GPS Products

GPS products have always captured my attention - how can they not! I mean for a few hundred bucks (or less) you can get a really useful gadget that uses billions of dollars of technology that orbit the Earth to pinpoint exactly where you are on the globe down to a few meters.

Here's a shot of me hang gliding over SW Ontario with my trusty Garmin MAP76S on my instrument pod (the 76s is just behind my downtube). GPSs have vastly helped me improve my flying performance and helped dearly with retrievals after flying cross-country.

I've been using handheld GPS units since the late 90s and at the time thought they were pretty cool with their limited features, functions and accuracy - but today the market sure has opened up with products with colour screens, auto-GPSs, laptop solutions, geo-caching, fleet tracking, personal locators, cell phones with GPSs, etc. There's a lot of products out there and we hope to help you wade through some of them.

Our GPS product lines right now are just the TomTom auto and motorcycle GPSs, Garmin GPSs and the SPOT Satellite Messenger.

We'll be rapidly adding more products to our store as well as improving our GPS Selecion Matrix that is now in development. We are combining all of our data into this one handy matrix that will allow you to easily narrow down the right GPS for you, whether it be a handheld, Auto or Motorcycle GPS. For now, we have to rather static tables - the AutoGPS table and the Garmin Handheld table.

Also, here is a great product comparison on GPS Magazine's site.

Regards,
Mark Dowsett - President, Vibe Computing