New Garmin Instinct watch

Posted by martyvis on 13 November 2020 in English.

My previous smartwatch, a Fitbit Ionic died after swimming. While I have used it to log walks it really wasn’t suitable for navigation.

I replaced it with a Garmin Instinct. It is very oriented (see what I did there) for navigation on top of the regular fitness and as a wearable device to interact with a smartphone. It turns out that Garmin makes extensive use now of Open Streetmap for planning routes (or courses as they refer to it for the watch) and waypoints (or saved locations). It incented me to help fill in some gaps in my local area after doing a bushwalking and re-exploring areas after the terrible 2019 bushfires.

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