GPS and mapping

[Mike Schwartz]

On 3/14/07, Kevin Brown <kevin_brown at qwest.net> wrote:
 |  (( Nathan Aubrey <nathan at paysonlinux.org> had written))

> > Someone was telling me about Microsoft Streets & Trips and it comes with
> a
> > cheap GPS deal. Obviously Streets & Trips won't run in Linux, but it got
> me
> > wondering. Does anyone use any kind of GPS software in Linux with a GPS
> > device? What do you use?
>
> GPSDrive and Roadmap have come a ways since I first installed them.
> Roadmap takes advantage of the of the TIGER data provided free from the
> US Census Bureau.  Both GPSDrive and Roadmap also have a means of
> importing data from http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page.
> Neither of them have full navigation support (e.g. enter start and end
> points and they show you how to get there), but both are working on it
> as a major must-have goal.
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list -[...]


Am I missing something here?  How is
> enter start and end
> points and they show you how to get there
any different from what "Yahoo Maps"
(and, I presume, Mapquest, and others)
have been offering for years?
Are you perhaps talking about being able to
> enter start and end
> points [...]
by specifying the Lat/Lon, instead of the address?
I guess that would be different...
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com
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