GPS In-Car Navigator

DjDangerousDave

I was just looking in maplin and they will have this next week.

http://www.garmin.com/products/spi3/

I have to say i have been reading reviews all morning and i have yet to find a bad one. Is there anyone here that uses GPS in ireland? Im slightly concerned as to the level of coverage that is provided for ireland, but i think it will cover dublin in very good detail and all the national roads also.

Any information would be helpfull.

Nightwish

DjDangerousDave wrote:

I was just looking in maplin and they will have this next week.

http://www.garmin.com/products/spi3/

I have to say i have been reading reviews all morning and i have yet to find a bad one. Is there anyone here that uses GPS in ireland? Im slightly concerned as to the level of coverage that is provided for ireland, but i think it will cover dublin in very good detail and all the national roads also.

Any information would be helpfull.

I use GPS for surveying. But any Garmin system is well worth the money. They are definately one of the market leaders in GPS. I had a look at the spec on the link you posted and it uses a system called WAAS which increases the accuracy to less than 3m, which is excellent for an in car system. Its a good buy.

DjDangerousDave

Which would be better? The one above or

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/medion-mdpna-150.php

Nightwish

bedlam wrote:

WAAS is absolutely useless over here as we don't use it, it is a US only system. The EU equivalent is EGNOS. Most new Garmin products (apart form the etrex yellow and I think camo) support it, and Ireland has been a member or the project since December 2004. EGNOS is set to come online fully some time in 2005

i thought EGNOS was a form of WAAS. That both systems would be compatible with each other?

wolfman

Having owned a lot of GPS systems, I would probably go for the Medion
Yeah...Garmin are good, but their maps/software isnt hectic
Medion GPS units tend to run very good maps, generally Navtech, but the only problem with ANY irish GPS unit, is the roads
They cover cities and thats about it!!

tallus

DjDangerousDave wrote:

Which would be better? The one above or

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/medion-mdpna-150.php

I have used both garmin (streetpilot c320) and a Transonic PNA400 which looks like that Medion model there but not fmiliar with the software it's running. my PNA had Navigon Mobile navigator, which inmy opinion, is harder to use than the garmin software, but is much better once you get used to using it. if you want something that you can plug in to your cigarette lighter straight out of the box go for Garmin... I mean it's pretty user friendly, my old man who is NOT a gadget person and 65 years old was able to use the Garmin after a day.

paul moore

Hi,i use GPS every day for setting out roads,i always use the trimble gear,The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is Europe’s first venture into satellite navigation. It will augment the two military satellite navigation systems now operating, the US GPS and Russian GLONASS systems,this is giving us lots more accuracy.sure within 5 meters for a car is near enough !!!

Pataman

Find out what mapping it uses as a lot of companies dont have great coverage in Ireland.