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Old 27-05-2009, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by chrisp9au View Post
can't really understand why people spend so much money on them when all they need to do is read a map!
Other than the toy value, I don't know why people buy these in-car navigators to drive around their own town either.
I still have the same handheld GPS that I bought in 1996. It's a Garmin 12XL, and I bought it because I used to do a lot of bush bashing on mountain bikes, alone, and in the middle of nowhere. The GPS wasn't so much for knowing where I was instantaneously, but for logging the track I took for overlaying on a map when I got home. It's a great trail mapping tool.

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Jason.
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