On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Ross Scanlon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking at buying a handheld gps, probably Garmin, that can have the > osm maps and shonkymaps loaded. > > This will mainly be used for bushwalking, thus the shonkymaps, so I'd like > to be able to have both available all the time. > > Is anyone here using a Garmin with osm maps and/or shonkymaps? If which > model? > I have the Garmin etrex legend HCx and I use it with OSM maps and Contours Australia v2.00 (10m contours) for bushwalking and mountain biking. I'm very happy with it.
I previously owned a vanilla etrex legend. It worked but I love the the high sensitivity receiver, the colour screen and the much quicker loading of maps onto the GPS that the HCx offers over the vanilla model. I used to also have shonkymaps installed on my etrex legend but haven't bothered to reinstall it on my new system, mainly because OSM seems to have better coverage of the dirt roads where I've been lately plus it also does routing to get me to the start point of where I want to go. Regards, Pete _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
