rusheriv
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Voice of experience; Spend wisely once. If you don't have the $ to get the good one save until you can otherwise your may be pissing away your money.
Garmin, Magellan and TomTom all make good GPS units, some not so good, but Garmin leads the market (35% share) and it's navigation engine is 2nd to none. I've used Magellan in Hertz rentals, my brother has a Megellan, we have a TomTom (daughter's b-day gift from my brother) and I have two Garmins. When we go on a trip there's no question which GPS is going with, the Garmin!
When I was looking for a GPS for my bike I was looking for one that I could plan routes. Most any GPS can get you from A to B, but there's a handful that allow you to control which way to go. Looking at what was out there I too was sticker shocked by those specifically made for motorcycles. Thinking I could get away with a cheaper model, my initial GPS was a Nuvi 265WT. What a mistake that was!
Not that the Nuvi 265WT is a bad GPS, it just didn't do what I was looking to do. It offers A to B navigation and a lot of other features, but it also gives the ability to add 1000 waypoints. Which is what drew me to buy it, I figured that I could tell it to go A to B via multiple waypoints. The perfect alternative to the expensive models offering routing or so I thought. What I didn't account for was a very strong navigation engine behind the scenes constantly analyzing my directions and tweaking them to make them faster or shorter, not good when you want to take that long winding road and the GPS boxes around it. And while adding multiple waypoints all along the route, even between crossroads, helped put me back in control (somewhat), it proved to be very time consuming fighting with the navigation engine. I gave up, the GPS won and I went shopping again!
We still use the 265WT all the time in the cars/truck but for carving the Florida backroads my Zumo 660 leads the way.
Garmin, Magellan and TomTom all make good GPS units, some not so good, but Garmin leads the market (35% share) and it's navigation engine is 2nd to none. I've used Magellan in Hertz rentals, my brother has a Megellan, we have a TomTom (daughter's b-day gift from my brother) and I have two Garmins. When we go on a trip there's no question which GPS is going with, the Garmin!
When I was looking for a GPS for my bike I was looking for one that I could plan routes. Most any GPS can get you from A to B, but there's a handful that allow you to control which way to go. Looking at what was out there I too was sticker shocked by those specifically made for motorcycles. Thinking I could get away with a cheaper model, my initial GPS was a Nuvi 265WT. What a mistake that was!
Not that the Nuvi 265WT is a bad GPS, it just didn't do what I was looking to do. It offers A to B navigation and a lot of other features, but it also gives the ability to add 1000 waypoints. Which is what drew me to buy it, I figured that I could tell it to go A to B via multiple waypoints. The perfect alternative to the expensive models offering routing or so I thought. What I didn't account for was a very strong navigation engine behind the scenes constantly analyzing my directions and tweaking them to make them faster or shorter, not good when you want to take that long winding road and the GPS boxes around it. And while adding multiple waypoints all along the route, even between crossroads, helped put me back in control (somewhat), it proved to be very time consuming fighting with the navigation engine. I gave up, the GPS won and I went shopping again!
We still use the 265WT all the time in the cars/truck but for carving the Florida backroads my Zumo 660 leads the way.
