First use it on the hill then stick in your car and it's a Sat Nav and camera warning device.
New from Memory Map - it was officially launched at the OS
Outdoors Show - is a new off-road / on-road personal navigation
device, The Road Angel Adventurer 7000.
The idea is that while you're driving, the unit is a state of the
art sat-nav and safety camera warning system, then, once you get to
your destination, you can simply take it out of the car and use it to
navigate on the hill using Memory Map software and the built-in GPS
receiver.
That means you get full OS mapping on the 3.5" full colour touch
screen and a little red marker showing your exact position. The
device comes pre-loaded with Ordnance Survey Landranger 1:50,000
scale maps of Britain's national parks and includes some 150 walking
routes to get you started.
You can add additional mapping from the Memory Map range including
OS 1:50,000 Landranger or 1:25,000 Explorer™, CAA civil aviation
charts and coastal and offshore marine charts as well as IGN maps of
France.
That's all very neat, particularly if you happen to be in the
market for a sat-nav and a personal navigation device at the same
time.
OM's route and navigation guru, Dave Mycroft - who has one on test
right now - says that the unit is basically a Road Angel Navigator
6000 which has been adapted with rubber seals over its ports to make
it water resistant. We'd expect it to cope with normal wet weather
use, but we wouldn't choose to throw it in a stream, if that makes
sense.
The lithium ion battery, which charges while you're driving, has
an eight-hour continuous use life which can be increased by using
stand-by mode. Mac users are not catered for unfortunately.
The Road Angel Adventurer 7000 is priced at £350 and
is available direct from the Memory Map website at www.memory-map.co.uk
where you can also find more technical details.
For information on the in-car side of things, check out the Road
Angel web site at www.roadangel.co.uk.
Incidentally, it's probably worth pointing out that the Road Angel
speed camera warning facility uses a regularly updated database of
camera locations and is completely legal.
