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Hey folks am looking to get a Sat Nav as my traveliing for gigs is becoming an *rse....Anyone use these things...what should I be looking for in one? What the best to buy?

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if you ve got a gps phone i recommend igo8

I think E-lusionist are bringing out one. It takes the Phillips Street Atlas methodology, but applies it in a completely new way that will totally fry your friends!

I can highly recommend the Navman S-50

reviewed here on the gadget show under there best buys

http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/bestbuys/satnav

I used to have a TomTom til some lowlife smashed my passenger door window and grabbed it. I then went out and decided to go for a Sony uNav. Big mistake. The TomTom was far superior. Honestly can't go wrong with a TomTom, and if travelling around the country for gigs they are worth their weight in gold - even the Sony!

I recommend a map.

I love maps me, and being able to use one is a dying art.

When the Armageddon comes and all of the satelites drop out of the sky I'll be there, map in hand, and I'll know exactly where I am.

Marvo Marky wrote:I recommend a map.

Maps are death traps and should be banned. Trying to read a map whilst driving through a busy city centre or along a motorway is no joking matter to be honest. And it's no ggod saying "read the map before you set off" because who, apart from a memory expert, can remember "left and then second right, then right at the T junction, then down the road 200 yards and it's on the left."

Honestly, people who don't see the value of a satnav either don't have a car, or don't actually go anywhere in their car, or have never driven anywhere with the aid of a satnav. Satnavs prevent accidents and get people to their detinations on time and without the need to do U-turns and/or bother old people who've never heard of where you're looking for, sorry mate.

Did I ever tell you chaps (and chapesses) about the taxi driver who tried to tell me that there's this system of highly expensive satellites whose sole purpose was to beam warnings of upcoming speed cameras into the Sat Nav on his dashboard? Even when I asked him to think that maybe it's the other way around and that the satellites just supply the device's exact location on the planet so that it can work out where it is on the internal map of speed cameras he downloaded to it, it didn't register that he might have his ideas the wrong way around.

themagicwand wrote:Maps are death traps and should be banned. Trying to read a map whilst driving through a busy city centre or along a motorway is no joking matter to be honest.

Drivers who thunder along fiddling with their satnavs while leaving a cigarette paper's gap between themselves and the next car in front are also slightly dangerous.

themagicwand wrote:Honestly, people who don't see the value of a satnav either don't have a car, or don't actually go anywhere in their car, or have never driven anywhere with the aid of a satnav. Satnavs prevent accidents and get people to their detinations on time and without the need to do U-turns and/or bother old people who've never heard of where you're looking for, sorry mate.

People who don't see the value of a map have obviously never used one properly, and have probably relied on technology to do everything for them for too long. Proper navigational skills prevent all manner of cock-ups, including accidents.
I own both satnav and maps.

Sat Navs have some great advantages, but the main downfall is people follow their directions like lemmings - I once nearly had a head on collision with a driver who turned the wrong way into Baker Street in London all because his sat nav told him to.

My Sat Nav doesn't recognise a roundabout at the end of my road, a roundabout that is in my 10 year old A to Z.

Use them, but don't follow them blindly - I believe they are here to take over the planet, and one day they will lead us all to a great big pit and make us drive in.

Go for a Tom Tom - it will take you to your certain death using the best route possible.

Are there any which have free or reletively cheap mao upgrades. The Nav Man ones cost about £80 so i've got right off them.

Totally Mental wrote:Use them, but don't follow them blindly - I believe they are here to take over the planet, and one day they will lead us all to a great big pit and make us drive in.

Tee hee. If there's a major armed conflict, its possible that the American-owned civilian GPS system will be turned off or degraded like it was during the 1991 invasion of Kuwait so as not to give succour to the enemy. Ditto the European Galileo system. They're tools but they're not gods. I think that map reading will still be a vital skill this century.

I recommend a map

You event a trick wer I can drive and read and remeber a map at the same time and Ill fund it lol

I really like my Garmin Nuvi, it's makes getting to places so much easier and saved my life when trying to find my way around the one way system in Brighton.