after a little research: both tomtom and garmin devices have a "pedestrian" mode. tomtom is more mac-friendly tomtom devices (one and one xl) have poor battery life, around 2h. not good when you're walking around since neither tomtom nor garmin provide useable maps of japan (where i will be driving in august) i will be postponing the acquisition of a gps device until my next big road trip. thanks to all who helped, alexandre :: 17" 2.33ghz ic2d macbook pro / 2.0gb / 160gb / X.4.10 :: :: 24" 2.33ghz ic2d imac / 2.0gb / 250gb / X.4.10 ::