Hi all
Without asking the most obvious question on this thread, can someone explain why the need for using a laptop as a GPS rather than a traditional Garmin or an onboard car radio/GPS combo unit? ie What are the benefits?
The reason I ask is that I have a car radio/GPS unit that has a 7" touch screen and does all the media bits 110%. It came with GPS built in which for day-2-day stuff is fine. I've seen the posts about Chinese stuff being junk
but in this case I'm extremely hapyp with it @£198 delivered.. Given that Africa has a different risk factor tho..
I'm now deciding whether to use it as the GPS for the car or use an external one. The external obviously takes up space etc but I have a very very specific requirement which is that the route travelled needs to be downloadable which sounds like it needs to be a Garmin / laptop based unit that works with Mapsource which can import the routes etc..
(Kevn, Lorin - PM me if you'd like Africa maps as i have a full set of the east coast, and much of the west, that is 100% ROUTABLE
taken ages but I'm finally there! All work with Mapsource, exportable to a Garmin unit. I also have them working on MAC and windozzzz. My self imposed challenge is to get these working on my car unit which has the nav 'n go / iGO 8.3.4 software. One good thing about this unit is that as it's not a main stream unit, there is more scope to use all kinds of generic maps with it.. I'll post pics and a write up to slightly water down the dislike for Chinese goods soon as I have the routable maps working
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I just ordered one of the ones Crispin has for fun and may land up using this but I would like to understand the reason why y'all seem to prefer the carputer variety..
Thanks