Mike, they are talking about using GPS to do live updates on the map. the directions can change in =real time if you miss a turn or find a highway under construction. That is what is different. On 3/15/07, Mike Schwartz wrote: > > On 3/14/07, Kevin Brown wrote: > | (( Nathan Aubrey 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@acm.org > Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss