Rhino 120

[guppie74]

I am here in Japan and was given a Rino 120 as a gift. I am trying to get into this new sport but not sure if this is the right gps unit for me. I went to garmin to see if I can download any types of navigation maps for Okinawa but the one they had wasn't too detailed. Can anyone point me to the right direction?

Thank you!

Edited October 29, 2006 by guppie74

[+El Diablo]

I believe you can only get detailed maps for the U.S or Canada. However, it's still a good unit to cache with. Just not with all the bells and whistles.

 

El Diablo

[+tarbal]

I am here in Japan and was given a Rino 120 as a gift. I am trying to get into this new sport but not sure if this is the right gps unit for me. I went to garmin to see if I can download any types of navigation maps for Okinawa but the one they had wasn't too detailed. Can anyone point me to the right direction?

Thank you!

 

I use a Garmin rino 120 for geocaching. It works great. I do not know about downloading maps for Okinawa but you can download cache coordinates directly from the website and use it that way. You do not need a streetmap to geocache. Do you have a basemap on the unit?

 

Tarbal

[guppie74]

I am here in Japan and was given a Rino 120 as a gift. I am trying to get into this new sport but not sure if this is the right gps unit for me. I went to garmin to see if I can download any types of navigation maps for Okinawa but the one they had wasn't too detailed. Can anyone point me to the right direction?

Thank you!

 

I use a Garmin rino 120 for geocaching. It works great. I do not know about downloading maps for Okinawa but you can download cache coordinates directly from the website and use it that way. You do not need a streetmap to geocache. Do you have a basemap on the unit?

 

Tarbal

[guppie74]

I do have a standard U.S basemap and that all. Thankyou all for answering my questions. I can at least download the coordinates and get started.

[+briansnat]

Garmin does sell maps for various other countries, but I'm not Japan from what I see (kind of odd they have Malaysia maps, but not Japan). Garmin does have Worldmap which gives you a base map for every country. I'm sure it will be at least a bit more useful than the US basemap for you.

[+Pioneer 'n' Tiff]

Garmin Rhino 120 - our choice of weapon to geocache with.

 

This evenign it proved beyond anything I could throw at it (or at anything) that it can take it.

 

Was walking around at the top of a cliff before a descent when I stumbled on the level ground aspahlt. (yes I know!) Garmin fell out, hit antenna first, bounced a couple of times before it catapulted over the edge on danced around about a dozen times before coming to rest on it's face.

 

Damage report: one nick out of the casing and one scratch on the window. Will test the enduracne of the antenna tomorrow.

 

Thanks heaves it doesn't have the bells and whistles, otherwise I may be up for a new unit.

[rydesatnyte]

I just upgraded from a 120 to the older 520 (not hcx) after my 120 took a bath inside the outer pouch of my camelback. Don't trust any claims of water resistance from Garmin. I did some chaching in Iraq while I was there and it worked extremely well usually getting me within sight of most of the larger caches and within reasonable searching distance of the many micro's.

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

Best unit there is in my opinion.

The position reporting comes in very handy sometimes.

 

I do have the Ibyscus 1.4 and 2.01 for it.

I have also learned how to make my own topo's.

 

It holds 8MB so you have plenty of memory.

 

I make other type of personal and 911 maps as well.