Road Angel Adventure 7000

[+geosmitti]

I am wondering if anyone has experience with Road Angel Adventurer 7000? It is advertised on the Memory-Map UK website. I am contemplating a trip to England and would do a lot of walking. It has the ability to use Ordnance Survey maps. Any info would be appreciated.

Edited January 29, 2009 by geosmitti

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The road angel was on my shortlist for a while.

if you are going to come here on a walking holiday

i would bring a laptop loaded with memory map,

use the software to plan your routes,

then transfer the routs to a proper gps.

even the basic etrex or gps60 are more suited

to our climate.

or push the boat out and get a 60cx or csx

loaded with topo gb.

 

you dont say in your post if you already owh a gps unit.

 

if you do come here.

hope you enjoy our small but beautiful piece of the planet.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laldog/

[+geosmitti]

Yes, England is a beautiful piece of the planet – lots of neat things to see and do – fabulous place to walk. This will be our fifth trip!

 

On my laptop I have 3 memory-map products – Greater London – Norfolk Broads (1:25,000) and the Cotswolds (1:25,000). I have a Colorado 300 GPS. My original plan was to purchase Garmin’s Topo for England; however, I bought Garmin’s Topo for Canada – very disappointing. Compared to a regular paper Topo or other Topo software it comes in a distant last. From the Garmin web site looking at the Topo for England (doesn’t work very well at all) it looks like it is not even close to the excellent Ordnance Survey software. I don’t believe it is possible to download maps from OS software to the 300.

 

So I though I would be able to use the Road Angel as a GPS and be able to download memory-map OS maps and AZ Greater London maps to the Road Angel.

 

Would be interested in why you removed the Road Angel from your short list. Do you think it would be a mistake on my part to buy the RA?

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here you go.

released just in time for your trip.

 

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/uk/c...0D1D620C8B43E0B]My Webpage[/url]

[+mabboz]

I Have a Road angel Navigator/Adventurer 7000 and use it all the time for walking/driving/biking/geocaching.

The Navigator/Adventurer 7000 are identical units both car Sat nav's with the potential to show Ordnance survey mapping, the Adventurer comes with SD card already loaded with MM mobile software whereas the Navigator does not but you can load MM yourself if you already have the PC version ( i.e. if you already have MM on your PC save yourself £100 and get the Navigator the difference IS the MM) I have 4 x 2GB SD cards and have RA sat nav and MM operating system on all 3, then on 1 I have northern England on 1 Middle England and the 3rd Southern. The last has the area Cumbria in greater detail with aerial mapping

If you don't know where you are going then use the sat nav, if your familiar with the area use it in the car with a live OS map that always pinpoints your position. Park up and go walking - you carnt get lost you always have your position, download geocaches and you have all the details (hint etc if you use GSAK) to use in a foreign country I would say it is a very useful "all in one"

Any questions about it feel free to ask I've been using 2 years and are quite happy with it

What has size got to do with it?

[+geosmitti]

here you go.

released just in time for your trip.

 

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/uk/c...0D1D620C8B43E0B]My Webpage[/url]

 

Thanks for the tip. Looks interesting - seems no prices yet.

Edited January 31, 2009 by geosmitti

[+geosmitti]

I Have a Road angel Navigator/Adventurer 7000 and use it all the time for walking/driving/biking/geocaching.

The Navigator/Adventurer 7000 are identical units both car Sat nav's with the potential to show Ordnance survey mapping, the Adventurer comes with SD card already loaded with MM mobile software whereas the Navigator does not but you can load MM yourself if you already have the PC version ( i.e. if you already have MM on your PC save yourself £100 and get the Navigator the difference IS the MM) I have 4 x 2GB SD cards and have RA sat nav and MM operating system on all 3, then on 1 I have northern England on 1 Middle England and the 3rd Southern. The last has the area Cumbria in greater detail with aerial mapping

If you don't know where you are going then use the sat nav, if your familiar with the area use it in the car with a live OS map that always pinpoints your position. Park up and go walking - you carnt get lost you always have your position, download geocaches and you have all the details (hint etc if you use GSAK) to use in a foreign country I would say it is a very useful "all in one"

Any questions about it feel free to ask I've been using 2 years and are quite happy with it

What has size got to do with it?

 

Thanks for the answer. Size has nothing to do with it. I am a novice user of forums( an old guy who is kind of clueless) and I am not sure what I did to get that word size there. Also I may not be getting this reply correct. But the important thing is - thanks for the info and I may ask you some more questions soon.

Edited January 31, 2009 by geosmitti

[+mabboz]

No worries, ask away when your ready

[Fungal infection]

here you go.

released just in time for your trip.

 

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/uk/c...0D1D620C8B43E0B]My Webpage[/url]

 

Thanks for the tip. Looks interesting - seems no prices yet.

 

the lake district area retails for around £125 i belive.

plus the link below may be some help

 

My Webpage

[Fungal infection]

here you go.

released just in time for your trip.

 

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/uk/c...0D1D620C8B43E0B]My Webpage[/url]

 

Thanks for the tip. Looks interesting - seems no prices yet.

