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 <
mike.l.schwartz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/14/07, Kevin Brown <kevin_brown@qwest.net> wrote:
> | (( Nathan Aubrey <nathan@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.
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>
> 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
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