Thread: Garmin rino 650 $399

whats the Mr Purple ones like??

From what I can tell they are bloody good, and specially so at 69 bucks. They will not work in conjuction wioth any other mapping software such as freshmap though, so if if you want to use them in conjunction with your PC, you need to have Garmin trip & waypoint manager/basecamp downloaded already.

im computer retarded at the best of times, simple jobs become a mission, give me a set of spanners and a socket set and i can fix nearly anything, now how do i get these free maps?

Where do I find Mr Purple

Originally Posted by Tristan

im computer retarded at the best of times, simple jobs become a mission, give me a set of spanners and a socket set and i can fix nearly anything, now how do i get these free maps?

See this tread - works for 1 topo LINZ map

http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...nstalls-12496/

This particular listing closed, but i am sure you will find an e-mail in there to make contact direct. Or look out for new listing

Mr Purples NZ Topo maps for garmin devices v12.2 | Trade Me

There are methods to get the Garmin v4 maps for Aus and NZ for significantly cheaper. Works a mint with my Rino.

So first impressions
Fresh loads faster, has more detail when zoomed (same settings)
Mr purple feels a tiny tiny but slower and has less topo lines but is clearer and easy to read.


I feel I get a better idea of how steep a hill is with the freshmaps.

Mr purple



Freshmaps
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you can have both maps loaded on the gps at the same time and choose between the two "on the fly"

I thought the mr p maps were copies of Linz and therefore would have standard 20mtr contour lines the same as freshmap.

Out of interest do these opperate on the same frequency that CB's do? IE my mates that use their radios for 4wd'ing this will be compatible?

Originally Posted by Timmay

Out of interest do these opperate on the same frequency that CB's do? IE my mates that use their radios for 4wd'ing this will be compatible?

Timmay

I think so.

My mate has midland radios and we have no trouble sending and receiving as long as we use the same channels.

Cheers
Pete