I have a Garmin eTrex HCx that I bought on sale at REI, bundled with Mapsource US Topos. Mapsource also sells Blue Charts for navigation and maps that can be used for automobile use (North America, Mexico, Europe, & Australia and New Zealand, Asia and Africa). You load the additional maps into the GPS on MicroSD cards (the internal base map for North America has towns and major highways). It connects to a PC via a USB port. It works as advertised, but I find the color screen a little small for easy reading. Unfortunately, I haven't relied on it that much, since I usually know right where I am. My boating is on inland waters and eyeball navigation suffices.
Ron Force Moscow Idaho USA On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Craig Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never owned a GPS unit, and the time has come to buy a handheld unit, > for use at the present time with topo maps in the US > southwest. > > I'd be interested in your opinions of the various models and manufacturers > currently available. > > I would like for it to interface to other devices easily, and to a PC. > > Any advice? > > TIA! > > Craig > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html >
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