Travel Technology - Gps

So I got a small GPS unit for Christmas. Does anyone travel with their own?

So I got a small GPS unit for Christmas. Does anyone travel with their own?

Of course. Use it to add waypoints of places you want to visit. Restaurants you want to eat at, etc.

What handheld GPS did you get?

I'm on my second, the first one, very basic non mapping unit, but I loved it, left on a windowsill in China. I'll be upgrading it in a few weeks to something more powerful, wouldn't leave home with out it.

I got the Garmin i2. The model number was an inside joke by the wife.

It seems to be fine around town. I should be taking it on its 1st trip later this week.


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I'll take my TomTom Go with me when I will be driving.

I have a Garmin which I would love to use on a plane. I ask, they say NO. Oddly enough my friend has been permitted to use his several times in flight. :confused:

TomTom GO for me too. Perfect for navigating in places I've never been :D

I still am using the ppc for this, with a bluetooth puck that stay in my briefcase.

I do lot of waypoints, always tagging a restaurant or location for future reference. I put in the friends coordinates when I am at their house, really only takes about 10 seconds effort to input.

I bought #1 1K GF a Navman last year, she likes it. What I really would like would be a very small wrist mounted device, that does BT and holds a small amount of map data. Like a cell phone screen type, but just for walking GPS.

THAT would be cool

I have a Garmin which I would love to use on a plane. I ask, they say NO. Oddly enough my friend has been permitted to use his several times in flight. :confused:

Every flight crew is different and when in doubt they say 'no'. Personally, I go by the addage, 'it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission'. It is an electronic device that does not transmit and poses no risk to the aircraft navigational systems.

So I got a small GPS unit for Christmas. Does anyone travel with their own?

I have a little wristwatch GPS (Garmin). I take it when I travel all the time.

It's worked great everywhere I've gone in North America and Central America. Sometimes takes a while to calibrate when I first arrive in a new city...

(It's obviously not the full-fledged device with mapping and directions and all that a lot of folks here have. Its main purpose is to show distance traveled and instant or average pace, and then you can hook it up to a computer to display graphs and such. I love it for training runs in strange locales.)

Guess it rates high on the geek factor, but I usually travel with two. The Garmin StreetPilot for getting around town and a handheld to geocache. Geocaching is a global hide & go seek game where people place a little 'treasure' (usually a box with trinkets) and post the coordinates on a website. The goal is to find the box and to exchange something worthless for something equally worthless (amenities kits are a wonderful resource).

It may sound silly, but in a lot of cases the cache is placed by a local in a spot which might be particularly beautiful or interesting historically. I've been taken to some amazing spots within walking distance of the hotel. It is also motivation to tramp around a bit when I might normally be channel-surfing the hotel TV in my underwear.

If interested check out: www.geocaching.com

In the US, search by zip code, otherwise do an advanced search and look for a keyword that would identify the area (like "Sydney"), select a cache page & select "find all nearby caches" to see what's geographically close.

I tried a couple of Bluetooth GPS devices that work with a mobile phone.
About a year ago, I got one (forgot the exact model) that worked fine, but did not give me enough accuracy, especially in streets with tree foliage. It also did not come with maps.

Now I am using the Nokia's Wireless GPS module (model # LD-1W), which comes with a phone app called Wayfinder, that supports maps world wide. You can get driving directions (with voice, similar to NeverLost), look up addresses, etc. It is pretty cool!

I haven't used it in an airplane though, since I can't use my phone there. Does anyone have experience with using a GPS receiver aboard a plane, to see the exact current location? Do airlines permit this?

I also travel with 2 :)

I have a Garmin Streetpilot for getting around in the car and a garmin Etrex Vista for Geocaching :)

I love both of them for the purpose I use em!