GPS to end all GPS, for now…
Easily the most important thing on any camping/walking trip is knowing where you are, and this has developed over the millennia from a rough guess to the great, but amazingly fiddly OS maps. They are amazing, and the perfect way to navigate, but the come with three problems, 1) you don’t know where you are, 2) you don’t know where your facing and 3) they are big, awkward and the place that you are seems to always be right on the edge of two maps, or on the fold (I swear they do it deliberately). Oh, and I forgot, you cant fit a country’s worth of OS maps in you packet.
So GPS came along, and what a revelation it was to, changing the way we navigate our way around hostile environments making it safer and more accessible. However, as nice as this was, they were damn hard to use, and only showed pathetically simple and hard to use maps. But now, prepare yourself for the ultimate in mapping technology…the satmap active 10.
Easily the best GPS system on the market at the moment, and priced at around $500 you could probably guess that. The naps (which come on SD cards) are to 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scales, and are brilliantly detailed and really show you the area around you properly. It includes:
- Electronic compass
- Direction indicator (very quick refresh rate, which is brilliant and something other GPS systems lack)
- On board route planning (very easy to use and set up)
- Map orientation (again very easy to use)
It also has all the other things that you would expect and some that you wouldn’t, like a bike mount and replaceable screen cover. The battery is also pretty good (rechargeable) and it comes in a waterproof and shockproof casing.
Verdict: The perfect GPS, dont go walking without it!
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