Garmin eTrex Vista H Handheld GPS Navigator Review
September 27th, 2009
Garmin eTrex Vista H Handheld GPS Navigator Review from Reviewer. Nice unit, but poor documentation and worthless basemap, Being new to GPS, I was excited to see what all I could do with this thing and how to make it do it. Unfortunately, the instruction manual is very vague. Many of the menu features are not even listed and the functions are not explained. It’s basically, “to get to here, press this button”. How about some examples? If you already are familiar with GPS, I suppose this would be fine, but it has been countless hours of experimentation to figure out some of the funtions.
Also, the basemap that comes with this is very basic – just major roads. There are also limited maps that you can purchase for this, and in fact I don’t think the Garmin site accurately lists all that are available (I would think that the Vista H would support all the maps the Vista supports, but the site says no). Expect to pay $120 for a map disk. I’m thinking the 100K topo map would be the best since it shows detailed streets and items of interest in parks. It’s pretty lame as a topo map though from the demo on the Garmin site.
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