Designing Routes on Sat Navs - why so painful (and expensive
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Hi
I have read Gareth's excellent sat nav page on his site, which at least explained some of the options on this to me.
I currently have a basic Garmin StreetPilot i3 sat nav and was considering buying a Garmin 710. The i3 is basic, but has served me well, but I'd like to be able to follow the routes on the aduk days as my nav skills are hopeless. I think the 710 would be fine for this - it certainly supports importing of route files.
However, I'd also like to be able to design routes for such days, or for my associates, or for myself to bimble around unexplored roads.
I don't want to spend the extra money on buying the map data again for my PC (Garmin's support line have verified I'd need to do this, which would cost almost as much as the 710 itself).
How do others on here generate the routes? I could generate them on the device itself, but the problem is I don't know how usable it is for that. When I tried one in Halfords, it didn't have a signal inside the store, so I couldn't try this function.
Basically, I am not happy about paying for the maps to run on the device and also for the same maps on my PC - I think that's outrageous!
Maybe I need to buy something that's not a Garmin?
Thanks for any advice
Mark
I have read Gareth's excellent sat nav page on his site, which at least explained some of the options on this to me.
I currently have a basic Garmin StreetPilot i3 sat nav and was considering buying a Garmin 710. The i3 is basic, but has served me well, but I'd like to be able to follow the routes on the aduk days as my nav skills are hopeless. I think the 710 would be fine for this - it certainly supports importing of route files.
However, I'd also like to be able to design routes for such days, or for my associates, or for myself to bimble around unexplored roads.
I don't want to spend the extra money on buying the map data again for my PC (Garmin's support line have verified I'd need to do this, which would cost almost as much as the 710 itself).
How do others on here generate the routes? I could generate them on the device itself, but the problem is I don't know how usable it is for that. When I tried one in Halfords, it didn't have a signal inside the store, so I couldn't try this function.
Basically, I am not happy about paying for the maps to run on the device and also for the same maps on my PC - I think that's outrageous!
Maybe I need to buy something that's not a Garmin?
Thanks for any advice
Mark