Geocaching/turn by turn navigation solution required for Win XP platform

[Dukeswharf]

Hi,

I am a complete newbie to the world of Geocaching and am in the process of purchasing a Panasonic CF-U1 (Win XP) with GPS and am looking for a geocaching/turn by turn navigation solution, exactly like the Garmin Discoverer solution, that will work on transportable Win XP systems:

 

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/uk/c...6252B09B96A9827

 

So, in a nutshell, my requirements are:

 

1. Turn by turn 1:25K scale maps of entire UK with all the facilities offered by the Gamin solution.

 

Does any such navigation/geocaching solution for the Win XP platform exist?

 

Many thanks in advance.

[+kewfriend]

The Memory map website is your obvious first port of call but the posted price of £300 for all UK(premium) is steep and now heavily discounted. Thats of course the 1:50000, and the 1:25000 is pricier still. The data comes on DVD.

 

Before mapped GPS really took off we used an XP Laptop and Autoroute loaded up which worked surprisingly well when Autoroute was connected to a GPS: the GPS signal update protocols were tiresomely slow then and have much improved.

[+mongoose39uk]

I have used this in the past Navigator

[Dukeswharf]

Many thanks, kewfriend & mongoose39uk.

 

Switching between 'Memory-Map Landranger' and 'Navigator 8', using GpsGate (http://franson.com/gpsgate/), should have me pretty much covered.

 

Many thanks in advance.