What do you use for your navigation

[baby_troupe]

Some people use Paper Maps, other GPS, & some more people use on board Satellite Navigation Systems.
What this thread is about is to find out what you use, how you find it & what would you like to use.

What I use is a system put together from several different ideas.
I Use a Garmin GPS12XL as my GPS & this connects to an external antenae which is mounted from my snorkel (Thanks to Jon @ 4lux.net for the idea)
Then I use a data cable to connect the GPS to a fairly low spec Laptop which runs OziExplorer & has an external flat screen mounted in my dash & external keyboard/trackball so I do not need to disturb the laptop too much.
I find this system quite easy to use & the only downfall of it is the number of cables look messy & presents the risk of failure (which happenned quite a bit in it's early days, but has been more reliable of late)
I also run Oziexplorer on the home PC, so I can manipulate the data when I get home on a full size screen.

[wooders]

My wife usually tells me where to go :-X

[baby_troupe]

My wife usually tells me where to go :-X

LOL
Mine too, but on trips that gets me totally lost.

All that electronic crap in the car when you can get a $10 paper map.....

Any wonder your saving for lightforce, fridge, lockers, swampers etc etc.......... :P

[Simon]

$10?. I dont spend that much on a map. ;)
And altho I wouldnt mind some sort of GPS I certainly wouldnt need all the mapping crap with laptops ect.
I would probably destroy it all on the first trip anyway.

[baby_troupe]

All that electronic crap in the car when you can get a $10 paper map.....

Any wonder your saving for lightforce, fridge, lockers, swampers etc etc.......... :P

Not saving for Swampers.
All of the other stuff yes.

Figured it is easier to program a computer to do navigation than to train thumbprint to read map.
Also get less arguments this way. ;D

I must be multi functional, I read the map and drive.....at the same time......

[The_Robsta]

Well as of yet i have hardly been out the driveway :'(

[my45]

I use maps in conjunction with a low spec Garmin E-Trek, That works fine for me. I read and drive when my co-pilot gets mixed up :-[ ::)

[Tlux]

A Garmin etrex Summit with Trackranger software for programming. No laptop, loaded on my desktop.

[Bill J]

The Magellan series Meridian has street level maps which include highways secondary roads and some tracks and can zone in on a street name . You can change the display to either map or lat/lon etc. I haven't been able to find out what level of trails are stored but having a topo of the area and the gps will ensure you don't get too far off course. Cost about a $1000 for the top of range plus extra for externa; ant and mounting gear.

$1000 cheap way to save marriage on those winding mountain trails.

[BurnieM]

A Garmin GPS V with Mapsource Metroguide Australia maps loaded and a LPI Topo paper map.

A mapping GPS is great for giving you 'situational awareness' (in spite of all the switch backs yes we are still heading towards camp).

[zooks rock]

as i don't drive off road yet i can only say a bit. we have an etrex (the yellow one) and thats fine for finding your posi on a map this makes an easy and cheapish way to navigate. btw baby troopy why the seprate stuff why not just keep it simple stupid. i'm shure you have a reson apart from the inbuilt bit. any way thats my two bob

[baby_troupe]

why the seprate stuff why not just keep it simple stupid. i'm shure you have a reson apart from the inbuilt bit. any way thats my two bob

I have it all connected, but when on a trip, I actually only use the flat screen in front of me & the audio system connected to remind when a turn is coming up.
I only use the GPS for the laptop to get the posi & for manual waypoints (if I see something of interest etc)

It looks quite complicated to set up, but it is so easy to follow once you get your head around it all.

[Strider01]

Just for my bit of input here. I use an iPaq Pocket PC running a Navman 3000 GPS jacket. Software is of course OziExplorer on both the desktop and the iPaq.

Cost - Nothing!! It's amazing what work will buy you these days!

Baby_troupe, I'd be interested in seeing your setup in the flesh - as it were. I'm hopefully going to go to the next meeting at Charmy.

Strider

[baby_troupe]

The CC4WDC has a GPS day on Saturday 9th August at the Charmhaven Fire Station. I will be at that with my setup.

I generally don't take my 4wd to club meetings as I come from work.

[Strider01]

No worries baby_troupe. I am pretty interested in the GPS day for sure!!

Strider01

[Light Treaker]

I just use paper maps and a very very very basic Garmin Geko 101. At this point in time with my touring and adventuring things work out OK.

And beter still my better half doesn't complain. ;D

Light Treaker

[Cozza]

Gut instinct, and the sun!

Sure, sometimes it takes me a day to go in a full circle. But that is the fun of it. A GPS would be reassuring but I couldnt read after the first bog hole.

[Cozza]

I hope your handbrakes dont know how to read this forum.

(Mine cant read a map either. She just starts drinking. Says it make the trips BEARABLE. I dont understand?)

[Jonesy]

I'm hearing you cozza ;D

what sort of Nav ? touring,? around town,? 4x4ing,?

Down here when your 4x4ing you can either go forward or back, normally the track your on is the track YOUR ON no side tracks and the forest or button grass is impassable.

[alki]

Garmin eMap with mapsource Metroguide.