I get lost... Plain and simple. It's actually pretty horrible how I get lost. Make a long story short. Yesterday I was suposed to go to a Subaru meet... I got directions it was only 14 miles from where I work... and I ended up driving for 2 hours and was around 60 miles away from where I should have been... this would not have been the first time either... lol I am always getting lost.

I plan on getting Earthmate GPS Receiver with the Street Atlas USA 2004. Does anyone have this or could recommend good GPS software. The above software and receiver will work with my laptop... which is cool with me because I can't stand looking at a screen that is only 6-7 inches and having to squint... I'd rather use my lappy's 15" screen, or I could mount a custom 15" flatpanel screen in my car, that is cool with me. The Earthmate uses a receive that hooks into the USB port so it's very simply, I actually opened one at work and was testing it out to see if it was any good. Unfortuntlly though it doesn't really work in building plus I had it installed on a desktop.

Thanks :-)

-Nigel

 

I bought a Garmin e-Trex vista for the following reasons. I wanted something very small that I could throw in a pocket when hiking, walking around a city, and geocaching. The e-Trex vista has like 24 meg of memory which is sufficient for what I use it for. It is also waterproof, which was another requirement for me. I have hooked it up to my laptop and used both Microsoft Mappoint and Garmins Mapsource with good success. The screen on my Vista is small, but sufficient for what I use it for. And again, it is about the size of a mobile phone and easy to transport. It came in really handy when we vacationed in Hawaii and Amsterdam... especially when you want to stumble home from the coffee shop. :banana:

 

If you get one...post some pics and keep us updated!

 

I got the Earthmate GPS for my laptop. It is actually pretty cool! I just need to get a laptop mount for my car... I had my gf holding my laptop in the passenger seat... We were driving around and it showed where I was going..etc I went to a parking lot and just started to go around in circles and it showed that too!

I'll get pics up soon of it, I have to find my cf card reader.


Thanks,

-Nigel

 

The only GPS experience I have is with flying so this may not be street accurate. But Garmin is the best IMO. They update often and its a very user friendly interface.

 

I have TomTom navigator running on my treo 650 with a bluetooth GPS receiver.

Good stuff!!! Voice commands (your choice), and route recalculation on the fly.

-C

 

I got one too, i'm always lost. so i got this one for 355 shipped off this guy

http://www.magellangps.com/en/produc...sp?PRODID=1038

 

I just got a Garmin 2720 GPS... freaking LOVE IT!

Puts my Delorme gps mate for my laptop to shame without a doubt!

Best money I have spent that I actually see that is completly worth it!

Now I don't have to worry if I will ever get lost going ANYWHERE... Put in the address and bam, tells me estimated arrival time..

My fav feature is the "max speed" of the unit... For some reason I am always trying to beat my previous speed...lol I gotta beat 120 for my next trip :-)

-Nigel

 

Thomas Guide.

 

Or if your even cheaper a simple find on maps.google.com would do the trick.

If your linux fans you can utilize your gps unit on a nice free program called gpsdrive.