Anyone have experience with this? I'm getting really annoyed with being in new countries and having to rely on paper maps. A few weeks ago, I spent a week on a dirt bike in Costa Rica on mostly 4WD roads and was basically lost about 50% of the time. I'd love to have a good, portable GPS with a large screen that is battery powered and has international maps.
I have an iPhone, but the GPS feature only works with cell coverage or WiFi, so that's out. I have portable Garmins (60CSX), and could download maps, but the maps are expensive and the screen is too small. I wanted to download a Russian map a couple years ago, but it was a couple hundy.
The Garmin 1300 is on sale right now for $79, but the battery life is only advertised at 4 hours, which I'm assuming is optimistic. They have a nice 4.3" screen, so the idea is there, but the battery life sucks.
Garmin has a world map edition:
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=662
Anyone know if the detail is acceptable?
It sure would be cool to be cruising around Nicaragua with a reliable electronic map. Any ideas?????