GPS and mapping

[Mike Schwartz]

OK, thanks, but it was also (according to "Kevin Brown")
<kevin_brown at qwest.net>, that
<< "Unlike Yahoo or Google, you don't need to have Net access to get the
information... " >>
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com

On 3/16/07, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> 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 <mike.l.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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...
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> > Mike Schwartz
> > Glendale  AZ
> > schwartz at acm.org
> > Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com
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