I love my GPS for the reason that I can set waypoints for important places that I've visited and want to return to maybe a few months later.
If you have good maps, most GPS's will tell you where hotels, hostels, petrol stations are etc too. Thats really handy after 10 hours riding in the dark and rain.
They are REALLY handy in big built up cities (like buenos Aires etc) where the road network is bit mad.
If you know other people with GPS's. They can just give you co-ordiates of cool places, altrenative routes, wild camp sites, danger areas etc etc etc.
In a rush ?? havnt got time to plan a route or dig out maps !! Just type in the address or town and BAM, you're there.
Obviously, you'd be mad to go into the wilderness without paper maps and a good compass and they can make you very lazy and dependant but that's upto the user.
I have absolutely NO SHAME in using my GPS a lot. It's a tool and makes travelling more enjoyable for me.
Did the early navigators / explorers shun off the first guy who used a sextant or a compass ???? (think not)
I really do think that the people who don't like GPS are generally people who dont know how to use them properly or to their full potential.
Garmin 2610 - Best £120 quid i've ever spent !!!
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