Looking for a good & inexpensive GPS
 

unit for hiking and maybe use in my vehicles? Anyone suggest any?

I've enjoyed my Garmin Legend quite a lot. There's lots spiffier color, higher rez portables out there today, but these are tough and pretty inexpensive, especially used on *bay.

One of my patients has been using a Tom-Tom to track his wife's movements. It appears to work very well, since when his brother found where the patient had hidden it in the wife's car car and removed it, the patient was able to find the device using the "use the internet to see where your bad teenager is going with your car" feature and presumably replaced it in the car.

So did he catch up with the wife??

No I'm not, you're not putting me on the spot. :headshake

Cell phone are chock full of functions that must be disabled by the phone company (i.e. Nokia) to sell their products via the cell phone companies (i.e. Cingular). For example, cell phones have WiFi. Setup your phone and every laptop in the room can have high speed internet access. That function has been disabled (but it will work if you cell phone was originally purchased in Europe).

Another function also disabled would keep a running total of your minutes. Cingular also demanded that function be disabled so that you will not know how much phone time remains.

GPS is also in cell phones. Push a button. Then walk to another point. Push a button again. Now you have measured the distance.

GPS tied to a database works just fine on cell phones. But again, some cell phone companies want the function disabled - a free function only enabled when you use only their GPS service.

Cell phone is expected to even replace the credit card. But again, the 'powers that be' fear innovation just as the RIAA feared music downloading. Welcome to a world chock full of options - but you cannot be trusted to know those functions even exist.

In Britain you can have the "cell" you are in displayed on your phone. In practice this means the first half of the postcode.

Never found a use for it, but it proves TW's point.

I'm playing with a Garmin GPS 60 at the moment - Geocaching etc. So far it seems pretty good. It's only black & white but seems very accurate.