Date:         Thu, 26 Mar 1998 11:21:20 -0500
Reply-To:     Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
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From:         Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
Subject:      GPS/Laptop Setup
Comments: To: Mark McCulley <raven@halcyon.com>, vanagon@vanagon.com
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At 08:13 AM 3/26/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Derek, I'm really curious about the Delorme Tripmate. Does the GPS receiver
>tie into the computer?

yes. it displays on the laptop screen and I am told it now displays onto
some kind of palm pilot type portable too.

>How do you find it to be useful?

off road driving and exploring; it is too much of a pain to set up for
casual driving around town, but it is nevertheless fun to have connected

little green arrows plunk down on the map showing where you are driving and
in what direction

>Do you find the
>DeLorme CDROM mapping info to be accurate?

quite though not quite up to the level of detail you get on a real topo

>I use their Gazetter publications
>and find that I can't always count on them when I get down to the one-lane
>dirt trail/roads.

right. same with the CD-Roms, which seem to have slightly less information
than the som,e of their gazetters, though not much less

>-Mark McCulley
>
>
>At 10:29 AM 3/26/98 -0500, Derek Drew wrote:
>>Yes, I use the Delorme Tripemate on a Dell Pentium 233 XGA and it is
>>fantastic. I think you get the whole thing (GPS receiver and detailed
>>mapping CD-ROM, including many topo trails) from Delorme www.delorme.com
>>for about $150. Highly recommended. But I don't know if the Delorme atlas
>>includes Canada! If not, then look elsewhere as the Tripmate is not very
>>adaptable to use with non-Delorme mapping software.
>>
>

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