Introducing the Hema HX-1 Navigator

The HX-1 delivers street and 4WD navigation in combination with over 45,000 points of interest (POI) for adventurers, which is packaged in a bright 7-inch multi-touch screen that’s backed by a fast processor, wireless updates and a rear-facing camera for capturing the moment while you travel. In addition to intuitive trip recording tools and other navigation features, the HX-1 gives you the ability to connect with other explorers and share journeys online, making it the ultimate device for planning, navigating and sharing your adventures off the beaten track.

“The Hema Navigator has been the navigation system of choice for four-wheel drivers, tourers, campers and other adventure travellers throughout Australia since the original Hema Navigator in 2008,” said Rob Boegheim, Hema’s managing director. “The HX-1 carries on that mantle while allowing you to do so much more, including capturing your trip with geotagged photos and videos, finding campsites and caravan parks to stay at, recording and sharing your trips, and using tracks created by other explorers to guide your own adventures – all on the one device.”

For navigating around town with ease, the HX-1 comes with Drive mode street navigation. Drive mode delivers a complete turn-by-turn navigation experience using HERE road data and Hema track data, allowing you to quickly and easily create single or multi-point routes to addresses, coordinates or points of interest (POI).

To help you find accommodation, attractions, facilities and more on your travels, Drive mode comes preloaded with over 45,000 points of interest for adventure travellers. These include over 40,000 Hema-verified POI, as well as a targeted directory of free and low-cost sites from Camps Australia Wide and Caravan Parks Australia Wide.

Once your adventure begins, you can switch over to Explore mode to find and navigate places off the beaten track. Explore mode features the award-winning Hema Explorer Map, which combines over 1,200,000 kilometres of 4WD tracks and outback roads throughout Australia to help you find your next adventure. The Hema Explorer Map is backed by the entire Hema database of remote roads and tracks, which has been updated and expanded first-hand by Hema’s Map Patrol expedition field teams for over 20 years, giving you detailed topographic mapping for navigating out-of-the-way places with confidence. For a different perspective, Explore mode also contains alternative map sources including HERE maps, Hema digitised touring maps and state government topographic maps.

To capture adventure highlights as they happen, the HX-1 comes with intuitive trip recording tools for logging your travels in Explore mode: record your trail, drop and name waypoints to mark places of significance, write and attach trip notes to remember your adventure by, and take geotagged photos of what you see along the way with the HX-1’s rear-facing camera.

Once you’ve returned from your trip, you can share it online directly from your HX-1. Log in to your Hema account on the web to view your trips in a 3D slideshow, share them with other explorers on the trip gallery, or send the URL to friends and family to show them where you’ve been. You can even browse other people’s tracks and download them to your HX-1, giving you a ready-made guide for your next adventure.

The Hema HX-1 Navigator is backed by Hema’s expert technical support team, and comes with 3 years of free street map updates, free Explore mode map updates for the life of the unit, while the HX-1 itself comes with a 12-month warranty. The HX-1 is available for $699(RRP) from hundreds of physical and online retailers, or directly from the Hema Maps online shop.

Hema Maps has been prepared to explore since the company was founded in 1983, and has been empowering adventurers through maps, atlases, guides, apps and dedicated navigation devices ever since. To give adventure travellers the best mapping possible, Hema uses expedition field teams that drive Australia’s remote roads and tracks to update and expand their mapping database - a process that has been in practice for over 20 years.

Find out more or purchase the HX-1 Navigator at Hema Maps or one of their retailers by visiting https://www.hemamaps.com/navigate/hx-1