( I also believe you can’t enter a LAT & LONG to navigate to, but that my be hearsay)Īs we had been happy with our old TomTom up to the point it went on strike, we looked at the TomTom Go Live Camping & Caravan unit. Specification wise it ticked all the boxes. As we havent had a PC in the house for over 7 years, I wasn’t going to get a PC just to update a GPS, nor did I want to install a Microsoft emulator on any of the Mac’s and buy a copy of Windows. One, you can’t load your own POI’s (Point Of Interest) and second, the software didn’t run natively on an Apple Mac. We did consider the Snooper unit and looked closely at it at the Manchester Caravan Show, but it had two major drawbacks for me. But looking for a GPS for caravanning, Garmin didn’t a offer a product that fitted the my idea of what I wanted. That set us on the path of looking for a new GPS.īeing a pilot, I had ‘grown up’ so to speak with Garmin over nearly 20 years and trusted Garmin products to navigate me round the world and drop me on a runway centreline from 1200 nautical miles away… including crossing the Atlantic a few times. We had been using a TomTom Go 960 for five or six years and hadn’t really any problems with it until we went to France, where in it decided to become French and in the best Gallic tradition went on strike with no notice ( here’s the story). ![]() After you have read this, please read UPDATE - Review of the TomTom GO LIVE Camper and Caravan Sat Nav
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