OK, thanks, but it was also (according to "Kevin Brown") , that << "Unlike Yahoo or Google, you don't need to have Net access to get the information... " >> -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwartz@acm.org Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com On 3/16/07, Dazed_75 wrote: > > 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 mailing list - [...]