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| Thread ID: 79492 | 2007-05-21 22:19:00 | Laptop - GPS | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 551868 | 2007-05-22 07:42:00 | You could get yourself an amateur radio licence and use APRS. ;) That works pretty well. Most "free" software will be newer than "10 years". One problem can be obtaining the maps, unless you want to pay for them. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 551869 | 2007-05-22 21:06:00 | I use a DSE GPS plugged into my laptop USB and it works great. Use it with TUMONZ and can do live tracking with it so you can track where you have been or need to go. | Big John (551) | ||
| 551870 | 2007-05-22 22:37:00 | Thanks John, that's great news and just what I wanted to hear. :thumbs: | B.M. (505) | ||
| 551871 | 2007-05-24 11:22:00 | I used TUMONZ for a while but switched to "trackmaker" so I could scan and load my own maps, also supports digital maps from many other sources. Best of all trackmaker is free, and doesn't limit you to NZ :-) I'm still using a 8 year old Garmin unit to do real time tracking in a vehicle or a boat. " |
hkeyzer (9827) | ||
| 551872 | 2007-05-24 22:29:00 | The pucks works fine AFAIK, just need to seek your own softwares and maps which are available online or the commercial versions. Maybe get a SIRF III chipset as they are better when its cloudy or under trees and stuff. Some higher ended digital SLR cameras can use this plugged on so they can record all the co-ordinates when they take a photo. One can get Garmin et al .. ones they are nice if you need the LCD so its nice when you may be without the laptop such as hiking and stuff some have co-ords or wavepoints only and some have full on color maps as well. They do cost more though. |
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