GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi all. As a motorcycle enthusiast, I've got an itch for a GPS unit that will mount on my handlebars and save me from ever trying to fold a road map again. Not to mention my propensity for getting lost. As a Free Software enthusiast, I'm wary of electronic doo-dads which won't talk to my Debian

Re: GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd hate to buy a spiffy new GPS unit only to find that I've just > paid for a bunch of features that I'll only be able to use if I set > up a Winders box. What exactly do you want to do with the GPS unit? Currently, Linux applications are limited to

Re: GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-08 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 October 2002 05:22 pm, Michael Jinks wrote: > Hi all. > > As a motorcycle enthusiast, I've got an itch for a GPS unit that will > mount on my handlebars and save me from ever trying to fold a road map > again. Not to mention my propensi

Re: GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-08 Thread nate
Michael Jinks said: > Hi all. > > As a motorcycle enthusiast, I've got an itch for a GPS unit that will > mount on my handlebars and save me from ever trying to fold a road map > again. Not to mention my propensity for getting lost. I use a Magellan GPS companion. its a springboard module for a

Re: GPS shopping tips?

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Thayer
FWIW, Garmin mapsource, the program used to upload maps to garmin gps receivers, crashes under wine version 20020904. dt -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all [EMAIL PROTECTED] |