[v10kingsnake]

MyGiG does the bread crumb and save trails.

I have a Keenwood DNX9140 that uses Garmin, supposedly I can load topo maps on it, but I havent tried it yet. I don't think it can do bread crumb though.

The bread crumb feature has saved my ass many times from getting lost off road.

 

[svtmaniac]

Backcountry Navigator on the Droid! For like $10 you have a system that is always up to date and have every feature of a stand alone GPS unit. You can download maps for an entire area before you go out so that even if you don't have a cell signal you will still have the GPS and the maps at hand. I'll never go back to stand alone GPS again.

 

[jeepchic55]

I ended up picking up a Nuvi 1390 LMT for pretty cheap. I liked the Bluetooth feature and will load TOPO 24k. I may even try to find a used handheld unit.

 

[mschaffer66]

Backcountry Navigator on the Droid! For like $10 you have a system that is always up to date and have every feature of a stand alone GPS unit. You can download maps for an entire area before you go out so that even if you don't have a cell signal you will still have the GPS and the maps at hand. I'll never go back to stand alone GPS again.

Tell me more...

I downloaded the demo. But I fooked up and didn't download the maps ahead of time and had no data service where I was at.

Did you buy the "better" topo maps that they have? Or just the freebie ones?

The little bit I used the demo I wasn't overly enthused because it seems like the topos were just old charts that they scanned in and had horrible resolution from anything closer than like a mile scale.

Maybe I was doing something wrong...that could totally be the case.

 

[Panamon Creel]

I ended up picking up a Nuvi 1390 LMT for pretty cheap. I liked the Bluetooth feature and will load TOPO 24k. I may even try to find a used handheld unit.

Yeah I think that was a better choice, that way you'll have lifetime update on the City Navigator/NT map and can load the topo map on your computer. Just note that the downloadable version of Topo is locked to one device, whereas the DVD version is not (or at least was not)

 

[jeepchic55]

Yeah I think that was a better choice, that way you'll have lifetime update on the City Navigator/NT map and can load the topo map on your computer. Just note that the downloadable version of Topo is locked to one device, whereas the DVD version is not (or at least was not)

Thanks for the tip. DVD it is