Re: GPS and mapping

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Author: Mike Schwartz
Date:  
To: Main PLUG discussion list
CC: Kevin Brown, Mike L Schwartz
Subject: Re: GPS and mapping
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


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