Hi I have just recieved a garmin 60 as a early xmas present have taken it out of the box read the instructions and then thats it. It appears to be too complicated for my female brain and I think I'll stick to a map and pedometer. So unless anyone can advice me I will be selling it. Are there any takers out there. Bargain price of £80-00.
Hi helen.
No stick at it, even the basics are worth having it for.
When I first got mine not the one you have, but I thought I would never get to grips with it. But the main use to me was to tell me exactly were I was, I still used the Ordnance survey maps and my compass, but it was a blessing in the middle of Dartmoor to know were I was to within a few meters.
Regards
Rex
Post last edited on 18/11/2007 21:38:41
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What exactly do you want your GPS to do for you, is it just to pinpoint your location, to find a certain position, to plot routes. Once you know what you want from them they are pretty straight forward. Perhaps I can help. I have a Garmin but it's a different model, I use it all the time when I'm out walking or Geocaching, just remember you should always use it with a map, not instead of one.
Prehaps that's my problem, it won't do what I want. I want to use it like a sat nav, put in my planed route, and it tell me where I am so I'll know if I have gone of on the wrong direction.
I haven't yet take the plunge and bought one but I have a useful book I bought a while ago. Here's the updated edition to mine - it's pretty good to get you started and you can get it cheap too.
A lot of folk mistakenly think that you can load maps on hand-held GPS units so they can be used instead of a map/compass. Whilst some units (the GPS60 amongst them) can hold some mapping, they can't hold, for example, ordnance survey maps.
So they're best used in combination with a computer and some mapping software such as MemoryMap or Anquet. You then use the mapping software to plan a route and download it to the unit.
Once out and about you can then refer to the unit which, with an arrow, shows you what direction your route takes and how close you are to it.
You can also read your location (beware: Not all units will quote your location in OS GB grid refs) off the unit and then check where you are on your map, which you're best advised to carry.
If you want a unit with mapping as well you could look at a Pocket PC with a built in GPS or a separate bluetooth GPS receiver which, when used with Memory Map, will act more like a 'sat-nav'
For loads of info on usage see the links below. I also use a GPS60 and use Fugawi mapping software on the PC to make up routes and waypoints and then transfer the info to my GPS when I'm happy with it.
A lot of folk mistakenly think that you can load maps on hand-held GPS units so they can be used instead of a map/compass. Whilst some units (the GPS60 amongst them) can hold some mapping, they can't hold, for example, ordnance survey maps.
You can also read your location (beware: Not all units will quote your location in OS GB grid refs) off the unit and then check where you are on your map, which you're best advised to carry.
If you want a unit with mapping as well you could look at a Pocket PC with a built in GPS or a separate bluetooth GPS receiver which, when used with Memory Map, will act more like a 'sat-nav'
Still got the garmin 60 went out at the weekend and took it with us it was able to inform us that we walked 13.8 miles at 3.4 miles per hour.We arrived home and then transfered the route on to the computer and could see exctly were we had wlked ong the map. Now I'm very happy with it!!
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Topic: Garmin 60 GPS
