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Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:26pm

A friend of mine can get lost walking across the street, let alone walking six blocks. Can someone recommend a Garmin handheld that will allow here to mark her parked location and the navigate her way back to her car by foot?

Thanks!

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Wed, 03/10/2010 - 1:04am

Handheld

I have a Magellan Explorist 600 handheld that I use to find my truck at the airport. When I bought it I was still doing a lot of hiking. However I would not recommend it. Sometimes I have to turn it off & on to acquire the satellites when coming out of a store.

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Wed, 03/10/2010 - 10:06am

eTrex

lgldsr73 wrote:

A friend of mine can get lost walking across the street, let alone walking six blocks. Can someone recommend a Garmin handheld that will allow here to mark her parked location and the navigate her way back to her car by foot?

Thanks!

I'll suggest a Garmin eTrex HCx even though it'll also need a micro SD card and a detailed map, either a free map or a purchased one. Free topo maps which include city streets can be found for many areas. Or Garmin's Topo USA would work, too.

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 10:38am

Nuvi 750

My Nuvi 750 has this feature to find your car in the parking lot. I love my Nuvi 750. It is easy for me to use.

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)
Thu, 03/11/2010 - 2:34am

Any nuvi should be usable

Any nuvi should be usable for finding a car in a parking lot, if you read what our own Gary Hayman wrote:

http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/index.html#car5...

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