sat nav in the usa... any help much appreciated

[andrewlee31]

hey all,

im looking to buy a sat nav system i can use in the uk as well as florida, seen a bargain on medionshop.co.uk, and seen some discs on ebay with the maps and other software on them, but i know sod all about this stuff. so does anybody know if i can change the software to the dodgy stuff from ebay???

thanks all

[BUSHWHACKER]

This any help at all?

[mark g8awo]

Tomtom is the best of the sat navs plus you can buy the extra maps that cover the US

[safysurfer]

get a tom tom 700 , they will cover where you want to go with an extra download. iv got one and its great

[joker??]

hey all,

im looking to buy a sat nav system i can use in the uk as well as florida, seen a bargain on medionshop.co.uk, and seen some discs on ebay with the maps and other software on them, but i know sod all about this stuff. so does anybody know if i can change the software to the dodgy stuff from ebay???

thanks all

you can change the memory card, make sure you get the unlock code
got a garmin and the ferker froze when i went to get my surf today
would'nt really rate em tried tom tom ,navman , and garmin all have faults

[andrewlee31]

extra software for tom tom is 200 quids.. and call me mean but i aint paying that for 2 weeks lol, looking at the pda route because there is some <cough> interesting software on ebay that looks like it will do the job, but dont know what kind of pda i will need??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

You will need to get a larger memory card for the PDA, first thing I did when I got mine was to get a 1GB card and copy all from the original to it.

These days you can pick up a card that size for around £20


Trev

[bobo]

hey all,

im looking to buy a sat nav system i can use in the uk as well as florida, seen a bargain on medionshop.co.uk, and seen some discs on ebay with the maps and other software on them, but i know sod all about this stuff. so does anybody know if i can change the software to the dodgy stuff from ebay???

thanks all

Go for the Medion It is actually a PDA I put TomTom 5 on my dad's Medion PDA recently and it was very straightforward. The only thing that you can really mess up is the GPS connection and Baud rate settings.

I can't remember which ones I used, but a quick google suggests:

Other Cable NMEA GPS
GPS baud rate = 4800
Serial Cable on SP2.

[andrewlee31]

nice one, thanks a lot, ill give it a bash!

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

I have the Medion, it also runs Memory Map - GREAT for green laneing

It has similar settings to the Tom Tom ones you list but it goes to COM1


Trev