A quick FYI on a half-price alternative to AnywhereMap
I've been using a program called Flight-Master on a Palm T5 with a Bluetooth GPS for a little over a year and I
love it. The software is about $90, you can get a Palm T3 for less than $150 on eBay (my job had already provided me the T5 which is the same unit with a larger screen), and a bluetooth GPS for about $100. (BTW, FM works on the Palm Treo's as well, in case you happen to have one of those already.)
What that $350-odd dollars bought me is a very high resolution, color, moving map GPS that shows airspace, navaids, airports, flight path, and even obstacles. Especially now that I'm flying in the ADIZ [shudder], I feel like this is pretty much the best $350 I could have spent.
The Flight-Master website is at
http://www.flight-master.com, and it uses a donation-ware flight-planner available at
http://lauriedavis9.tripod.com/copilot/.
One poster above mentioned readability, and that's where I'd have to agree any of the PDA-based systems are really at a big disadvantage compared to the Garmins. I've flown in Dan C.'s RV-7 with the Garmin 396, and there simply ain't no comparison - if you're willing and able to spend four digits on a handheld GPS, you can't go wrong with any of the Garmins. I would add, though, IMO it's not that my T5 isn't readable, it's just that the Garmin screen is many, MANY times brighter and therefore more easily readable. To each his or her own.
P.S. In case anyone's wondering, I have no connection or interest (financial or otherwise) in Flight-Master, Co-Pilot, Palm PDA's, or bluetooth GPS manufacturers other than being a VERY satisfied customer. Just offering food for thought.