Sat Nav's (10)

Put your bloody glasses on woman! I heard tom-toms are the best but a guy at work has got a Navman that works fine, I drive his truck when he is rostered off, I have a Navman in my boat that is way better than anything else I have seen, but its your choice? Anything for work is tax deductible, even the internet if you have to upgrade your maps? Come too think now I may be in the market for a GPS for the car/truck that way I can claim my internet bill on tax? I am a truck driver after all?

ive got a navman,but i hav been taken on acouple of long trips that were unnesessary because it couldnt find the location,still found it eventually,buti always stop now and bthink hey this doesnt seem right,and i drive awy a bit ,and it finds a different way.when i mean it couldnt find the location, i meant it took me down a goat track twice which was the shortest route,and ended up being dangerous as it was a disused firebreak.You hav to update them occassionally on your comp to keep up with road changes

Many many choices on the market these days. I am a bit old fashioned and rely on maps so I can plot my route. But I was given a NavMan a couple of years ago and it relys on WhereIs for locations. WhereIs is run by Telstra and they have to have accuracy so their technicians can find where they are going.

There are many different features for each type out there, all have modes which will give you shortest route or quickest route - different because sometimes staying on a freeway might be longer but much quicker. And then you can also option not to pay tolls. And some don't want you to take unsealed roads.

Hema have just released their latest Hema 6 Navigator and has a great and very accurate display. But for $900, you would only really buy something like this if you also intended to go 4-wheel driving as it has so many excellant off-road maps as well as a "street-view" function.

I would suggest you go to Hardly Normals and talk it through with the techno geeks there, sort out what might be appropriate for what you really need, and then use Google to look for what others think about the 1 or 3 you might consider.

Personally, I would suggest that you give the NavMan a good look. My daughter uses it and says how easy she finds it. Gave mine to a guy at work today so he could find an out of the way place. I did actually have the location already entered because I had to find it myself for some other job. And he said he would have been completely lost without it (he is very non-techno).

Told him where to turn and where to stop. He just hated having a woman telling him where to go all the time.

as mr gru would say on the movie Despicable Me.....Lightbulb!