Recreational GPS
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A central resource about GPS receivers for recreational use.
Recreational GPS aims to offer recreational users a central resource about GPS receivers. Whether your interest is in using GPS for geocaching, hiking, trekking, boating, off-road 4x4, or any other outdoor pursuit, make this page your home.
Please drop by regularly to catch up on the latest information about recreational GPS.
The picture is of the GPS receiver was photographed by Dirk DE KEGEL.
What to consider when buying a GPS
It might seem obvious but the most important thing to think about is exactly what you want to use it for. Do you want use a GPS for family "treasure hunts" and Geocaching? Are you a keen walker, do you just take short circular paths or are you in to long distance walks? Is your idea of recreation getting wet, do you feel cheated if when you get home the seat of your pants are still dry? Will you be climbing mountains and need an altimeter? Or will you only ever be using your GPS when in a vehicle?
The answer to this question will help you to define the specification that you need a GPS receiver to meet. Typical considerations will be:
- Is it shockproof and does it matter?
- Is it waterproof and does it matter?
- What accuracy is needed?
- Do you need a GPS that supports maps covering a specific region?
- What is the battery life, how long will the unit remain working after being fully charged?
- How big is the receiver?
- How heavy is the receiver?
- What is the cost?
- Is there good customer support?
The Big Players
- Garmin
- Garmin is probably the best known name in GPS. Their corporate objective has been declared to create navigation and communication devices that can enrich their customers' lives; which is an objective that they have pursued with a whole range of recreational GPS products.
- Magellan
- Possibly best known for vehicle navigation systems, their Triton series offers a range of ruggedized and waterproof hand-held, portable GPS units aimed at the recreational market.
- TomTom
- TomTom focuses on car navigation. Their products include Portable Navigation Devices (PNDs), fitted navigation solutions, and software for use on PDAs and smartphones. They also supplies digital maps that enable routing guidance, through their Tele Atlas unit.
Suggested requirements for a GPS used for trekking
Multiple channel
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Suggested requirements for a GPS used for hiking
Waypoint compatible
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High sensitivity receiver
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Mapping capability
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India maps for Garmin PND
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Books about getting the most out of GPS
Suggested requirements for a GPS used for water sports
Marine instrumentation specification
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Blogging about Recreational GPS
- USAF Awards Lockheed Martin GPS III Flight Operations Contract
- by Staff Writers The US Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $68 million contract to provide mission readiness, launch, early orbit checkout and on-orbit operations engineering support for the first two GPS III space vehicles.
- Mind Matters: Program 'life GPS' to know when you're off track
- By Jena and Ed Bloch While driving, if we make a turn that takes us in the wrong direction, our GPS reminds us with the words, ?You are now off track.? After one of these events, we were musing how nice it would be if we had a GPS for our lives ...
- Choose Happiness: Listen to Your Happiness GPS
- I knew that the "happiness GPS" inside me was telling me to make a choice. It made me evaluate the fact that happiness is a choice, and sometimes especially when you have this awareness of this choice, it isn't an easy one.
- KTM's Cairoli and Herlings clean up the MX GPs of France
- by Jon Crowley on 03/06/12 at 9:52 pm Red Bull KTM factory riders Tony Cairoli and Jeffrey Herlings both picked up wins in the MX1 and MX2 GPs of France at Saint Jean d'Angely on Sunday to extend their leads in their respective championships.
Geocaching Blog Posts
- Wyoming State Museum creates geocache
- A geocache is a hidden location pinpointed with Global Positioning System technology. The location's existence and coordinates are shared online for members of the geocache community to try and find. Geocaching has become enormously popular in recent ...
- Friends of Hudson Parks introduce 'Geocaching Adventure'
- Parks Superintendent Eric Hutchinson and Friends of Hudson Parks board member Rhonda Kadish have hidden geocaches at six Hudson parks to launch ?Geocaching Adventure.? Kadish is holding the geocache container for Hudson Springs Park.
- Geocaching in Port Jefferson; Treasure Hunt With Your Smartphone
- By Brendan J. O'Reilly If you have visited local parks or hiking trails, chances are you have passed a geocache, but you would never actually spot it unless you were looking ? aided by a GPS device. Geocaching is a fun way to turn family walks into an ...
GPS and Geocaching news
Geocache Tokens
Some good GPS buys
Garmin nüvi 260W 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
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Garmin nüvi 285W/285WT 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic
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Garmin nüvi 255W 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
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Great value recreational GPS
The Garmin Blog
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