GPS for beginners

tilted · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 14, 2004 Posts: 4

Hi

Consider me an absolute beginner please.

I'm looking at purchasing and XDA II and have been searching around for the perfect GPS option, but I am confused!

I've heard a lot about the Tom Tom system, I take it the GPS unit is connected via Bluetooth and the maps are located through the SDIO slot, am I right?

I've also looked at the SDIO GPS cards, are these worth looking at? How do you access the maps with one of these cards? This would be my preferred option but I don't really know how it all fits together.

Any help appreciated.

Darren · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 10:54 am Post subject:

Forget the SDIO GPS option, as you have realised you need that slot for map storage.

The two options open to you are a GPS mouse connected to the sync port on the bottom, this requires 12v power so will only work in-car, no good if you plan to go hiking and Bluetooth, by far the most popular solution these days, gives much more adapatability in-car, can be used on foot etc.
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tilted · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 14, 2004 Posts: 4

Thanks for that

So with (for instance) the Tom Tom Nav 3 bluetooth kit do you get the maps on an SDIO card? Do you buy the card separately or does it all come as a bundle?

Thanks Again

Tim Buxton · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 12:05 pm Post subject:

You get the maps on CDs and transfer them to wherever you want to store them on your device. An SD card isn't in the TTN3 box.
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tilted · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 14, 2004 Posts: 4

Cheers

So just to get this straight, I buy the PDA, buy a BT GPS receiver (anything I should look out for here?), buy the Navigation software (any preferences? Does the software expect a certain receiver?) and maps, install the software on the PDA and place the maps either on the device itself or purchase an SD card to store the maps (freeing up the space on the PDA).

Sorry if I'm going over the obvious but I'm not too technically minded.

Tim Buxton · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject:

Yes, you just about have it. Tomtom and Navman, to name but two, offer bundles, whereby you get their BT receiver bundled with their software. Some sellers offer the whole shebang as a bundle; PDA, receiver, software, carmount and srorage card. I can't find any XDA II bundles, but there might be one out there.
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tilted · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 14, 2004 Posts: 4

As long as the bundle comes with a ciggy lighter powered GPS device I'll probably get the software, receiver and storage card as a bundle.

Not interested in the carmount as I would prefer to hide the receiver away beneath the arm rest (which is handily right next to the ciggy lighter).

Thanks for your help, I'm a little wiser now and think I know which way to look.

Chris.

icsys · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject:

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