big screen gps

[shrek and fiona]

I want to get a gps that will mount in my truck and will have a big screen I only want to use it for the road navigation not for the woods
anyone have an idea what gps has the biggest screen and easy to upload caches to it
thanks for the help

[K0rpl]

You cannot beat the Garmin StreetPilot 2610, or 2720, or 2820.

The 2610 you can buy as a factory refurb on-line for about 350.00 comes with bean bag mount, hard mount, adjustable bracket, City Navigator software, as well as all cables, and power adapters. a caching parnter KS9WI, just bought one about three months ago, and it is great.

Justin

[marc_54140]

Copy what k0rpal says!

Sheila is a 2610, loaded with 1 gig of memory, and lots of waypoints!

[Cheesehead Dave]

If you want really big screen, you could get yourself a cheap laptop and run Streets and Trips and attach that to a car mount, then use a bluetooth GPS.

You’ll have the benefits of a navigation system that you can easily upload geocache waypoints, plus you can run your geocaching software, like GSAK.

I do this when I go on day-long cache runs, although I don’t have a mount for the laptop so I have to avoid sudden stops so I don’t dump it all on the floor. It all works great, however!

[notmuch]

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

If you want really big screen, you could get yourself a cheap laptop and run Streets and Trips and attach that to a car mount, then use a bluetooth GPS.

OR…use your laptop with a Garmin GPS 18 USB–a USB gps receiver that’s about the size of a small pancake. It comes with nRoute/City Select CD, and waypoints are EASILY downloaded via GSAK. GoTo routes, Elevation, Distance, ETA, etc….
We used this while touring Nevada/Arizona/California and it was a true blessing!!

[PCFrog]

@notmuch wrote:

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

If you want really big screen, you could get yourself a cheap laptop and run Streets and Trips and attach that to a car mount, then use a bluetooth GPS.

OR…use your laptop with a Garmin GPS 18 USB–a USB gps receiver that’s about the size of a small pancake. It comes with nRoute/City Select CD, and waypoints are EASILY downloaded via GSAK. GoTo routes, Elevation, Distance, ETA, etc….
We used this while touring Nevada/Arizona/California and it was a true blessing!!

Or…

You can hook up a 30 inch LCD monitor to you laptop and mount that… 🙄

[K0rpl]

Why stop there, when Panasonic just introuduced a new 85″ LCD Flat Panel. Hmmm. That got me thinking, I wonder if they will ever put a touch screen in them????? Endless Possibilities.

Justin

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

Being one to not let the ridiculous pass me by,

How about getting hologram built in as a head up display across the windshield?

[Really Im Not Lost]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

Being one to not let the ridiculous pass me by,

How about getting hologram built in as a head up display across the windshield?

and then you could find a 1:1 scale map and have it projected on the windshield 😆 …oh wait that would be the same thing you see out the windshield now!!

[K0rpl]

Yeah, but you would be using technology man…..
Where is my human space transporter. I knew I parked it near this moving sidewalk!!!

Justin

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