UPDATE: A newer model, the Forerunner 210, brings some added pace features, while keeping the 110′s form factor.
The Garmin Forerunner 110
Garmin Forerunner 110
April 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
Garmin Oregon 450t
April 19, 2010 By 3 Comments
The Garmin Oregon 450t
Garmin nuvi 3700 series announced
April 19, 2010 By 3 Comments
UPDATE: Read my hands on reviews of the Garmin nuvi 3750 and 3790T
Garmin nuvi 3750, 3760T and 3790T introduced
Garmin announced the nuvi 3700 series this morning, bringing quite a few new features to the line. Here are the highlights garnered from the news release:
- High-resolution glass display with capacitive touch panel
- Thinnest navigator on market (9 mm)
- Can switch between landscape and portrait modes
- Zoom in and out by double-tap or pinch
- trafficTrends™ uses historic traffic data for routing decisions
- myTrends™ predicts your destination (reducing steps needed to begin navigation)
- Powered mount with secondary speaker for clearer voice prompts
Waypoints — April 17th, 2010
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Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get many of these stories as they break, follow me on Twitter. One brief house-keeping note… There are a lot of links here; not too infrequently, something will get messed up in the editing / posting process. If you find a link that isn’t working or points to the wrong place, please drop a comment, letting me know, and I’ll try to fix it.
Trail maps
- US Rails to Trails maps with .gpx file downloads
- A MO-IL trail map for Garmin devices
Notable quote
Interesting: "SiRF has since redesigned the global positioning-system (GPS) chips in question, and these have been imported for consumption and sale in the United States." It sounds like the new SiRFstar III isn’t the same as the old one – Via Reuters
Garmin GPSMAP 76
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Garmin GPSMAP 76
Here’s a tool to compare the GPSMAP 76 to other Garmin marine handhelds.
Finally — Garmin City Navigator Israel NT!
April 15, 2010 By 62 Comments
UPDATE: According to Garmin support, this product is only compatible with the nuvi 1xxx models. (Thanks Alex)
In my nearly five years of GPS blogging, I’ve had more requests for GPS maps of Israel than any other country. Hence, I thought this morning’s release of Garmin City Navigator Israel NT warranted a post. The link may throw an error, but the page should be available shortly if it’s not now. The maps cover most of Israel, including Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa and Eilat (I’ve included a coverage map below, after the jump). Roads and names can be displayed in either Hebrew or English.
Improved map controls for new Garmin handhelds
April 14, 2010 By 11 Comments
Garmin rolled out several new updates yesterday for the Colorado, Dakota and Oregon series. There were a few fixes, but I want to concentrate on them adding BirdsEye control to profiles. I’m not really sure if you could do this with other map types before; regardless though, I want to point out the granular map controls now available to users of these units, allowing you to easily switch between map types.
Garmin Oregon 450 review
April 13, 2010 By 438 Comments
Hands on with the best Oregon yet
The Garmin Oregon 450
Waypoints — April 10th, 2010
April 10, 2010 By 2 Comments
Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get many of these stories as they break, follow me on Twitter.
Geocaching
- Details on team that grabbed 626 geocaches in 24 hours
- Magellan rolls out plugin for geocaching.com; works with eXplorist GC and Triton series
- Magellan Vantage Point v 1.73 adds direct pocket query download support for geocachers; discussion at Groundspeak and Triton Forum
Waypoints — April 3rd, 2010
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Waypoints is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends. To get many of these stories as they break, follow me on Twitter.
Garmin
- A discussion of bike mounts for the Oregon series
- Tree line coverage comes to the Garmin Approach golf series
- Free Geography Tools starts a series on creating Garmin vector maps; part one covers cgpsmapper
- Details on the latest Garmin Connect release
- Garmin is offering a $50 rebate on the Oregon x50 and Dakota series
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