Anybody else desire the Garmin Edge 705?

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  • schlepcycling
    schlepcycling Posts: 1,614
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    Bus stops are your friend... they tell you where you're heading and some have maps as well

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  • SamWise72
    SamWise72 Posts: 453
    This would suit me great. I have to find my way to all sorts of locations in London, and maps are a PITA.
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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    Well, I got my Edge 705 the other day, and very nice it is too, paid a bit over the odds for it but the cheaper shops didn't have any stock when I ordered. I also had to offload the money I'd reserved for it before the wife spotted it resting in my account and spent it on new curtains or even more bloody cushions.

    The map sitatuation is not good though. The basemap included with the unit is utterly useless, so that needs upgrading straight away, but I'm also reading bad things about the Garmin topo maps. They're very expensive and slightly crap apparently, and there doesn't seem to be an alternative. So I might just have to stick the city navigator map on it which is good value at 60 squid for very good european road coverage, just no tracks and trails at all, whereas the topo at least has some.

    It's shame cos I really wanted to use it for hiking as well as cycling, looks like I'll be pre planning and uploading a route to follow for that.
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  • Kafka\'s Doll
    Kafka\'s Doll Posts: 208
    prj45 wrote:
    It's shame cos I really wanted to use it for hiking as well as cycling, looks like I'll be pre planning and uploading a route to follow for that.
    How are you going to do that, out of interest? Won't it only do route planning inside the unit if you buy the map on an SD card? I got the UK one, and it's mostly fine, but some of the routing is weird. I live in NW London but when I told it I wanted to go to Bedford it sends me via Cambridge! To be able to add my own routes would be much better.
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    Kafka\'s Doll wrote:
    How are you going to do that, out of interest? Won't it only do route planning inside the unit if you buy the map on an SD card? I got the UK one, and it's mostly fine, but some of the routing is weird. I live in NW London but when I told it I wanted to go to Bedford it sends me via Cambridge! To be able to add my own routes would be much better.

    You need Mapsource from Garmin, Garmin will send it to you on CD if you ask.

    I don't think the download will work for you, but you could give it a try (if you've install the maps on your PC it may well work): -

    http://www8.garmin.com/support/download ... jsp?id=209

    With this software you can lay down tracks and then tell your Edge to follow them.
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  • pjh
    pjh Posts: 204
    now available on Ebay :D

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  • Kafka\'s Doll
    Kafka\'s Doll Posts: 208
    prj45 wrote:
    Kafka\'s Doll wrote:
    How are you going to do that, out of interest? Won't it only do route planning inside the unit if you buy the map on an SD card? I got the UK one, and it's mostly fine, but some of the routing is weird. I live in NW London but when I told it I wanted to go to Bedford it sends me via Cambridge! To be able to add my own routes would be much better.

    You need Mapsource from Garmin, Garmin will send it to you on CD if you ask.

    I don't think the download will work for you, but you could give it a try (if you've install the maps on your PC it may well work): -

    http://www8.garmin.com/support/download ... jsp?id=209

    With this software you can lay down tracks and then tell your Edge to follow them.
    Aha, sadly (in this instance only!) I have a Mac. And if you buy the maps on microSD you can't install them onto a computer. But I have discovered that you can import and follow routes from Bikely, so long as you have fewer than 100 waypoints.
  • andrewc3142
    andrewc3142 Posts: 906
    Nope. Maybe if I was riding round the Sahara or something I'd think different, but in the UK GPS is a (pricey) solution to a problem which doesn't exist. Maps work fine.
  • tutster
    tutster Posts: 2
    personally if i had bought the topo gb v2 map + city navigator map i would not be impressed with the edge 705, but as i got both maps for free (unlocked/cracked versions) via bittorrent i absolutelly love it, paid £279, got hr &cadesence, paid nothing for the maps, the way it should be :D

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