Garmin Nuvi 500

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16 May 2009 Not bad, but not all good either. This unit is fairly nice, but its more of an on-the-road GPS. It has a terrific 3D view and works well at guiding you down the road. It does lack any way of holding it when in the back country though, and has no screen lock for when you throw it in your backpack, so the touch screen goes nuts while in the pack. It also only comes with the 1:100K TOPO's which are about as useless as they get in the woods, and at the moment Garmin has no TOPO 1:24K maps for the NorthEast, and you have to purchase ... –D. Grangerfrom Amazon.com
08 May 2009 Excellent unit.. but know something about map updates The Nuvi 500 (vs. the 550) has TOPO maps of the US. Great, but this creates an issue when Garmin releases new maps for their GPSes. The 2010 maps for this will not be available until summer, and if the included 2009 maps are any indication, they may be out of date compared to the standard 2010 maps for their other units. For example, in Milwaukee a major construction for the interstates is completed and included with the 2009 maps for the rest of the GPS line, but it is NOT in the 2009 map ve... –Jason Reuschleinfrom Amazon.com
03 May 2009 cool machine my first gps . easy to use - survived well my first heavy off-raod trip - lots of mud and water around and it run beautiful - after it, i cleaned it and looks as new - i live in brazil .... working great here ... only had to load southamerica map ... rgds ! –Mauricio Poulsenfrom Amazon.com

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