[W126 Coupe] GPS Recommendations?

[Gary Green]

Not certain if this was already mentioned...

 

http://gpsinformation.net/

 

 

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From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com]
On Behalf Of Shayegan, Richard
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:52 PM
To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] GPS Recommendations?

 

If I could piggy back off this thread, I too am looking for a GPS unit with
a special interest in small handheld units that can log locations (so that
it could be both a nav system, a general gps, and a logging device for me to
later metatag my photos with longitude/latitude info).

Thanks,

Richard

 

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From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com on behalf of flakeymail-benz at yahoo.com
Sent: Thu 3/8/2007 1:39 PM
To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] GPS Recommendations?

Howdy,
garmin rave on:

I love my garmin quest 2, it's windshield mount and goes from car to 
car without needing any goo on the dash.
it can't mute the stereo/bluetooth but it only talks when something 
interesting is about to happen so I turn it up if/when i need to hear 
it.  In practice, I find that by having time or distance to next turn 
displayed while en route, i have a good idea of when i need to pay 
attention.  Not sure if tomtom lets you customize your display as 
much, all the hardcore-geeky gps units form garmin like quest 2 let 
you modify the 4 or so extra data fields you see while en route to be 
any of the 30+ fields available, including time to next turn, dist to 
next turn.

road warrior qualifications:
the quest 2 was enormously useful on my 10k mile quasi 
circumnavigation of the us the xmas before last, and will be on board 
my rental car next week for trip to paris, frankfurt, bremen, 
hamburg, back to paris all by car, and it will be using the same maps/
software license i bought for my garmin gps V back in 1999.   luckily 
they hardly ever build new roads over there.  and, i'm not  afraid of 
change :)   i guess i still use the old maps simply because i can, i 
really should update as i'm in europe 1-2 time a year and i usually  
find my best non-stop fare to the continent and then drive around to 
where i need to be.

Last year I worked a contract job for 3 months in d.c. area, used the 
unit every day for finding food, gas, avoiding crazy ass tolls there, 
etc.
Among my favorite features is "find along route", once you are in 
navigation mode you can find points of interest, etc, near your 
route, awesome for long long interstate drives and also for finding 
decent food/coffee between hotel/work.

garmin rave off, not affiliated, yadda yadda,
can't imagine relying on some windows software (laptop/ppc) for 
navigation, by the way.   Had a navman running on ipaq for about a 
week, returned it.

alex



On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Dick Spellman wrote:


> Hi MBCoupes types:

>

> I am ready to retire the XP laptop/usb to GPS solution I've been 

> running

> for the past few months with Microsoft Streets & Maps.  Works well

> enough but, with the new laptop and Vista OS in hand I think it 

> time to

> just put a GPS gadget on the dash or wherever.  I don't want to spend

> the $ for yet another docking station for the new laptop to sit in 

> the car.

>

> I am looking for a GPS that ideally mutes the Bluetooth radio/sat

> receiver when ready to announce an instruction and that's about it.  I

> use a Plantronics noise canceling earbud for the PPC (a Cingular 8525)

> so no need to duplicate the phone.  If there are any road warriors out

> there, what are you using or have you used and what's good or bad 

> in the

> world of GPS?  Also, have any of you tried and liked PPC/Bluetooth 

> to GPS?

>

> I don't care about talking books or MP3s just need decent navigation

> with a mute command to the sat receiver so i can hear any instruction.

> The phone simply vibrates the earbud in my shirt pocket holder and

> that's simple and works.

>

> I've seen some good and some really bad reviews of GPS so figured 

> maybe

> someones got some experience and can chime in.  I've looked at the

> TomTom and Garmin lines from a 1/2 dozen websites including 

> crutchfield,

> tigerdirect, tigergps, cnet and ebay.   I've read the reviews and 

> remain

> confused.

>

> Hoping for a few ideas.

>

> Dick

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