Just a quick post to say that I have finally received stock of the new Garmap Africa Series 2009 DVD’s. They came in this afternoon but so far I have not had a chance to even load them onto my PC yet (I have been far too busy getting the product pages up on the [...]
The first 5 things that we recommend you do as soon as you take your new Garmin GPS out of the box, to ensure that your unit runs smoothly and without hassles.
Apart from the Nuvi 710 and the Nuvi 200W swapping 2nd and 3rd places, there is no change from last months top 5 ranking. The Nuvi 200 and 200W are still selling well, mostly due to heavily discounted prices as stores desperately try and get rid of their old stock.
Despite the similarly aggressive pricing of [...]
This is the first post in this series of “Top 10 GPS units sold in South Africa” posts so please read of the note at the bottom of this post. These lists are simply intended to give you, the reader, a better idea of the GPS market trends in SA. I will also be including [...]
Yes, the Garmin Nuvi 860 with Speech Recognition has finally hit South African shores!
This really is a very nice looking unit but I don’t want to delve too much into the aesthetics or even the standard functionality of this unit in this post. The Nuvi 860 is obviously a top of the range unit similar [...]
I have my reservations about the relevance of the info, as given on the Apple.com website, regarding the 3G iPhone’s GPS navigation functionality for South African users.
Here’s another video, this time showing some of the differences between the Garmin City Navigator SA v6 maps and our own, locally produced, Garmap Southern Africa Streetmaps v1.5
I get asked at least once a day why we (South Africans), don’t sell the Garmin City Navigator SA maps in our own country (‘detailed’ maps of South [...]
Base Maps vs. Detailed Maps:
The first thing to understand is what people are talking about when they talk about ‘Base Maps’ and ‘Detailed Maps’. A ‘Base Map’ is the mapset that is loaded to the GPS units’ internal memory at factory level and as such cannot be altered or even deleted. Basemaps come in three [...]
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