GPS

"What have you got now and how is it lacking in doing what you want ? "

I think that's a very important question - as there are a great range of features and option.

We all use low cost Garmin Nuvi's for general road driving but they just don't hack it when making your own tracks into new country.

When it comes to getting serious we find that no map system is always accurate and so we need the ability to generate an appropriate track & Waypoints and load them into a more capable product , and we all use Garmin 276c or there latest version 276cx.

These units cost several times what a Nuvi does but offer a range of advantages and even still use buttons for input , and are not restricted to North up / or limited resolution commercial maps.
Whatever you do make sure you have general paper maps, the other day I was with someone trying to get to an address in the city and try as they could , first the touch screen became very difficult to use as many do in very low humidiy , anyway ,with careful use they got an address in only to find it wasn't accepted.

Several goes later and after quite some frustration they gave up , whereupon I pulled out the street directory and went straight to it.

In this particular case the street had 2 names and the common use one wasn't the one the GPS used so could not locate.

Hi Robin, who is "we all"? You used this term and "we" several times, just wanting to know who the "we" is.

Thanks Macca.

Hi Macca

Probably should have made that clear but we go 4wding with a regular group of friends and we all tend to use the same equipment to maximize ease of use and minimize spares etc.
One of my jobs is to create plots for more wayout trips and because we all have same GPS its easy to create common uploadable files and give instructions over radios etc to say "Call up a named waypoint".

Hi Robin, thanks for the clarity. We (my family) travel a lot together, and we tend to share equipment also. We travel with an EPIRB & Sat Phone, and use a Hema Navigator for Off Road, and the in car navigator for city driving.

Macca.

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Noggins, you must have your preferences set to 'Tourist Mode'. lol
Try the 'WPB' option.

Isn't that strange Noggin, I've used Garmins for years and never had those problems. Maybe check your setting.
I do know that the GPS will send you 1 way if you for example you enter 67-----Street and send you another way if you chose a street number on the opposite side of the same road. The GPS want to always put you on the correct side of the road so that you don't have to 'cross' the road so as a result the GPS takes you on a round about journey.

Hi

Really need to know what you plan on using the "GPS" before any definitive answer can be provided. There are in a variety of scenarious and different GPS units are better suited for some applications than others (e.g the best in car unit is useless for hiking) . What exactly do you plan on doing with it?

Cheers
Greg