There’s a few places on the internet that offer FREE (as in beer) user generated maps for Garmin GPS owners. Of course nothing replaces a comprehensive map database but if you’re planning on traveling to foreign lands check out these maps to see if they’ll get you around to where you want to go – [...]
On 05.28.08, In GPS Articles
NEWS.com.au on May 29/08 reports that within a 3 1/2 month period in Adelaide, Australia thieves have stolen about 70 GPS devices from vehicles within the city center. If the rotten people in other parts of the world are looking at GPS Navigators as a way of cashing in on stolen goods we can all [...]
Since Mac has been scraping together more and more of the computer market share with every passing day I thought that I’d check out just which GPS manufacturers were willing to recognize the aggressively rising popularity in the OS X operating system. My goal was not to find out which GPS devices could with a [...]
There’s now a 2009 North America Map Update available for Garmin GPS Navigators. The DVD contains full coverage for the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. The DVD comes jam packed full with almost 6 million Points of Interest too! With the latest maps you’ll have no problems finding businesses, coffee shops, lodging, attractions and [...]
It’s pretty cool that both the TomTom and the Garmin let you change the voice files at your every whim if you want. It’s so easy to do that you can have someone different tell you where to go every day. It’s not only my GPS that’s telling me where to go, I hear it [...]
On 05.19.08, In Tips
One thing I always want to do is plan a trip before I go out on it if there’s some danger of getting lost. If I’m going to visit a couple of islands with a boat, trek out into the wild Sierra Madre or even visit a town that has no road data available there’s [...]
