Best car gps under or around 250 dollars? I’m looking for a decent car gps navigation system that’s under or around $250.
It will be replacing my Magellan Roadmate 360, which has some serious issues. First, it doesn’t have retail stores beyond restaurants and gas stations listed in the points of interest database. Second, it requires you to put in the township/district instead of the real city or town name when putting in an address, which is pretty impossible to determine beforehand.
So basically, I’m looking for something with a big points …

Garmin Nuvi 260 Car GPS – good basics, looking to get a good car GPS (such as a Garmin, TomTom or Magellan). The Nuvi 260 looks like a good choice. Can anyone else recommend? I am looking for just a GPS, no fancy MP3 or video capability. Realtime traffic updates is a feature I’d like to have on it. Garmin nuvi 360 and I love it. Here’s some notes that I’ve compiled .
What I love about it:
You can subscribe to real time traffic – comes with 1 year free, …

Which Car GPS is best when it comes to updating maps ? I just moved into a new residential development and my Magellan RoadMate 800 does not have the latest map. I have search the internet and found that i cannot update maps. buy a new GPS that would allow me to update maps.tom tom by far!tom tom

This boat has a Magellan GPS and will have a Laptop running whatever NAV software this setup will require. The Idea is to be able to have the boat travel a route as programmed into the GPS waypoint by waypoint. if the PC is not required great!
We have an older Magellan GPS (Meridian XL) and it interfaced beautifully with our Autohelm 2000+. We have an Acer Aspire laptop (w/Cap’n Voyager program) hooked into the system as which we use as a chartplotter, but it is NOT required for us …