Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:12:43 -0700
Reply-To: Tom Sinclair <neeemo@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Tom Sinclair <neeemo@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: GPS equipment?
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Are the maps as detailed as the Delorme road atlases
you buy for each state?
Tom
--- Michael Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:
> I picked up the Delorme Earthmate/Street Atlas
> package (
> http://delorme.com/earthmatelt20/default.asp ) and
> used it on a recent
> trial trip. There is no way I'd want to be peering
> at a laptop screen,
> sometimes completely washed out by sunlight, while
> driving. I plugged an
> FM transmitter (like http://tinyurl.com/apu4j ) into
> the laptop's
> headphone jack, set it to an unused frequency, and
> let Microsoft Mary (I
> call her the "Iron Lady") speak to me from the car's
> radio. (I'd have
> preferred the voice of "Mother," the ship's computer
> from _Alien_, but
> you get who you get. )
>
> Aside from picking a route that I'd never have taken
> due to traffic,
> Delorme did a fine job of guiding me home. If you
> know of roads better
> not taken, then you can manually make changes to the
> route the software
> selects. Or just ignore the directions and watch the
> software work out a
> new way to get to where you want to go.
>
> I am in the U.S., and it appears that the maps are
> detailed enough for
> road trips here.
>
> --
>
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 83.5 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical
> Banana")
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On 6/1/2005 1:40 PM Robert Rountree wrote:
>
> > I'm looking to pull the trigger on a GPS for my
> laptop... I'm down to 2
> > choices.
> > the Delorme or the Microsoft Streets... I'm in
> Canada and I'm being
> > told by
> > an ebay-dealer that the Microsoft streets covers
> CDN best... I have a new
> > HDwidescreen laptop with decent sound.. Delorme
> speaks... MS doesn't
> > speak... is that really a much used feature?...
> which feature do you use
> > most? I would use it in the van, in a boat, and
> maybe even try it in a
> > small
> > plane.. real planes use different software for
> fields and approaches, but
> > you could still follow roads, and get a corrected
> actual ground speed....
> > who has used one or the other in their CDN
> travels?
> >
> > RR
> >
> > Think I'll do BusFusion
> > http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm
> >
> > ... could they use a really bad, mandolin/ukulele
> player?
> >
>
http://www.TomSinclair.com
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