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................was talking to one of the 'trade' car accessory fellows the other evening who used to sell sat-navs full time..I asked which one he had and he swore by Garmin ( the fact that he is also a Middlesbrough fan and they sponsor them I don't think made much difference!!) cheers geoff

I have the 740 Live -- best thing since sliced bread -- although you would not have heard me say that when I got it -- went wrong so many times -- but now it has settled down -- really great -- mobile phone text weather any where in Europe. traffic avoiding jambs etc any where in Europe Don't even have to press a button -- just talk to it "Where am I" and t gives your location and if you want will contact any of the...

QUOTE (Chapmag @ Nov 30 2009, 08:41 AM) Hi again Saphire, Just looked it up and you can get Map Updates for the life of the Garmin Nuvi 760 for a one off payment of £105.99. G. Thank you G, its one worth looking at, I have been on Garmins website checking out all the units and watching the videos so have a good idea now, how they work.

Saphire1 - Garmin are probably the longest established and most experienced in the world of GPS, not only do they do Sat Nav for autos but also for shipping and the aviation industry so do not worry about their reliability. I use their StreetPilot 7200 but they are now difficult to find BUT I understand that the later Nuvi models are also extremely good.

Hi again Saphire, Just looked it up and you can get Map Updates for the life of the Garmin Nuvi 760 for a one off payment of £105.99. G.

QUOTE (shipbroker @ Nov 21 2009, 10:17 PM) ..................comments still needed though please? rgds geoff I have the TomTom 1 XL Europe, it does all that I ask of it. I have POI's for all the French camp sites on it. I take it even when we fly and hire a car. I have even taken it to Florida, got a special offer of £45 for all the USA maps, I installed POI's for Wallmarts, Outlets, cash machines, theme parks and...

has anyone got the xl with maps for florida that i can have a copy off please

Yes Michelin sat navs allow you to plan a route using their Via michelin route finder site & then transfer it to your Michelin sat nav. Tom Tom units can be updated with new maps using tom tom Home plus for a small extra fee you can get quarterly new maps downloaded

I've got a Nuvi 360 and unfortunately there's no facility to transfer routes over. I had a Streetpilot before it and you could plan your route with that model. A backward step in my opinion.

Yes you can do precisely that on a tom tom, you use this programme to do it via google maps http://www.janboersma.nl/gett/index.php Then you simply copy that whole route to the tom tom, really easy. Phil.