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anygreg
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 Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:22 pm Post subject: GPS World Map Advice |
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Hello to all on Pocket GPS, this is my first post on here, so go easy :D
I have an Ipaq 2210 with Fortuna Clip-on GPS and am about to go traveling for 6 months or so. I have managed to build up some GPS navigation software for the various places i am visiting, but am having great difficulty in obtaining some software which will give me the equivalent to the Garmin world base map. Does anybody out there know of any world map GPS software that will run on the Ipaq 2210 using PPC 2003. The detail doesn’t have to be street level or anything like that, major routes, place names etc.... Any advice would be much appreciated
Regards Andy |
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matty2767
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| the problem you are going to have is that the world is split in two. the usa and europe. you can probably find the software you want for each but not both at the same time. |
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Skippy
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: GPS World Map Advice |
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| anygreg wrote: | | having great difficulty in obtaining some software which will give me the equivalent to the Garmin world base map. |
Welcome 
Have you looked at Fugawi or OziExplorer? Fugawi sell a world map which might do the trick. They don'tt do autorouting and they are raster maps so they will take up a fair amount of memory though. 
http://www.fugawi.com/docs/maptopoframe.html
Also check out the reviews of mapping programs at: http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/menu_gpstopo.php some of these allow you to scan and calibrate paper maps.
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anygreg
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Cheers guys for the response, the Fugawi looks like it will do the trick perfectly, question is is how big the map/s will be. Anybody had any experience with this software company? Will it conflict with the TomTom software i am using etc?
Thanks again for all your input.
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Andy |
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Skippy
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| anygreg wrote: | | question is is how big the map/s will be. |
How long is a piece of string? You can't really answer that! 8O
Best thing to do is try getting some maps of the areas you want at the scale you want and check the sizes. Try and reduce the scanned map to 16 colours and compare JPEG and GIF compression to see which gives the smallest map size vs quality trade off.
You can get maps from http://www.mapblast.com/ |
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