Looking for a good & inexpensive GPS

SquadRat1 · 03-07-2007, 03:38 PM

unit for hiking and maybe use in my vehicles? Anyone suggest any?

Elspode · 03-07-2007, 03:53 PM

I've enjoyed my Garmin Legend quite a lot. There's lots spiffier color, higher rez portables out there today, but these are tough and pretty inexpensive, especially used on *bay.

wolf · 03-08-2007, 01:47 PM

One of my patients has been using a Tom-Tom to track his wife's movements. It appears to work very well, since when his brother found where the patient had hidden it in the wife's car car and removed it, the patient was able to find the device using the "use the internet to see where your bad teenager is going with your car" feature and presumably replaced it in the car.

SteveDallas · 03-08-2007, 03:17 PM

So did he catch up with the wife??

footfootfoot · 03-08-2007, 06:28 PM

xoxoxoBruce · 03-09-2007, 09:15 AM

No I'm not, you're not putting me on the spot.

tw · 03-09-2007, 02:33 PM

Cell phone are chock full of functions that must be disabled by the phone company (i.e. Nokia) to sell their products via the cell phone companies (i.e. Cingular). For example, cell phones have WiFi. Setup your phone and every laptop in the room can have high speed internet access. That function has been disabled (but it will work if you cell phone was originally purchased in Europe).

Another function also disabled would keep a running total of your minutes. Cingular also demanded that function be disabled so that you will not know how much phone time remains.

GPS is also in cell phones. Push a button. Then walk to another point. Push a button again. Now you have measured the distance.

GPS tied to a database works just fine on cell phones. But again, some cell phone companies want the function disabled - a free function only enabled when you use only their GPS service.

Cell phone is expected to even replace the credit card. But again, the 'powers that be' fear innovation just as the RIAA feared music downloading. Welcome to a world chock full of options - but you cannot be trusted to know those functions even exist.

Sundae · 03-09-2007, 03:17 PM

In Britain you can have the "cell" you are in displayed on your phone. In practice this means the first half of the postcode.

Never found a use for it, but it proves TW's point.

Hagar · 03-09-2007, 03:20 PM

I'm playing with a Garmin GPS 60 at the moment - Geocaching etc. So far it seems pretty good. It's only black & white but seems very accurate.

03-07-2007, 03:38 PM	#1
SquadRat1 Caste-Away Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 48	Looking for a good & inexpensive GPS unit for hiking and maybe use in my vehicles? Anyone suggest any?

03-07-2007, 03:53 PM	#2
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I've enjoyed my Garmin Legend quite a lot. There's lots spiffier color, higher rez portables out there today, but these are tough and pretty inexpensive, especially used on *bay. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-08-2007, 01:47 PM	#3
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	One of my patients has been using a Tom-Tom to track his wife's movements. It appears to work very well, since when his brother found where the patient had hidden it in the wife's car car and removed it, the patient was able to find the device using the "use the internet to see where your bad teenager is going with your car" feature and presumably replaced it in the car. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-08-2007, 06:28 PM	#5
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	__________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-09-2007, 09:15 AM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No I'm not, you're not putting me on the spot. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-08-2007, 03:17 PM	#4
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	So did he catch up with the wife??

03-09-2007, 02:33 PM	#7
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Cell phone are chock full of functions that must be disabled by the phone company (i.e. Nokia) to sell their products via the cell phone companies (i.e. Cingular). For example, cell phones have WiFi. Setup your phone and every laptop in the room can have high speed internet access. That function has been disabled (but it will work if you cell phone was originally purchased in Europe). Another function also disabled would keep a running total of your minutes. Cingular also demanded that function be disabled so that you will not know how much phone time remains. GPS is also in cell phones. Push a button. Then walk to another point. Push a button again. Now you have measured the distance. GPS tied to a database works just fine on cell phones. But again, some cell phone companies want the function disabled - a free function only enabled when you use only their GPS service. Cell phone is expected to even replace the credit card. But again, the 'powers that be' fear innovation just as the RIAA feared music downloading. Welcome to a world chock full of options - but you cannot be trusted to know those functions even exist.

03-09-2007, 03:17 PM	#8
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	In Britain you can have the "cell" you are in displayed on your phone. In practice this means the first half of the postcode. Never found a use for it, but it proves TW's point. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

03-09-2007, 03:20 PM	#9
Hagar Master of the Domain Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 220	I'm playing with a Garmin GPS 60 at the moment - Geocaching etc. So far it seems pretty good. It's only black & white but seems very accurate.

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