Need Advice for GPS Novice

epee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 27, 2004 Posts: 1

Please help. My wife needs a simple unit to use in the woods while walking her dogs. What product is light weight, and easy to use? Do these units have maps on a screen like our car unit, or do you navigate some other way in the woods were there are no roads? I find the technololgy and choices confusing.

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:56 am Post subject:

Some of the handheld units (Garmin, Magellan) do allow to download some limited maps . Screen resoluiton is not perfect but should be sufficient for her to find her way back without being overwhelmed by technology.
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Dave · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:25 am Post subject:

If all she wants to do is to find the car again, or to find that spot she walked to last week, then a basic handheld GPS would be best. There's no map, it's just a blank area which plots your starting point and a bread crumb trail as you walk appears on screen. You can setup marks/waypoints along the walk so you can find your way to these by looking on-screen to see where you roughly are in proximity and direction to the waypoint you have saved.

Handheld GPS are cheap, around £100 upwards, if you want full rich colour Ordnance Survey style maps for off-road use, you can go down the route of the PDA, but you'll ultimately be paying around £500-600.

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