 

the lake district area retails for around £125 i belive.

plus the link below may be some help

 

My Webpage

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oh, the road angel lost out because it did not take AA batterys.

i needed a unit that could be left on all the time i was out and

cope with real low temps. the RA is a good mapping gps though.

[+geosmitti]

oh, the road angel lost out because it did not take AA batterys.

i needed a unit that could be left on all the time i was out and

cope with real low temps. the RA is a good mapping gps though.

Yes, I can see battery life is a factor. My wife and I have vacationed in England 4 times for a total time of a little over 4 months. People always ask us what is your favorite part and would you go back to a specific area. We say wherever we have been is our favorite spot, yes we would go back to every place we have been and yes we want to go to very place we haven’t been. Do you have a favorite place to walk and/or GPS that you would recommend to a couple in their sixties that are able to walk pretty well? Not rock or mountain climbers! We always manage, at times, to get ourselves lost or mixed up, but the nice thing about that is that we have found some neat stuff we knew nothing about and have met some friendly people that helped us out.

[Fungal infection]

your Colorado 300 is a fine tool and would be ideal to bring with you.

also get some OS paper maps of the area you want to walk in.

i cant say what parts of the uk i like most.

(i have not seen it all yet)

but at the moment i love the lake district.

 

i bought garmins northern england topo on micro sd card

i can say it is as accurate as memorymap and OS paper maps.

it just lacks detail.

but it does have all the stuff i need like contours / paths & watercoarses.

so if you use memory map to plan your route and transfer it to your

Colorado 300 with topo installed, you have an awesome navigation device.

and dont forget to take a paper map along too.

 

i allways carry a paper map and compass. just in case.

[+geosmitti]

No worries, ask away when your ready

I checked for RA 7000 Navigator and it appears that RA has replaced the 7000 with the 9000. The 9000 sounds like quite a unit, however, probably more than I need. RA web site indicated that RA 7000 Adventurer is still available from MM and that RA 7000 Navigator might still be available from a retailer who has stock. Would you be aware of a retailer or website that you have faith in and that might have a 7000N in stock?

 

Do I have this correct? You use your 7000N with SD cards. From your computer you have loaded on each SD card a copy of MM software and the maps for a particular area. Does each card have the Sat Nav on it? Where did the Sat Nav come from? Was it on the 7000N when you purchased it and then you loaded it onto each of the SD cards. I am assuming that there is 1 SD card slot. Any reason you did not get a larger GB SD card and have fewer cards?

 

I could do the same thing. I have MM software on my laptop and MM OS maps – Cotswolds and Norfolk Broads – and AZ map – Greater London. I could load the info on to SD cards.

 

Does the 7000N come with turn-by-turn voice directions for the UK with in-car satellite navigation and a UK road map? So if you didn’t have MM or any other maps, you could put the unit right out of the box on the car dash and drive off?

 

My wife and I have vacationed in England 4 times for a total time of a little over 4 months. People always ask us what is your favorite part and would you go back to a specific area. We say wherever we have been is our favorite spot, yes we would go back to every place we have been and yes we want to go to very place we haven’t been. Do you have a favorite place to walk and/or GPS that you would recommend to a couple in their sixties that are able to walk pretty well? Not rock or mountain climbers! We always manage, at times, to get ourselves lost or mixed up, but the nice thing about that is that we have found some neat stuff we knew nothing about and have met some friendly people that helped us out. Actually, we say we are never lost – we just don’t know where we are!

[+geosmitti]

your Colorado 300 is a fine tool and would be ideal to bring with you.

also get some OS paper maps of the area you want to walk in.

i cant say what parts of the uk i like most.

(i have not seen it all yet)

but at the moment i love the lake district.

 

i bought garmins northern england topo on micro sd card

i can say it is as accurate as memorymap and OS paper maps.

it just lacks detail.

but it does have all the stuff i need like contours / paths & watercoarses.

so if you use memory map to plan your route and transfer it to your

Colorado 300 with topo installed, you have an awesome navigation device.

and dont forget to take a paper map along too.

 

i allways carry a paper map and compass. just in case.

Good advise about the map and compass!

 

The lack of detail is what put me off with the Canadian Topo. Your advice is good because if I downloaded routes from MM, had the UK Topos on the 300 and had the OS paper map – I would have a good set up. I am going to look into the OS/Garmin maps that you mentioned earlier.

 

You mentioned contours, paths & watercourses. Does the Garmin UK Topo have the walking footpaths as the OS maps do?

 

Would May and/or June be a good time to go to the Lake District? We like May/June as they’re not so many or us guys around (tourists), the days are longer and the spring colors in the UK are dynamic.

 

One of the features I like about the Road Angel is that I could use my good Canadian Topos on it as well as the marine charts that I have for the lake and river area where we spend a lot of time. Of course in the end – money will probably be the deciding factor – especially these days.

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You mentioned contours, paths & watercourses. Does the Garmin UK Topo have the walking footpaths as the OS maps do?

 

strange thing is some paths, i thought would not be on there, are.

and some, i though would be on there, are not.

but for me topo, is perfect for my needs, and hey i still have paper maps

in my rucksac. 1/25000 OS and 1/40000 Harvey (both waterproof)

 

as for the best time to visit. GB is getting wetter all the time.

i think last year was the wettest on record.

so any time will do. its bound to rain.