E-TREX “Legend”
 

Hello.
I have the opportunity to buy a GPS Garmin E-TREX “Legend” at a very good price. But I don’t know to much about it. Is there anybody who can tell me if that is the model properly to travel on a motorcycle?
Thank you.
Javier


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I bought the etrex Summit, but its very similar. You'll see from all the comments about GPS that there are many different views. I looked into which GPS to buy and did I indead need one at all. This may seem an in efficient way to use one but I have obtained all the latitude and longitude coordinates for my trip from the calle.com site. Each day I will enter a route into my GPS based on these coordinates. This is a very basic way of using a GPS but so far it has proved to be very effective. I looked at buying the more expensive units such Garmin V or the street pilot which have mapping facilities. I found that the problem was that the mapping software for the locations that I will be visiting either doesn't exist or is very expensive. I bought the Summit on ebay, it cost me £100. Together with a good road map the Summit proves invaluable.

Hope this helps.

I've the etrex venture, wich does what it should do.

I put most waypoints in using gps software (TTQV) and scanned in rastermaps. Alternatively, just picking co-ordinates from a paper map.

I don't think the map features are something to invest in, unless you could load and reference raster images.

Rob

Is one little problem with Legend etrex familiy. In my bike big vibraction kill LCD screen and this was happend to my friend Legend too. Now I'm owner of bigger Garmin.