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Can anyone recommend a unit that is good for both geocaching and street navigation. I travel for business and would like to have a unit that I can use while i'm in a city. I'd also like to enter a waypoint and go geocaching while i'm there. Or use it when i'm home on the weekends. the Etrex Legend is not good for that. The maps are expensive.

 

Can anyone recommend a good dual use unit?

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Can anyone recommend a unit that is good for both geocaching and street navigation. I travel for business and would like to have a unit that I can use while i'm in a city. I'd also like to enter a waypoint and go geocaching while i'm there. Or use it when i'm home on the weekends. the Etrex Legend is not good for that. The maps are expensive.

 

Can anyone recommend a good dual use unit?

 

Depends on how much you want to pay, and what features you're looking for.

 

Actually, I use the Legend, and find it quite good for dual use. (Driving navigation & Geocaching.)

 

Portable, can easily fit in a Slide-Clamp cell phone holder ]0[ ..

 

I program mine with waypoints via DeLorme Street Atlas USA, which I use for both purposes as well.

(Directions for bus charters, (I drive a schoolbus) and Cache waypoints via GPS-Babel translation to DeLorme Draw file (.AN1))

 

I agree, the maps are expensive! And a bit cumbersome. I bought my Legend in their "Adventure Pack", but never received the "unlock coupon" for Mapsource TOPO.. :D

 

But, it's all about the base two.. Features, and cost.. The Legend has served me well in the past month, finding at least 18 caches so-far, and beaing able to locate places for sports charters while on the road.

 

Stephen (gelfling6)

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If I was going to use one unit for both, it would be the Garmin GPSMAP 60 Csx. But I don't. The reason is that, by the time you buy the car mount, power cable, and street maps, you can get a pretty good dedicated car navigator. I use the MavMan IC 530, which has the SIRF III chipset, and I like it. It's small enough to throw into the suitcase when I travel.

 

Be aware that handheld units, including the 60 Csx, don't give voice directions. IMHO, that's a significant disadvantage.

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.....Be aware that handheld units, including the 60 Csx, don't give voice directions. IMHO, that's a significant disadvantage.

 

I have a 60csx, and much prefer not to have voice prompts. As a matter of fact, I was driving around the other day with one of our visiting grand kids, and he commented on how nice that there was no voice telling me to "turn left on 1st st.", "make a legal U-turn", etc., and that his mothers unit drives him nuts with the constant yapping. I would imagine that you can disable the voice prompt feature if you so desire, but most people probably don't have the where-with-all to read the manual to figure out how to do it, and just leave it the way it is configured from the factory.

 

I guess it's all about what features you want to have on a unit, and what you expect it to do for you. Plenty of research, before you buy, is the best thing you can do to make sure you get exactly what you want. Most people let some (explitive delete) salesman talk them into something that they don't have any idea about, and then complain about what they bought and how it won't do what the salesman said it would do.

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