Car navigation unit

Hi all,
Does anyone in Australia have a car navigation GPS with the following
features.
1. Reasonable mapping of country roads
2. Give spoken warnings when exceeding speed limits.
3. Is capable of accepting latitude and longitude
co-ordinates
4. If above co-ordinates are off road will guide to the
nearest point on a road.
If so, what brand and model is it, and are you happy with its performance.
Thanks,
Dan

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I can say for #4, that at least everywhere I've been doing off-road
(racing) this is not practical. The nearest spot is usually not the
best or even feasible location to get to the off-road point unless the
GPS has some knowledge of things that are probably not even on the map
such as swamps, streams, or cracks in the desert.

Hi Dan,

I use a Mio C520 "hacked" to do both turn by turn navigation in town and on
the major roads and then use OziExplorerCE for the off road/outback stuff.
The only unit that really comes close would be the Hema Navigator at around
AUD$1,000.

The C520 in standard form does the first three and with some work by you to
set up the route then OziExplorerCE will do the last one.

Cheers.

Pete

Hi Pete,
Thanks for the input. I'll have a look at the C520. The Hema is a bit costly
for me. My problem with the co-ordinates stems from the Tom Tom One that I
have been using. It will accept co-ordinates, but if they are for only a
short distance off the road, I get a "no usable roads" message and it will
do nothing. In many cases my requirements - geocaching - takes me only a
hundred metres or so off the road, and I can handle that except in extreme
cases. If such is the case the cacher hiding the cache gives the
co-ordinates of a parking place.
Thanks again,
Dan

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I have an ASUS R300, which runs ASUS Go. Now updates are available
from Naviextras.com and this GPS is also cracked to use the MIO hack,
so it too will run OziExplorer, or other software that works with CE.
Even without maps I track where I am and record the track, convert to
the microSD card, and review in RouteConverter using Goggle Earth
maps, etc. This GPS can be set to pedestrian mode, where you do NOT
need to be on the roads, and I use it that way when cruising, for
example when we sailed through the Panama Canal. So there are other
units you can consider as well. As the R300 uses a replaceable Litium
Ion Battery from ASUS that is a drop in battery, this unit never needs
to be taken apart to replace the battery either. That should be
another choice for you. Comes with a car mount in the form of a
suction cup, and a bicycle mount is also available. I also use a wall
socket to cigarette lighter socket adapter with the power cable they
supply as well as a USB cable to connect to the computer, so gets lots
of uses out of the unit.

FWIW
RsH