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Author Navigation product supporting Map-like use (orientation)?
David Winter

2007-10-15, 4:33 am

I want to buy an affordable, light-weight GPS navigation product soon.
Entry-level Garmin products seem to be good enough, with one
exception:

I have played around with one (Nuvi 200), and it seems you always have
to provide a street name as a target so it can calculate a route. But
sometimes, I just want to go "downtown" without knowing an actual
street name, so I need to find one first.

Is there an affordable product that will allow me to look at an area
(e.g. downtown Berlin) just like I would on a printed map and select a
street or address as a destination then?

Thanks.

Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com

2007-10-15, 4:33 am

On 2007-10-15 08:49:11 +0100, David Winter
<wintermute.2019@googlemail.com> said:

> I want to buy an affordable, light-weight GPS navigation product soon.
> Entry-level Garmin products seem to be good enough, with one
> exception:
>
> I have played around with one (Nuvi 200), and it seems you always have
> to provide a street name as a target so it can calculate a route. But
> sometimes, I just want to go "downtown" without knowing an actual
> street name, so I need to find one first.
>
> Is there an affordable product that will allow me to look at an area
> (e.g. downtown Berlin) just like I would on a printed map and select a
> street or address as a destination then?
>
> Thanks.


Most allow you to browse a map and select a destination by tapping the
map at the chosen destination.

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