The other feature that is essential for any device to be used for offroad exploration is the ability to view maps when offline. When you download a track from the internet and load it onto any GPS, you will be able to see the line on the map, but it will be a pain in the ass to follow and hardly any more useful than a paper description and a paper map. Not the best way to return to civilisation.
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No information about elevation, rivers or how to find your way back after taking a couple of turns. As soon as you leave the pavement for a trail you happened to stumble upon you are leaving the map and driving into a flat, green surface. These contain all the roads, interested points etc that you can reach using paved roads and depending on the country, well maintained gravel roads. Most devices will have a standard road map loaded of the country you purchased it in and maybe the rest of the continent. The reason why you can’t use just any GPS device is because of the maps loaded onto the device and the ability to add other map views. It’s a valid question, I also asked myself before I got into offroading. Why can’t any GPS device be used for overlanding and offroading you might wonder, especially because you still have one lying around in the bottom of a drawer.
What makes a GPS suitable for offroading?
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