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DeLorme Earthmate PN-60W Portable GPS Navigator

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Uwe Port Moody B.C. Apr 17, 2012	MANY GREAT FEATURES TOO DIFFICULT TO LEARN TOO EAS Pros: great capabilities for working with maps images Cons: too difficult to learn and too easy to forget This unit has great features but is not user friendly. I am a geologist that has used GPS units professionally for over 23 years. I bought this unit because of the advertised mapping capabilities and the availability of satellite images and map layer capabilities. The other great feature I thought was the safety aspect with the optional inSight? transmitter for remote communication. I found the waypoint aquisition to be the most irritating feature. Once you name a waypoint that name continues to be the default. So if you marked the location of your "Truck", every waypoint is labelled Truck, Truck 1, Truck 2, Truck 3 etc. This makes my job of sample identification and data collection tedious because you have to re-edit every following waypoint. The Mapping software that comes with the unit looks great but is also very difficult to figure out. It follows none of the common conventions for mapping software. For example, I have yet to figure out how to download a list of waypoints and export it to other software I use. Potentially this is a great product but it is more like trying to learn basic GIS software. If you are a casual user for hiking or camping forget it. Professional GIS savvy users may find this GPS to be a very useful tool. I would love to use the features that are available in this system but the interfaces need to be redesigned and tested by actual potential users. I also have to consider problems training field workers to use this unit and in my view that would be too difficult. The bottom line is, I will be using this GPS as truck mounted navigation tool using the map database that came with the unit. But I will be using a more user friendly GPS for field data collection. Recommend? NO 6 viewers found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

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