Thread: Garmin Monterra GPS

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

Yeah true, does it cover NZ?

Yeah mate has it for his Oregon 450. From memory its $50NZ per year for PC. You then load selected areas onto your device and once done its there for ever. So a device with good internal mem is going to be able to take more.

That satellite overlay would be the shit!!! I only seem to use a GPS for wallow and track marking or if ever in flat bush somewhere new. But I do appreciate all the extras you can get.

Ha ha to right munsey it's quite bad really how far behind a handheld gps is when compared to smart phones, sure they are a bit more rugged but screen resolution and sensitivity is pretty much like a 5 year old phone... I do like the buddy location and message feature on the rhino tho..

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Ha ha to right munsey it's quite bad really how far behind a handheld gps is when compared to smart phones, sure they are a bit more rugged but screen resolution and sensitivity is pretty much like a 5 year old phone... I do like the buddy location and message feature on the rhino tho..

Screen resolution and processing speed on my 650 is pretty sweet. Has a 8 megapixel camera, led flash that doubles as a light. I dont know what it is but I just cant rely on my iPhone for this stuff. To fragile?

I think the smartphone companies should start building purpose built GPS units and drive the tech up and cost down.

What model Gibo? I guess if I was to compare a 62s specs to a smart phone (62s normally $500 ish) I could get everything the 62 has plus a half decent camera and 10x better screen not to mention apps ect in a $80 smart phone....

The selling point for me on the rhino is the radio/message feature...

Now what I would buy would be one of these monterras, with a radio feature and a plb all in one unit. That would be an awesome bit of kit

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

What model Gibo? I guess if I was to compare a 62s specs to a smart phone (62s normally $500 ish) I could get everything the 62 has plus a half decent camera and 10x better screen not to mention apps ect in a $80 smart phone....

The selling point for me on the rhino is the radio/message feature...

Now what I would buy would be one of these monterras, with a radio feature and a plb all in one unit. That would be an awesome bit of kit

This one.
https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/on-t...rod113520.html

What's the "buddy feature " on view ranger ?

Originally Posted by Munsey

What's the "buddy feature " on view ranger ?

You can check where friends have been and stuff like that if you both allow it. Don't believe it's live though - or not unless you have cell reception. Could come in handy though if you wanted to tell a mate about a real good spot, etc.

I nearly bought a top of the range dedicated GPS but then just thought i'd check what sort of apps are available. There are far too many reports of the GPS on top of the line phones outperforming the dedicated GPS devices. To me the only advantage is the durability or ruggedness, as mentioned. But I think that can be negated.

I'm glad i've limited my devices, but still have to carry phone, binos, rangefinder, plb. Now if someone could come up with a smart phone that was also a PLB and maybe even a rangefinder.....

Legend mate

I find Microsoft's Bing Sat pics to be of a better quality than Google.

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

I find Microsoft's Bing Sat pics to be of a better quality than Google.

Shit yes, thanks mate thats way clearer to look at

@MattyP a South Island example might make it more obvious

And one more for good measure, this time zoomed out a bit. The actual picture on-screen is clearer than the attached pic, I guess it's compressed somewhere along the way.

As for DOC boundaries I know you can download the DOC boundaries for the entire country on koordinates website but it is a huge ass csv file that'd need converting to kml. Shame you can't just download the area you want as the website gives you the option to download as a.kml file but the entire country is too large apparently. You'd need to cut and convert the areas of interest from the csv file.

Originally Posted by SIKAHUNTER

And one more for good measure, this time zoomed out a bit. The actual picture on-screen is clearer than the attached pic, I guess it's compressed somewhere along the way.

As for DOC boundaries I know you can download the DOC boundaries for the entire country on koordinates website but it is a huge ass csv file that'd need converting to kml. Shame you can't just download the area you want as the website gives you the option to download as a.kml file but the entire country is too large apparently. You'd need to cut and convert the areas of interest from the csv file.

Now that's more like it! Definitely look like 1:50,000 now. I wonder what maps they are, as they look different to the LINZ ones that Viewranger uses. What are they called?

Sounds like a hassle to add the DOC boundaries, I guess i'll just stick to my basic method of drawing them in by having Viewranger open and referencing against the DOC ones.

DOC could definitely make life easier in terms of availability of information. Yes, you can find it on their site, but the site is a total shit fight. It took me quite a while to find the maps with approved hunting areas shaded in, and it still does, and i'm reasonably tech savvy. Not to mention some maps cut off and the hunting area goes off the page, and I assume you have to try and find the block next to it and then put those maps side by side to figure it all out. I haven't had to do that yet, thank fuck. It's no wonder that people get caught out in the wrong areas if you ask me!

Originally Posted by MattyP

Now that's more like it! Definitely look like 1:50,000 now. I wonder what maps they are, as they look different to the LINZ ones that Viewranger uses. What are they calef

They are from the NZtopomaps database. Might look different because you can select different view options for the same map, eg shading on/off, normal/low/high contrast on/off, night mode or layers on/off. Here's some examples of the same map but with different options enabled.


Standard contrast, no shading


High contrast with shading


Standard contrast with shading


Low contrast with shading


Night mode no shading ;p

I reckon the shading makes the maps almost look 3D.