Best GPS for Europe navigation & route capture

General talk
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Hi

I’m busy selecting a GPS that must fit these criteria below. Any recommendations please?

  1. Must navigate routes by car in Ireland, Uk & complete Europe. (None-negotionable with wife)
  2. Capture logs that I can use in OSM. (Capability to retrieve coordinates by Bluetooth from pda would be enouth for me)

Regards, Gert

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Please have a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing in the OSM-wiki.

But please keep in mind that the OSM data ist still not reliable for secure routing in Europe. When you want to spend some money, try to get a professional routing device like garmin, tomtom, navigon, medion etc.

With some of them you can log your trips in gpx or nmea format to contribute to OSM.

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If you want to be able to choose between OpenStreetMap maps and commercial maps on the same device, then I know only of Garmin brand devices. But routable OSM maps on Garmin devices is in beta stage at best. Some get great results, some are dissapointed…