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Originally Posted by chilswelluk
Would Glonass and GPS not be useful in more remote parts of the world e.g. the stan countries.
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Both GPS (or more correctly the US GPS satellites .. I forget their name) and Glonass cover the world. The advantage of both is increased accuracy and probably switch on time. None of those things have much impact on the practical use.
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Originally Posted by chilswelluk
One thing that makes me hesitate with the Edge series, is that I have heard they don't offer on the fly navigation and they don't recalculate your route if you miss a turn etc. Do you have any experience with this?
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None. RTFM?
World map..
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Originally Posted by chilswelluk
Is this not feasible now we have very large SD cards? For instance you can now get a 400gb micro SD card.
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No one is offering this .. it would take a lot of computer time, and no one really wants it. Put it this way .. you start in country A .. by the time you get to country Z the map has changed and you want to update it .. the whole world at say 150 Gb .. over a Wifi network? How many days do you want to wait around while that happens? Much easier to take it country by country or continent by continent.
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Originally Posted by chilswelluk
I will be carrying a laptop. So this is okay. Do you know if I can get an offline program to plan the routes for uploading. Would prefer offline than online.
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Garmins Mapsource or Basecamp will do that (avalible free from Garmin) - and you can get the same OSM maps onto the windows or mac laptop for free.
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Originally Posted by chilswelluk
So what do I do when OSM is not fine? Will I be able to upload other types of maps to the Garmin Edge cycle units or make my own maps from google eath etc?
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RTFM on the Garmin Edge cycle units for 'other types of map'.. I think they only take Garmin format maps. Garmin is probably the most popular brand around the world so you are well served with reasonable maps where ever you go. You can improve the OSM data .. but only when you know that it is wrong/missing and that may not be until after you are there. But it is a suitable pay back to them for the free service.
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