FlagFinder Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Garmin and Magellan are cutting back on units! one day i was reading ads in the paper and noticed many extreme sales on units so i went online to the site and noticed maggelan cut back on the meridians yet some places still have them in stock. also Garmin has just recently cut the etrex vista c and etrex legend C and they still can be purchased at your local retailer. so this forum is for your info. but finally lets make a dream GPS if you made a gps wut features would it have? i would want sattilite radio. how bout you? Quote Link to comment
+Train_Man Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 A GPS that can read pocket queries! It's so simple programming and yet they just don't understand we want it! Quote Link to comment
+Sled Head Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I want one that will read outside temp. and display it in a graph like the altimiter page on a garmin. And since this is a wish list why not add humidity and the ability to overlay the graphs so you could see the temp decrease compared to elevation gain etc. BTW: The vista C and Legend C were replaced by the Cx models. Why be limited to 24mb when you can have expandable memory for basicly the same price. Quote Link to comment
Dragonmaster13 Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I want a gps that can take the various maps they make for them and display them all at the same time with the ability to tun various layers off if you don't want them. Quote Link to comment
+Binrat Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Too easy. Add an Infrared Port to the GPS. This way you don't have to be a slave to a cable all the time and out in the field you can "beam" co-ords to a buddy to give him the latest numbers. Binrat Quote Link to comment
+tomfuller & Quill Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Handcrank, 60 seconds cranking = 1 hour of use like my safety LED light. Or, shake for power like some of the newer batteryless flashlights. Do Magellan & Garmin get kickbacks from the AA battery manufacturers? Quote Link to comment
+roadrage64 Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 The ability to save your settings to a config file, like you can do with a wireless router. There are so many settings on these newer units that it would be nice to be able to do a restore to get back your custom settings in the event that the unit has to be replaced. Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 A GPS that can read pocket queries! It's so simple programming and yet they just don't understand we want it! Garmin has had GPSes that'll read PQ's for over a year. Copy a PQ to a Nuvi, C5x0, or Zumo class product and it'll eat them right up. But since both Garmin and Magellan ship (Windows) software that reads GPX files these days, it's not really that bad for most users. Quote Link to comment
+HotFix Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 How about a digital camera that will tag photos with cords? There are a lot of things I'd like in my electronics, but this would be the best feature to use for geocaching. Quote Link to comment
FlagFinder Posted December 26, 2006 Author Share Posted December 26, 2006 just checked out the wal mart near my house they finaly sold all thier merridians Quote Link to comment
NewZealand Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 I want a gps that can take the various maps they make for them and display them all at the same time with the ability to tun various layers off if you don't want them. But this is already possible.Just make e.g. your topo maps transparent and activate them together with Citynavigator. Then you will have both on your display. I do that since I started using the topo maps (used only CN at first). Quote Link to comment
+gpsblake Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 just checked out the wal mart near my house they finaly sold all thier merridians They still got them at my local Walmart and still are asking $199 for them even though they have been discontinued for quite some time. Quote Link to comment
+jimmyreno Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 How about a digital camera that will tag photos with cords? There are a lot of things I'd like in my electronics, but this would be the best feature to use for geocaching. I think these are already on the market, the local government has them for several types of land use planning. Don't know what the cost is. Quote Link to comment
+MadDogAnger Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 I want a "forward" view that displays something like this when you scroll in any direction: And if we are really dreaming here, I too want the temperature/humidity/barometric features already mentioned combined with a realtime NEXRAD and IR satellite image delivered via cell technology to overlay on the "weather" screen. Quote Link to comment
+MadDogAnger Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I want a "forward" view that displays something like this when you scroll in any direction: And if we are really dreaming here, I too want the temperature/humidity/barometric features already mentioned combined with a realtime NEXRAD and IR satellite image delivered via cell technology to overlay on the "weather" screen. THANKS GARMIN!!!! I love this feature on the new Colorado 400t!!!! We're about half way there from what I was invisioning . . . but this is a good incremental development in mapping on the handheld! Now let's get to work on the second half of my suggestion!!! Quote Link to comment
+TakeTheLongWay Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I'm a PN-20 user and I'm very satisfied with it. My only two requests would be a bigger screen and a electronic compass, other then that I love my PN-20. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Garmin and Magellan are cutting back on units! one day i was reading ads in the paper and noticed many extreme sales on units so i went online to the site and noticed maggelan cut back on the meridians yet some places still have them in stock. also Garmin has just recently cut the etrex vista c and etrex legend C and they still can be purchased at your local retailer. so this forum is for your info. but finally lets make a dream GPS if you made a gps wut features would it have? i would want sattilite radio. how bout you? I can't believe nobody responded to that. It already exists on the Bushnell 400cr. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 How about a digital camera that will tag photos with cords? There are a lot of things I'd like in my electronics, but this would be the best feature to use for geocaching. Magellan Triton 2000. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I want a gps that can take the various maps they make for them and display them all at the same time with the ability to tun various layers off if you don't want them. But this is already possible.Just make e.g. your topo maps transparent and activate them together with Citynavigator. Then you will have both on your display. I do that since I started using the topo maps (used only CN at first). Closest GPS units: Magellan Triton 2000, Delorme PN-20, Bushnell 400cr and as noted Garmin has a a way of doing this. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 (edited) I want a "forward" view that displays something like this when you scroll in any direction: And if we are really dreaming here, I too want the temperature/humidity/barometric features already mentioned combined with a realtime NEXRAD and IR satellite image delivered via cell technology to overlay on the "weather" screen. Magellan Meridian Platinum has the sensors for temp and barometer. Bushnell 400cr has satellite capability for weather overlays. Edited February 13, 2008 by TotemLake Quote Link to comment
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