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    car navigation

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    51 minutes ago, Mineral2 said:

    I think having a Drive model for the car would be great, just for general road navigation anyway. Not every logging road is on the City Navigator maps, but most of the driveable forest service and BLM roads are and, at the very least, it's an easy point of reference to look at while driving. The screens are big, and the touch screen is easy to use. You can now even create and save routes ahead of time and load them to the GPS.

    But, in light of the new knowledge that he is using a very old handheld GPS, I also think that he'd do well with a newer GPS - maybe an Oregon 700, or even an Oregon 600 - they can be found for cheap on occasion.  I guess it depends whether he would enjoy a touch screen handheld model - if you're interested in going down this route, I suppose you could take him to your nearest outdoor gear shop and have him try out the Oregons, gpsmap 64 or 66 models, or the eTrex 20x or 30x. Mostly because loading geocaches onto these devices is much easier than with the older devices. But as I mentioned previously, the Oregon units have a mode that mimics a Nuvi vehicle GPS (must install a routable map), which makes it nice for geocaching. But even the other models will let you install routable maps and follow road directions to a destination.

    Thank you.  Maybe taking him into the outdoors store in town and trying some of the gps units would not be a bad idea!

    car navigation

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    4 hours ago, Red90 said:

    It works the same with a Nuvi, more or less as with his handheld.  He needs to navigate to parking coordinates if they exist or use his brain to figure out where to park.  I'm pretty sure with that many finds, he is capable of figuring it out.

     

    How has he been navigating in the car so far (sorry f this was mentioned, too lazy to read the whole thread)?

    LOL  He's been printing out maps on paper and taking them with him!

    car navigation

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    5 minutes ago, Red90 said:

    How did he find 7,360 caches without knowing how to upload to the GPS?

    He can upload caches to his garmin with little problem.   He's been doing that for years with obvious success.  What I'm looking for for him is a car/vehicle gps unit.  We're getting a new to us car, but it doesn't have navigation on it and I'd like to gift him that so he doesn't have a problem with the BLM roads that change constantly in NM.

    car navigation

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    I use my Nuvi to get me to an unfamiliar area (and back out again), to a selected parking area.

    This is the info I needed, thank you.  Very few caches out here are in towns or near roads; they're mostly out in the back of the beyond in the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) and roads seem to appear and disappear there along with gates being closed.  He's been trapped a few times and it's taken him hours to get back out.

    car navigation

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    4 minutes ago, Red90 said:

     

    Yes, no problem.  You can download the caches to the Nuvis.

     

    https://www.gpscity.com/gps-receivers/&p=1&c=2&t=automotive+gps

     

    I'm totally ignorant about gps, geocaching and anything to do  with it so please forgive my ignorance.  So any Garmin nuvi will allow you to input gps coordinates to a cache and then it will guide you to it?  Or does it have to be a specific nuvi?  He is so NOT technical so I want to get him something simple and effective for the BLM lands out here in the West.

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