I have a civil engineer friend and client that is wanting to get a handheld gps unit. He asked me what I would buy. I'm not sure what's out there now, and I use my hipers to do recon etc with. The last one that I bought was a Magellan/Thales Mobile Mapper, which is supposed to be a sub meter unit. He don't require sub meter accuracy, but would take one if the price was right.
Can you guys give him some suggestions to look at?
thanks in advance.
The TomTom is very good for messing around with.
What does he mean when he says hand held?
jud
I would agree with the Mobile Mapper or even a PM3 if he wants something that he can grow into and have the ability to download a variety of useable maps as a background to your trek.
Having something that can store everything to an SD card and use the recorded points as input into other systems from cadd to google earth is a great thing.
If he is wanting to go a lesser route, I am fond if my Garman GPSmap 60CSx with the State topo download as a background for 1/10 the price.
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I would suggest a Magellan Meridian for basic navigation and waypoint storage.
I have the very basic Meridian (Green), and I have the ability to input user grids, and currently have TN NAD83 as my primary coordinate system, and WGS84 as my secondary system.
I routinely navigate to post processed GPS control with 8 to 10 feet using keyed in waypoints in the primary coordiante system. Most recently, I navigated to a control point in the middle of a 300 acre soybean field using the Meridan, and was within 8 feet of the point. I would have never found the point without it.
There are tons of them available on ebay ranging from 50 to 150 bucks.
The above comments assume that he is wanting one for basic navigation, and waypoint storage. If he wants something to collect static information, I can suggest the Promark 3. I have two, and they work great.
I hope this helps.
I have a Garmin Rino and love it but I use it for hunting as well. Irreplaceable in my minds. I've also owned a Garmin etrek and an older Garmin Map and loved them both. There are plenty of websites online that have free maps for different brand units but that is a key requirement someone may want to look into before purchase. It's great to have topo quads as a base map in the woods rather than a generic blank map. Price depends on options desired.
> I would suggest a Magellan Meridian for basic navigation and waypoint storage.
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> I have the very basic Meridian (Green), and I have the ability to input user grids, and currently have TN NAD83 as my primary coordinate system, and WGS84 as my secondary system.
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> I routinely navigate to post processed GPS control with 8 to 10 feet using keyed in waypoints in the primary coordiante system. Most recently, I navigated to a control point in the middle of a 300 acre soybean field using the Meridan, and was within 8 feet of the point. I would have never found the point without it.
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> There are tons of them available on ebay ranging from 50 to 150 bucks.
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> The above comments assume that he is wanting one for basic navigation, and waypoint storage. If he wants something to collect static information, I can suggest the Promark 3. I have two, and they work great.
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> I hope this helps.
I also have an older Meridian Gold and it has done me a yeoman's job for several years.
> Irreplaceable in my minds.
Funny.
