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Is there any kind of monthly GPS service fee?
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Swatt Six-Four,
There is no monthy service fee. GPS is free to the whole world.
It is even free for the new version of GPS which is generally accurate up to a 10 ft radius of where you are. You can get better accuracy than 10 ft, but it's generally around there.
There rino system with it's team location system seem's extremely promising.
I have never used it and I'm pretty interested also.
From what Pivot said, it seems really easy to use.
GPS is generally easy to use though. Turn it on, it takes time to find out where you are (about 1 min for me).
You rarely need to press anything if you don't need to mark down locations or routes (GPS's can track the route you took, like a path or how you got to where you are).
I hope that helps you for now until someone can give you a review of a Rino. I don't have one...both my GPS's are very old.
One thing to note, if you get an outdoor dedicated GPS, it won't work well in cities where there are building's in the way. However, my GPS set up for city driving with street directions and everything, works great in both enviornments. But it doesn't come with an outdoor map, you will need to get that separately. It seems to be able to hold signal better in wooded areas as those are similar to buildings, but accuracy goes crazy (maybe up to a 50 ft radius) and sometimes I totally lose reception. Then you have to wait to get signal and all that all over again.
Outdoor maps differ in that they show topological charts, and has items like streams, rivers, etc... City maps show stores, streets, housing, addresses, landmarks, etc...