Direct entry of North/West coordinates?

Hi,
Is there a GPS system available whereby you can directly type in
(or, even better, send electronically by RS232,USB, etc) some given
North/West coordinates, and have that location displayed on the
map of the GPS system? Do any GPS's have that feature?

Thanks,
John

TomTom has a system.
Tap screen.
Tap, "Navigate to".
Tap the scroll arrow.
Tap, "Latitude longitude"
and enter your co-ordinates.

You get the choice of North/south and East/West.
--

Robert Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).

JohnOS wrote:

Virtually all handheld gps receivers will do that and so will most
modern automotive types. You are basically describing what is a
waypoint. Those get called a number of different names in some newer
models like favorites, destinations, etc.

And the RS-232 capability is fading some as USB comes more into use, but
it is still pretty widely available.

If you want to tell us more about where and how you want to use it we
can probably recommend some specific makes and models.

Jack

Jack Erbes wrote:

Hi,
First, thanks for the replys. Much appreciated.
The GPS model I have is a recently purchased Evesham Nav-Cam 6400, with
AA Navigator 2007 maps. This is a small hand-held unit (although it
came with car window mounting brackets).

I'm trying to enter map co-ordinates directly into this unit (as part
of a treasure-hunt adventure game - clues will be given in the form of
map co-ordinates). These co-ordinates could possibly be half way up
a mountain or someplace accessable only on foot.

Unless I've missed it in the menus, there doesn't appear to be any way
to do this on this system. It does have a favourites menu, but nothing
where I can type in co-ordinates. And the manual isn't particularly
informative. So I'm looking for an alternative system.

That TomTom sounds interesting - but which model has this feature?

Thanks,
John

JohnOS wrote:
John, I'm not familiar with the Tom-Toms but I can tell you that the Garmin
Nuvi models, such as the 350, are small, portable, battery operated, can be
set to "Pedestrian" use, and definitely allow the entry of coordinates which
it will then map and give you directions to.