[talk-au] Garmin Handheld with osm and shonkymaps

[Ross Scanlon]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for that.

Most of the areas we are intending on travelling to at the moment have
little or no osm coverage, even the roads.

So the 4x4 will have the vehicle pc with osm and topo maps on gpsdrive and
the hand held will have shonkymaps, which are similar to the topomaps on
the 4x4, and what osm data that is there.

>From these two we will probably go with the 76Csx, which can be bought
cheaper than a 60Csx at the moment.

Now the next question, how big (8Gb, 16Gb) a microSD card can these use. 
I can see no info in the specs and none of the retailers show this either.


Cheers
Ross



> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm looking at buying a handheld gps, probably Garmin, that can have the
>> osm maps and shonkymaps loaded.
>>
>> This will mainly be used for bushwalking, thus the shonkymaps, so I'd
>> like
>> to be able to have both available all the time.
>>
>> Is anyone here using a Garmin with osm maps and/or shonkymaps? If which
>> model?
>>
> I have the Garmin etrex legend HCx and I use it with OSM maps and
> Contours Australia v2.00 (10m contours) for bushwalking and mountain
> biking.  I'm very happy with it.
>
> I previously owned a vanilla etrex legend.  It worked but I love the
> the high sensitivity receiver, the colour screen and the much quicker
> loading of maps onto the GPS that the HCx offers over the vanilla
> model.
>
> I used to also have shonkymaps installed on my etrex legend but
> haven't bothered to reinstall it on my new system, mainly because OSM
> seems to have better coverage of the dirt roads where I've been lately
> plus it also does routing to get me to the start point of where I want
> to go.
>
> Regards,
> Pete
>


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Cheers
Ross