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Recent reviews for this item: 24tango, May 1, 2012 I like the size of the unit. This is my first GPs and so
far I am having no trouble sorting out instructions hiker, April 18, 2012 Amazing little instrument. I'm no lonfger afraid to hike
alone.
Proble: No directions. On-line manual not helpful. Lots
that owner has to figure out on their own. Should have
documentation on how to use each setting. All it has is
what the settings are. LeoObserver, April 12, 2012 few minutes after I received it, use it, the truth is very
complete! Very accurate. Depends where you clothes, here are
a lot of room open within 10 seconds gave 2 meters apart. The mad triker, April 2, 2012 My prime purpose in purchasing this unit was to collect
geographical information (for updating open source maps) and
to navigation while cycle touring and kayaking. After
messing around with this my first GPS, I am reasonably
impressed. I am very impressed with its battery life and
that it is made to used NiMH (1.2 volt) batteries. The maps
that the unit comes with are awful and to the point of being
but completely useless. I loaded routable OpenStreetMaps
from garmin.openstreetmap.nl onto a 8GB sim and now I have
all the up to date road maps for Canada and the boarder
states (some data is missing but I can add it).
Topographical information is freely available but I have not
dug through the requirements that are required to add it to
the maps as yet. I found the manuals, including Garmin
online one, overly minimalistic to the point of being nearly
useless thank goodness for the Internet and other users. I
was very impressed by Garmin product support as I had a
problem upgrading the software. They were quick and
informative, though a good manual would have been better. I
tried out the road navigation and found it to be adequate
and really liked that it didn't talk to me only beeped
occasionally. The unit's files are easy to access from
Linux platform (and any other platform ) as it has mass
storage mode.
I have the navigation crash once (through it went back into
display mode) and I tried to add and display a track
extending across Canada that froze the unit. In the deep
canyons of the Vancouver Metro scape the was a bit of drift
(which made the displayed track look noisy) otherwise it
seemed to be extremely accurate. Because of the accuracy of
this device it is too bad that they left out NMEA capabilities.
