anybody used both quest and 2610?

[birdseye]

am going to buy a gps next week - would prefer to spend less on the quest, but is it big enough for easy reading when mounted on a bike's bars? I'm past the age when I could tell the sex of a fly at 25 yards - now I can just manage number plates!

So in practical use, is it worth coughing up the difference for the 2610?

 

[Deleted account W]

Buy the 2610 if you want to look at a big map.

Buy the Quest if you want to carry the gps in your pocket when not on the bike.

Buy the 2610 if you want to have the whole of Europe available on the GPS all the time.

Buy the Quest if you want to route plan in your tent/hotel room/bar using its batterys.

Buy the 2610 if you can afford it.

Buy the Quest if you can't.

Does that make it easier?

 

[stumpi]

Seconded,

I use a 2610. and love it, I feel the quests screen is a little small, but do think it handy with the batteries an all.

 

[Deleted account W]

Seconded,

Hmm

I didn't want to look at big maps

I wanted to carry the gps in my pocket when not on the bike.

I didn't need to have the whole of Europe available on the GPS all the time.

I wanted to route plan in my tent/hotel room/bar using the Quests batterys.

I couldn't afford a 2610.

I bought a Quest

 

[stumpi]

LOL

 

[cookie]

Hmm

I did want to look at big maps, but the 2610's screen is not much bigger than a quest.

I wanted to carry the gps in my pocket when not on the bike. big pockets on my HG suit. shame i now have a rukka with useless little things

I didn't need to have the whole of Europe available on the GPS all the time, but it's nice to know it's there.

I wanted to route plan in my tent/hotel room/bar using the Quests batterys. i did actually want to do that

I couldn't afford a 2610. f*ck it, I bought one anyway, and very nice it is too

 

[judge]

Own a 2610 but have had a good deal of a play with the Quest and before that I had a SPIII and before that a GPSV, I like the Quest in fact I like it a lot - for its portability, its size its speed (over GPS V and SPIII, colour screen, voice prompts) the GPSV it was designed to replace had mono screen, no voice prompts and a paltry 19MB memory.

Get the Quest mounted on a RAM arm on the cross brace or up around the clutch reservoir and you should see the screen fine. And as Cookie says the screen sizes aren't greatly different.

I'd have the Quest and I guess I'd get used to again the non-touch screen way of 'typing' but now I'm spoilt with the 2610, oh and I haven't felt the need for a big card, I'm still managing just fine with the original 256MB card.

 

[Twotter]

You only live once so go mad and get both - enjoy the best of both worlds

PS. I've got a Quest and it's great.

 

[julio100]

go to maplns they give you 14 days to see if you like it

 

[Smalesy]

Sorry to come in on this -

How much of Europe can the Quest hold, my ambition on my new bike is to get the ferry the Stavanger and ride cross contry to my Outlaws who live on the Algarve.

Assuming that I didn't go via the Ukraine, would the Quest hold the whole route?

If it would not take the whole, is there any means of downloading a preprepared route onto one, perhaps with a modem link and mobile telephone?

Steve

 

[Deleted account W]

Sorry to come in on this -

How much of Europe can the Quest hold, my ambition on my new bike is to get the ferry the Stavanger and ride cross contry to my Outlaws who live on the Algarve.

Assuming that I didn't go via the Ukraine, would the Quest hold the whole route?

The theory that the Quests memory is too small for European trips is bunkum.

Take a look at these two threads......

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46377

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48867

 

[judge]

Here's is a route on Mapsource from Stravanger, Norway to Albufeira, Portugal as a guide. I've used the built-in tool to select maps around the route and as you can see from the attached pic, the total maps for the route is 198.2MB leaving you another 50MB to add additional map areas dependent on where you think you may be heading. This route is direct (fastest time) 2390 miles and it is unlikely you would go this way, rather you'd select to go via some interesting bits which will stretch the journey considerably and that is where the limitations of the Quests memory may bite you on the arse.

Until you know where you want to go via it will be difficult to say yay or nay but it would be worth getting a map and not letting the limitations of the units memory to curtail your adventures, espcecially as you may find yourselve choosing to cover some ground quick via a motorway for which the GPS would be an irrelevance.

 

[judge]

The theory that the Quests memory is too small for European trips is bunkum.

Not a theory I subscribe to - happy to manage with my 256 card in the 2610 (which makes it equiv to a Quest in memory terms), as long as you use the Mapsource tool correctly you can get quite a trip into the memory.

 

[birdseye]

One issue with memory is "bloat" ie the way that all software requires ever more memory when updated (remember 64k ram in your PC?). Maybe GPS sets arent "buy now - keep for ever" but I dont want to buy a quest now and find I have to buy a new one in 3 years time because the memory wont take the latest maps.

Any body know how much the size increase has been in the 2610 mapping since it was brought out? Is bloat a problem or not?

 

[Deleted account W]

Buy a 2610 and you won't have to worry, you know you want to

 

[judge]

I can only tell you that from v5.0 of Mapsource to v6.0 there was an increase in size for the same mapset.

On my old SPIII (Mapsource v5.0) I used to be able to get almost all of Mainland UK on a 128MB card, to provide the same coverage with Mapsource v6.0 it comes out at 143.6MB, it may be different again in v7.0 but I don't know.

 

[gfspencer]

I have a Quest. It is a nice small GPS - easy to carry in your pocket, battery powered. I carry it when I ride my Duck - in case I get REAL lost.

I bought the NavII Plus(basically a 2610) for my GS. I like the NavII better for the motorcycle - bigger screen.

You can't go wrong with either one.

 

[guitarman]

On the theory that the memory is too small is it possible that for a long trip (like the one Judge posted earlier) to only load the sections of the map you're going to need. i.e. on a 200 mile stretch of motorway you're doing in the middle of the day I wouldn't see the need for that section.

Or does it not work like that?

Cheers

Dick

 

[judge]

Or does it not work like that?

What a shame your GPS didn't turn up a day earlier we could have talked about that instead of whatever nonsense was talked about last night!

In theory yes it can work like that though in truth if my long trip had large motorway sections in it and I was short on space I'd break the route up into many smaller routes, then I could not bother routing the m-way sections and still use the tool "select maps around route" rather than manually select map segments though it really is no big deal to select maps manually.

Try walking before you can run though, install Mapsource and have a play and get use to it before you need it. The secret to good GPSmanship is to know how to control it rather than letting it control you