[OSM-talk] Good deal on Garmin GPS unit

[Andy Armstrong]

On 5 Jul 2006, at 10:24, Dan Karran wrote:
> - it's rather large compared to my eTrex (though it's relatively  
> light)

Huge, innit? :)

> - it didn't manage to get a lock on 3 satellites whilst walking to
> work, whereas I think my eTrex does... I should really have waited to
> let it get a lock before walking, but I was late already  :)

Mine took nearly half an hour to get its head together - I thought it  
was faulty. Eventually it worked where everything was and now it gets  
a fix within < 1 min from power up and gets a +/- 4m 3d fix shortly  
thereafter.

> - it's nice to have the mapping, base data for europe and ability to
> search for places

Yup, good gazetteer - it's got places around here I've never heard  
of. It doesn't have all the local roads though (I'm in the middle of  
nowhere^h Cumbria in the UK).

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net