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I am looking at buying a GPS unit and like the look of the Dakota unit. I would be getting the one with full UK landranger, goes for 340 online. The only worry I have is how do I plan the routes? Does it come with software for planning the routes? Or do you have to plan the route online?
I can get the Memory Map adventure 3500 for the same price with full UK maps, that looks much easier to plan routes etc but it looks like the unit itself is a bit rubbish.
Cheers
Sorry to be a "should have been here last week" merchant but Go Outdoors were selling the Oregon 450 on Tuesday inc the full UK os 50,000 mapping for £280, it has a bigger screen than the Dakota, they may have 1 or 2 left but I think it was a 1 day deal. Santa's bringing mine so haven't had chance to play yet but I'm assuming it's possible to upload a route or track from Memory Map in the same way as other units. I think the Garmin is the more rugged choice and they claim to have sorted the daylight veiwing issues that they had with the 400/500.
Missed that! Can you not plot the route using the garmin maps on your computer? Or are they only on the GPS unit
Hopefully you can plan a route on the PC and export it to the unit via USB ortherwise it'll be a faff. Try the [url= http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/Oregon450_OwnersManual.pdf ]manual[/url]
Don't pay for the mapping, you can buy the unit much more cheaply with just the base map, then download all the free maps you like using this application... [url] http://mobac.dnsalias.org/ [/url]
I have one. I use Mapyx Qyo mapping software on my pc and transfer to the Dakota. Mapyx is free, although you have to pay a nominal sum for the map tiles, I find it is a tiny bit clunky, but perfectly usable. I think there is other free software out there, Mapyx just happened to be the one I tried and I get along with it ok. (No slur on Mapyx intended, I haven't given it much time to learn properly, you can pay for a tutorial, which I haven't done, but even so I can map rides perfectly well).