Car GPS system?

[Stana Claus]

Ever since my son turned 16 and got his driver's license and a job, he's not been able to go fishing with me nearly as often. As a result, I've lost my primary navigator. Trying to drive and follow the DeLorme atlas to find the turnoff for a new stream I'm looking for is a real PITA, not to mention hazardous for those around me. Do any of you folks know of a car GPS system that will let you put in your destination or a POI using latitude & longitude coordinates? I have an older model Magellan Roadmate 1412 car GPS, but it wants either a street address, intersection, or something from the built-in POI database as a destination, and that's just not that helpful.

I would like to be able to use Google Earth or various and sundry maps to find the coordinates for a given trailhead or stream crossing, plug that into my car GPS and let it talk me through getting there. Does such a thing exist? Anybody have one?

[narcodog]

Look at the new Tom Tom's I think you can enter a Lat Long to get where you want to go.

[Stonefly]

I have a basic Garmin unit, and can input coordinates just fine. The first time I tried it, I just clicked the cursor on the map where I thought my target location would be, wrote down the lat/long and input thm in the Garmin, and the thing navigated me perfectly.

steve

[Stana Claus]

Which Garmin unit are you using, Stonefly? That sounds like just what I'm looking for. Thanks.

[Rockyraccoon]

All the Garmin car models should allow you to enter lat and long. And they can be hooked up to your computer to insert your favorite waypoints to them.

[Stana Claus]

OK, so I went to Garmin's website and pulled up the user manuals for several different models and found that they pretty much all do indeed have this functionality. I wonder why none of the salesclerks in any of the retail establishments that I have visited and asked about this knew that? Oh wait, I do know why. Salespeople in the big box electronics stores don't know jack diddly squat about what they're selling. Oh, well. Guess I should have been using Garmin products all along. Thanks, guys, for steering me in that direction.