Record a trip with TomTom5

nfh · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:59 am Post subject: Record a trip with TomTom5

Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to record a trip (or track?) with TomTom 5. I would like to keep a whole trip so that I can analyse every road and every place I passed by.

Best regards
Norberto

lbendlin · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject:

no, this is not possible with TiomTom. Use other programs for that.
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nfh · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:13 pm Post subject:

Could you recommend a good software for that and that works on a PPC?

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:18 am Post subject:

Mapopolis can do that - and much more. www.mapopolis.com
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AllyCat · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:11 am Post subject:

Hi Norberto,

If you want to log the track whilst TomTom is running, then gpsgate may be the best option (although I believe one of the POI warning programs also has a logging capability).

http://franson.com/gpsgate/

The full version of gpsgate has a logging facility, or you can use the cheaper "Express" version with another application such as Memory Map or Fugawi, etc. if you want high quality mapping in its own right (depending which country you live in).

Cheers, Alan.
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nfh · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject:

What I'm after is a way to record a trip and see it on the map later. As far as I understand the GPSGate application allows to run several GPS applications, right?

AllyCat · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Yes, the Express version of gpsgate allows you to run two applications at the same time on the PPC, and a license costs about $12.50 after the free trial expires. The full version can run more, and has extra features such as recording a track log (I think in NMEA format).

I doubt if it's possible to "play back" a log into TomTom, so you probably will have to use another map system. You haven't said where you're located, but if it's the UK then you could try the following for a free trial:

Download the trial of Memory Map (it might need to be the earlier 2004 version) and the "Route map" (I think 1:1.3M, not very detailed) of the UK from the walking world website.

http://www.walkingworld.com/home/index.asp?id=1&nid=174

Get a "demo" license from MM, install on PPC and record a (long) track whilst driving. You should then be able to import and display the track in MM on PC or PPC. If/when you buy MM, you'll get a 1:250,000 "routefinder" map (about 100 Mbytes) of the whole UK, as well as the 1:50,000 OS map of the area you purchase.

The OS mapping is quite different to car navigation maps (e.g. no street names). If you want to see your route on a TeleAtlas map, you may have to get another navigation package (that can record a tracklog) and run that instead, or as well as, TomTom!

Cheers, Alan.
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nfh · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much for your anwsers.

Just FYI, I'm from Portugal Smile

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lbendlin · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject:

barryd · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:02 pm Post subject:

Just to confirm that GPSGate (the licensed version) lets you simultaneously record a log of the GPS data and feed it to one or more applications.

To play back a log you just select it in GPSGate and hit play. Run your applications as normal (no need to adjust anything) and they behave just the same as if it were a live GPS feed. You can adjust playback speed and direction, and skip forwards and backwards through the log file, in GPSGate.
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nfh · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much for the great insight! I'll make sure to check out this application.

nfh · Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject:

I'm bringing this topic back again in order to know if anyone of you know an application similar to GPSGate but that works on a Symbian platform instead of the PPC (I need to run two GPS applications on a Nokia 6630, which is based on the S60 platform).

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