Mapping programs and Garmin RV770
I just purchased a Jayco 21' trailer and plan to take a cross country trip later this year. I am looking to buy a Garmin RV770 GPS unit to help my navigation. I would also like to use the RV Trip wiza...
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Lantley wrote:
You guys are selling the RV760 a bit short. I have had one for a few years now and have not had an major issues. I particularly like the integrated BC-20 wireless camera.
The GPS is only as smart as the operator, shortest distance setting includes dirt roads for this reason I never use shortest distance setting.
As always never trust any GPS 100%. Always verify with a 2nd source.
we've had one since it came out and I agree. I love the wireless camera, one of the very very few that is designed to work at the back end of a long trailer.
As for the mapping and directions, again, shortest distance means exactly that.
Garmin gets the map info like most others from a common source, yes it isn't perfect, I agree.
But at the same time I've used it to travel on FS improved and unimproved roads to find obsure out of the way site seeing places and it was dead on tracking the FS roads and correct turns (which anymore often aren't marked since vandals sometimes destroy the markers). In some cases even better and more accurate than USGS maps that hadn't been updated in a few years.
