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trevovski1
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:10 pm    Post subject: Central/South America Reply with quote

I will be traveling all ver central and south America in coming months and would like a suitbale GPS handheld unit. From what I have read most seem geared towards the northern hemisphere. Is this just a marketing thing or will they really only work north of the equator...this makes sense with regards sat allignment etc.

Any advise?

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The G in GPS stands for Global...

The reality is though that there are no street navigation programs available for Latin/South America (at least none that I know of) so you will have to live with topographis programs and scanned paper maps.

I believe there's some open source mapping going on in Brasil, but that's for Garmin devices, not for Pocket PCs.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was wondering about this too thinking that I will be in Ecuador in the near future. I've had trouble locating something that would suit my needs down there.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:14 pm    Post subject: Any new maps? Reply with quote

This discussion of GPS usage in South America took place in 2005. Is there any new information now that it is 2008?

I am specifically interested in Ecuador.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

iGO seem to come out with a few South America maps. Not Ecuador though.
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