Heck yea.. The Garmin Venture doesn't have a road database (just Points of Interest) So the route feature of GPSApp is awesome.. The biggest benefit of the empeg has to be when driiving at night. Since the Venture is a handheld GPS, it runs off batteries which the backlight feature would run down. You can buy a serial/charger cable, but it's like $50 or something. Besides, looking at the screen while driving has to be a hazzard.. I'm sure that a Car oriented GPS would be just as good, but I'd like to be able to use the GPS even when I'm not in my car..