Sat Nav question

[Steve-L]

I am thinking of buying a portable sat nav for the car and have read various reviews but none of them answer my question.

I was in the Cotswold at the weekend with the wife and we decided just to have a drive with no specific destination in mind.
What would of been nice is a system that could work on a pointer, in other words I pull over next to a field on a small "B" road in the middle of nowhere, look at the map display and simply use a pointer to point to another location on the map which is again just a point on a "B" road in the middle of nowhere.

Do any portable systems have this feature (I understand scale/map size is an issue but I am only talking about points a few miles apart).

Cheers

 

[m0rk]

I've done it with TomTom where I knew where I wanted to go, but the postcode was 'huge' (italian countryside)

 

[xJib]

Yep Tomtom’s can do that. You can browse a map and then select a point that you want to navigate to.

Also I see the new Tomtom One is now out and looks really good value.

 

[jagzz88]

Loads on the market

 

[Slimy]

Even my cheapy Aldi special lets you do that. The only thing it won't give you decent roads, it will give you the most efficient point to point route. So if there is a motorway nearby it will get you there if it's remotely better. You can tell it to not use motorways, but it'll then give you A roads and you'll still miss out on the tiny B roads that give the best drive.

Personally I would simply drive in some vague direction and then only use the sat nav to get home. Then it doesn't matter where you are or even whether you know where you are.