Best GPS?

[TimberWolf]

Garmin eTrex.

There's a whole load of 'em

Presumably you refer to the most expensive?

[Cliphead]

Knock yerself out.

[Old Greg]

For walking on holiday. Ideally nothing expensive, don't need maps, would like it to be small. Just to output lat/long and maybe a heading. Pity the iPod Touch doesn't have one built in.

Get yourself a stalker, and then phone him anytime you're lost.

[b0redom]

Now the new Garmin Edge 800 is out, you might be able to pick up a cheap Edge 705. It's a cycling computer, but you can preplot routes using BikeRouteToaster, upload all sorts of maps (including topographic offroad ones), it's smaller than a mobile phone, accurate, and has a long battery life.

[doodab]

There's a whole load of 'em

Presumably you refer to the most expensive?

Even the cheap ones will do what you want I think, except they might not have the compass. They will do loads of other stuff as well, preprogrammed routes and so on.

[Freamon]

Google maps is very poor for footpaths etc. RMaps on android uses OpenStreetMap tiles which are far better (and cheaper than Ordnance Survey).

[TimberWolf]

Google maps is very poor for footpaths etc. RMaps on android uses OpenStreetMap tiles which are far better (and cheaper than Ordnance Survey).

Google Earth, desktop version, is full of trails that people have uploaded. Walking, cycling trails etc. Not sure if you can export them to a GPS though.

In Amazon comments someone mentioned uploading from OpenStreetMap into the Garwin for free.

I'm starting to go off the idea a bit now though as I can't really justify the cost. I do okay with a tourist map and the Sun

[doodab]

I'm starting to go off the idea a bit now though as I can't really justify the cost. I do okay with a tourist map and the Sun

Those aren't actually mountains on page 3.

[Freamon]

Google Earth, desktop version, is full of trails that people have uploaded. Walking, cycling trails etc. Not sure if you can export them to a GPS though.

You can export them to KML and then load them into an android app called MyTracks I think.

[TimberWolf]

Ah, what the heck, I threw caution to the wind and ordered the Garmin eTrex H Handheld GPS Navigator from Amazon. The device has good reviews*, despite the interface being from the 1970s. Thanks to doodab and others for recommendations.

Not being an Ebay'er, I had a look on there and was disappointed by the prices. £40 or £50 for a used model with its unknowns seems expensive given that a new model is £67 inclusive of postage. I'm still not an Ebay'er. Local auction prices would be a fraction of that.

I might try geocaching when I get it, though I suspect that interest will wear off rapidly, to the tune of one cache.


*Though most Amazon stuff seems to have good reviews, even carp stuff, and reviewers who leave poor reviews tend to get reviewed badly in the rating system.