Introduction: The GPSMAP 60C is a new all-purpose unit with many new features and sporting a 256-color, highly reflective display. This transreflective TFT technology provides excellent viewing while maximizing battery life (30 hours, typical use).…
Consisting of points where longitude and latitude lines intersect, GPS map coordinates determine where a city, establishment, or other site of interest is located as well as the distance from one coordinate to another. When…
Introduction: The StreetPilot c340 is a medium-sized navigation solution meant to be simple to use right out of the box. The unit tells you the name of the street, when and in what direction to…
Introduction: The TomTom Go is an all-in-one car navigation system with software, maps, GPS and car mount that works straight out of the box. 3D or 2D views with day and night variations, touch-screen with…
With advancing technology, GPS car navigation (sometimes called “portable GPS”) is becoming more and more practical. Features like automatic routing, voice-guided navigation, and route re-calculating are more refined. Over the past few years, less expensive units have…
In addition to the free GPS software list, I’ve added this list of Free Geocaching Software. If you know of any additions or corrections to be made, please let me know. This list is current as of October 23,…
Introduction: The Magellan SporTrak is the most basic of the SporTrak range of GPS receivers. It supports WAAS technology for accuracy to within 3 meters. It comes loaded with a database of over 11,000 worldwide…
Introduction: With the eTrex Legend, Garmin has loaded a full basemap of North and South America into one small unit. The Legend is also designed to provide precise GPS positioning using correction data obtained from…
USB GPS receivers are devices that need to be connected to the USB port of a laptop computer to function. While one could be connected to a PDA, this setup isn’t practical and generally isn’t…
There are currently at least six manufacturers of GPS watches: Nike, Tech4o, Timex, Garmin, Polar, and Suunto. Casio used to have one, but it’s been discontinued. Garmin has a line of eight GPS watches. They…