever want to actually use your Mapsource Routes it IS critical...there's no way i am gonna use my favorites and attempt to manually go between all these waypoints.

On an amusing sidenote: Go watch the Fast and Furious 4 , watch the GPS-race carefully, check that "Rerouting" thing the GPS kept doing [to great annoyance to the driver], believe me, without Multi-Waypoint routing you will be hearing that ALOT. Instead of "Rerouting", the garmins go "Recalculating,Recalculating,Recalculating" till you throw the thing out the window ;)
 
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I would allways go with Garmin! They do the GPS for Airbus and Boing.
 
rexter said:
hey mikef i think u wrong about that.... i have the nuvi 360 and if you go into your mapsource you have the route planner to plan your trip and once your trip is planned u then export that info back to your nuvi
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Yes and no - you can plan a trip in Mapsource and then export the waypoints to your Nuvi's favourites - however you can not export the route as such. There are workarounds available such as giving the waypoints a sequential name making it easy to route to each consecutive destination directly in your Nuvi's favourites. On a GPS with better routing support you need only select the route once and each waypoint is automatically loaded in order.

AFAIK in the Garmin Nuvi range only the 700, 800 and some of the newer 200 range has this facility. I am not sure about the 500 range.
 
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