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Old 10-13-05 | 02:24 PM
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Leisesturm
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Forgive me but I am just getting up to speed on the whole GPS thing. This site https://www.megagps.com/index.asp has done a lot to get me going. I too was sold on the Edge 305 however for a similar amount of money the Garmin GPS V will talk to you and compute turn by turn routes between addresses like 'real' GPS units in cars do. There is something to be said for a stand alone cycle computer, HRM and GPS. There may be small amounts of overlap of functions but mostly there is a significant improvement in performance when the unit is optimized for the task. I have extremely poor vision and even if I could see the GPS screen I cannot read street signs unless I literally ride right under it an look up. A talking GPS would eliminate a lot of that to say nothing of night trips! If the Edge units computed routes and talked I'd be on them in a hearbeat earlier comments notwithstanding but they don't so...

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