Lynd57
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Hello, can anyone advise on the best Sat Nav to buy for touring UK & Europe. pls. Never had one before so wouldn't know where to start or what to look for any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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Well before you buy you will have to check you can, there's loads out there from a few pounds to hundreds of pounds. As GW says there will be plenty along shortly that know a lot more about them than I do or actually want too. A2B man here.I think we'd want to load it up with POI's (wondered what that meant!) thanks
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Don't tell me you've finally migrated from Mapsource?Plus do you want to be able to plan your routes ( rather then a dumb machine taking you down inappropriate roads) . I like Garmin as they have a free program called Basecamp that you can use for planning on laptop or PC
We are currently using a Garmin nuvi 1492-bought in Halfords in Dover when our Mio packed up just outside Dover and were going France,Spain and Portugal for 3 mths.
The Garmin was missing one feature that the Mio had,and I'm now looking for a Sat nav with this feature.
* It is the ability to set either a visual or audio or both alarm when approaching selected custom POI's. For example,I would get a visual alarm when within 1K of either an Aire or a fuel station selling LPG.
So,if hunting for an aire for the night I could simply drive till I got an alert,Tap the screen and be taken to that Aire. *
On the Garmin you have to know which Aire you want and select it from a huge list. Not much fun if it's getting late and the Aire you had intended staying on was full.
One thing about buying your first ever Sat Nav-when I bought mine I had no idea what I should expect it to be able to do,that has been learnt quite expensively
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if you select POI Aires on route it will display them from nearest outward....up to you which you choose as nearest may not always be best choice.
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The Garmin was missing one feature that the Mio had,and I'm now looking for a Sat nav with this feature...........................
Well I spose that's something-but not the feature I had and would like again.
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but what you said was inaccurate..you are not overwhelmed with a long list of choices as it spans out from where you are when you choose to select one, in order from nearest first.
personally would find an alarm pinging annoying as I have 300,000 POI
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Be wary of some of those sites, especially GPS Data Team. The set which is, supposedly, Motorhome Parking for instance is a load of garbage - just something they found somewhere after I managed to stop them passing off my set as their own.Other POI's here including every McDonalds in Europe - also priceless !!!!
https://en.discussions.tomtom.com/g...ree-3rd-party-poi-downloads-via-1530tm-295612