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Mule Fri 30 Sep 2016 01:59:24 No.866352 View View Report

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>>866235
Figure out what features you want. Form factor, external I/O (Bluetooth/short-range radio, USB, serial, external power), size/form-factor (Handheld, wrist-mount, dash-mount, touch-screen vs. hard-buttons), etc.

Any device worth spending money on today can download and display maps - These can be additional $$ (Garmin Topo or CityNavigator) or free (sites like openstreetmap, gpsfiledepot). I don't recommend a receiver without an external/MicroSD card slot.

Foretrex is decent. Montana's kind of "the standard" for trail/offroad use. 6x/7x offer hard buttons, and the 7x has the big heavy-duty 4-pin round connector.

Phones ... have better screen resolution, maps update real-time as long as you have service... I don't care for the UI much. Takes too many buttons/keys/menus to do what a "real" GPS does with one or two buttons.

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Mule Sat 26 Jul 2014 20:38:28 No.356478 View View Report

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They're fine for navigation. A lot more convenient than a map/compass, for a quick "how far am i from ___".

I say not to rely on it for nav till you've used it, because there's tricks to using them, and without being familiar with what a GPS receiver is and does, and what it doesn't do, is pretty important.

>Be me, snowmobiling a few years back
>Riding buddy got a fancy-ass new GPS, showing it off before we headed out
>Stop in a meadow to play around for a bit before we headed back to the trucks
>Another group shows up, screws around in teh same meadow
>We start to head out, buddy and his wife follows the other group
>Wait at the edge of the meadow for a while, expecting him to realize his mistake
>Try to raise him on the radio, nothing
>Wait like 30 minutes
>Start heading back, stay on the trail, and take it slower than we would have
>Back at the trucks, buddy/wife still not there
>Try to raise him on the radio again, send him some texts... nothing
>A few of us get geared up again
>Just as we're getting ready to go back innawoods, buddy and wife show up
>Followed the GPS, and ended up going the wrong way for about 20 miles
>Wife pulled out paper map, said "we're over here, need to be back here, fuck you and your GPS i'm going this way"
>wife started going, buddy wisely followed
>Buddy was furious, his wife tried to calm him, but later that evening he admitted he'd have done the same thing

And yeah, one little crash is all it takes to destroy a GPS. They're tough, but...

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