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Kelcat

For some time I've been considering getting a gps that would be suitable for fell walking - now we have a MH we are more & more often in parts of the countryside we don't know.
The arrival of a new car (without built in Sat Nav) & the MH also mean that I'm looking for a new portable Sat Nav for driving - preferably with full postcode facility.
Is it possible to realistically combine these 2 things - is there one device that would do both jobs? I had been looking at a road angel adveturer 7000 - but it seems to be discontinued? Has it been superseded with something better?

Any advice much appreciated as it's all starting to make my head fuzzy now Confused

trevorf

Mmm difficult one. The best systems for fell walking are hand held devices that run on AA batteries and have Maps based on the ordnance survey ones with height contour info.
Vehicle based systems tend to have a larger screen and run on short life internal batteries charged from the vehicle 12V.

If anything does exist that can do both I guess it will be a bit of a compromise.

Trevor

tonyt

I use a Mio in the mh which is spot on for my needs. Technically, it's possible to use it as a hand held when out walking but as Trevor says, it's the battery life that is the weakness.

It's fine for navigating back to the mh after getting lost in city streets but the battery wouldn't last more than around 45 mins.

DABurleigh

Think about a change of phone!

I have a TomTom AND a Pocket PC phone with OS mapping.

Dave

hiddenseven

I use the GPSMAP 76CS. This has been discontinued but has been replaced with the GPSMAP 76CSx.

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silversurfa

You could use your mobile phone as you can dial up map navigation, but a far simpler method is use an O/S Walkers map .will tell you far more than sat nav, buy a small compass and away you go? All those little hillocks and telephone boxes, church steeples . but can you get lost in england?

Zebedee · Moderator

Kelcat

I climb mountains for a hobby and am on the fells pretty much most weekends - and yet yes you can still get lost in the UK. Any gps is only ever going to be a back up to a map - however lugging the UK OS around with me seems daft in the modern era, especially with the MH taking me to new places. I more intended to have a sat nav for driving & as a reference for walking.

Hiddenseven - have looked at that model - wasn't sure it would do the
postcode lookup?
The main use of the unit will be driving so the postcode things fairly high on the wish list.

Have since found out that the 7000 is still available (most sites seem to want to sell me the 9000) - anyone got any experience of these?

trevorf

GPSMAP76 looks great for walking but in a vehicle the screen would be a bit small. Also does it do spoken i