Which Sat Navs

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Which sat nav is the best one for letting you put in co-ordinates. I was lucky enough to win a Panasonic one last year, but it only lets you mark a co-ordinate when you are in the place - not a lot of good when you are wanting to find somewhere.:(. I have decided to get the best of the postings I need to get a different one.
Canalsman was kind enough to send me his list, and now can't wait to download it.

Ok decided its now going to be a Garmin - I have £150 of Argos vouchers from doing surveys, so thats the reason for buying from there. So which of the following to choose from

Just realised one is out of stock, so thats a decision made



Buy Garmin Nuvi 1490T with UK, ROI and Europe. at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for . out of stock, but is it worth waiting for

Buy Garmin Nuvi 1390T with UK, ROI and Europe. at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for .
 
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I have a Tom Tom one (few years old now) and it allows you to enter the Latitude and Longitude as a destination. I would assume other TOm Tom sat navs would have the same function, maybe not the tom tom Start as it is a basic model apparently.
 
tomtom start is crap i bought one and its a right pile of junk. my old tomtom 500 go is far better you can even get a demo of the route your going on the new one dosnt do that
 
i got a tom tom one with europe on it and the bigger screen last year with mi birfday:eek: money to replace a tom tom 500 go that went:eek: cost about £150 off flea bay, well happy wive it does just what it say's on the tin
 
I have a HP iPAQ Rx5720 Travel Companion. Basically it's a PDA with a built in gps receiver and TomTom 6 software which will accept Lat. & Lon co-ordinates.

It's small enough to fit in a pocket so you can use it on foot.
I can also download OS maps to it from the Anquet maps I have on my PC and use the gps function with those when walking etc. I believe multimap has the same facilities.

I bought it because I wanted something that was more than just a satnav, as it's a PDA it has all the progs and features you would expect with one of these, spreadsheet, organiser etc.

Frank
 
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Tescos are selling Garmins from £89.97 - we love ours and it lets you type in coordinates as a destination. I believe Tomtoms are very similar - we bought the Garmin because, at the time, it gave wider European coverage.
 
CoPilot8 for mobile phones allows input of coordinates at the start of a journey or as a detour on the way.
 
Wildcamp Co-ordinates

I have used the wildcamping areas part of the forum to good use for Lake district and Hadrians wall over last couple of years and planned routes using a map!
Now I have a SatNav I have had a look at some of the posts and realised that SatNav not going to help much in finding all these places! I guess going forward when new camping places are discovered/visited we should be leaving co-ordinates so everyone can enjoy these places?
Does anyone know of anywhere there are wildcamping places listed with satnav co-ordinates?
I have moved in with my girlfriend recently but work some distance away and so am staying in my converted van 3/4 nights a week in the Windsor areas so will leave co-ordinates of some places to stay if anyone is visiting the area
 
My 5 year old Navman has packed in but the wife has a Tom Tom One.

What I miss most of all is the facility to input an address and go to a `show` button, which brought up details of the destination. This was ideal for rural areas as you could pick the exact destination instead of depending on rural postcodes (which are often useless). The Tom Tom One is not so user friendly.

Does any other satnav have this facility please.
 
Tom tom

TOM TOM one XL is fab - as Old Arthur says, it does what it says on the tin and that list that Canalsman has so kindly built for us goes on quite easily.

Chrissy
 
Thanks for all you help.

Just ordered

omTom XL IQ Sat Nav - UK, ROI & Europe £169.99 inc charger and case - from Halfords - Can't put a link in

Hope I've done the right thing - looked like a good price as well.
 
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jennyp19 said:
Thanks for all you help.

Just ordered

omTom XL IQ Sat Nav - UK, ROI & Europe £169.99 inc charger and case - from Halfords - Can't put a link in

Hope I've done the right thing - looked like a good price as well.
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no you havn't :rolleyes:... oh well :confused:


regards;)
aj
 
I bought the cheapest Binatone from Asda, about £40.... then I installed Tom Tom. Works a treat. I don't know if it does the coordinates thing, will have a look next time I'm using it, but you can install other programs other than Tom Tom so I'm sure it would be possible
 
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Im looking to buy a sat nav but am wondering if there is a sat that would include greece as i propose to spend a fair bit of time here,also one that would poi easily onto maps like the TomTom One XL europe
 
I have tried (and tried and tried):mad: to put the wilding POI`s into a Tom Tom One.

Is there anyone I can post it to as I will have a heart attack with frustration shortly.:eek: My Navman has packed in and I cannot revive it, it is about 5 years old anyway.

Does anyone have a length of rope handy.:(
 
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