Reacties op: Part 1 long-term test of the Tripy II GPS, TomTom Rider and the brand new Garmin 590LM

Door: David Stone

David Stone — Fri, 30 May 2014 15:27:34 +0000

Have had my TomTom for 5years plus only problem has been the dock charger. I had 4 replacements sent and it was only the last one that solved it but even that only lasted for 18 months as the vibration wore the bracket stops through and it all flew to bits on the road. Fortunatly the safety strap was attached remotely so saved the unit.
As I only use it on long trips it is not worth me paying for upgrades. That is one subject worth looking at. Would I purchase the same thing.
Most certainly I have found my way out of some very tricky I am lost situations. In fact Briliant

Door: graham gingell

graham gingell — Thu, 29 May 2014 16:55:15 +0000

i wish you luck! i use Garmin Nuvi 2598LMT-D, set me back 200 pounds sterling. its ok if you know the correct spellings for each destination but crap if your trying to input from scanning screen as the north up isnt always north up. i hate to say this but Nokia Here and Drive maps are easier to use but are a bugger to pin point destinations. Garmin Basecamp is crap, why on earth they stopped supplying Mapsource i will never know but it was almost perfect. so easy to make routes, make weighpoints and insert them for points of interest.
my preference is gmaps and google earth. find where i am going and then zoom in on garmin and hope to find what im looking for.
your you tube videos are informative on basecamp and i notice your tracks revert to google earth for display, what seems a little odd is you switch the GPS on and then seemingly go for a cup of coffee for 50 minutes before starting the journey.
wish i knew more Nederlands, i just get by.
graham

Door: Tim Woodcock

Tim Woodcock — Thu, 29 May 2014 15:36:48 +0000

One area where bike GPS units have been poor is for route planning. Would you add to your list of criteria how good they are for planning a route? For example a day’s riding of about 500Km?