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Topic: A plug in Practical Wireless Magazine |
dastardly
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 8:06 pm Subject: A plug in Practical Wireless Magazine |
I see that this month's (October) copy of Practical Wireless contains a short article on GPS/TomTom, and a recommendation for people new to GPS to visit our very own PocketGpsWorld. You can find it i ... |
Topic: Tungsten T3 or iPAQ 4150? |
dastardly
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:29 pm Subject: Tungsten T3 or iPAQ 4150? |
Thanks dastardly. I think that pretty much explains it then! Fairly conclusive that you lashed out the cash twice ...
Ah, well in a piece of slick diplomacy I convinced Mrs dastardly that she cou ... |
Topic: Tungsten T3 or iPAQ 4150? |
dastardly
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:31 am Subject: Re: Tungsten T3 or iPAQ 4150? |
Any comments from anyone who's been able to play with and compare the different systems?Thanks,
I originally bought the T3/TT3 combination, but very quickly changed it for a 2210.
The T3 is ni ... |
Topic: UK Pubs & Takeaways |
dastardly
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Forum: Points Of Interest (POIs) Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:07 pm Subject: UK Pubs & Takeaways |
Just a thought... Maybe if enough people were interested in having this type of POI file, they could each put some time in and arrange to each do an area on the map and then pool all the res ... |
Topic: Southern Trains GPS Problems |
dastardly
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:54 pm Subject: Southern Trains GPS Problems |
Personally I wouldn't have thought GPS would be a good technology for this. I haven't heard of the story or read it, but sensors on the wheels or undercarriage of the carriages would be a much bett ... |
Topic: Southern Trains GPS Problems |
dastardly
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:22 pm Subject: Southern Trains GPS Problems |
I guess it's slightly on topic, but Southern Railway is in the news with its new trains.
AIUI, they use GPS to tell the onboard computer which station they're standing at, so that when they run lon ... |
Topic: HaiCom 303 GPS Newbie Buyers Summary |
dastardly
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:05 pm Subject: Re: HaiCom 303 GPS Newbie Buyers Summary |
My requirement for the PDA GPS is car navigation in and out of cities, walking/cycling country side and cities.
(like everyone else !!)
I believe the Haicom 303 range to be the most popular ... |
Topic: UKPostcode Download/Windows Explorer/Headphone Socket |
dastardly
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:36 pm Subject: Re: UKPostcode Download/Windows Explorer/Headphone Socket |
2 What sort of windows system am I using 2002 or 2003, not to sure which one to click on for the data base download.
3 I have a 128sd card installed, is this enough to hold the download for the p ... |
Topic: UKPostcode Download/Windows Explorer/Headphone Socket |
dastardly
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 4:21 pm Subject: UKPostcode Download/Windows Explorer/Headphone Socket |
as for creating folder, i take you you mean creating the ukpostcode folder? you can do this from file explorer withing your ppc or in windows. it works the same either way.
Yea, one way is to open ... |
Topic: Stop playing warning sound when past speed camera? |
dastardly
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Forum: Other Software Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 9:05 pm Subject: Stop playing warning sound when past speed camera? |
try speeding up to 99 miles an hour, all the wav files then stop
Love it yeah - until the car behind you starts playing that annoying blee-blaa wav sound 8O |
Topic: Fugawi - Importing extra icons |
dastardly
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Forum: Other Software Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:01 pm Subject: Re: Fugawi - Importing extra icons |
I'm very please to say I can now use my own custom icons which was the aim of my initial question.
Yes, thanks for sorting that out. I've got several thousand waypoints (!!) on Fugawi now, a ... |
Topic: 'Isolated' spliter cables |
dastardly
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 8:06 pm Subject: Re: 'Isolated' spliter cables |
For now, I am simply going to feed the GPS audio into the music input and take a (very small) risk that I may miss a GPS instruction if I am currently receiving a telephone call.
Hi glennk. The qui ... |
Topic: POIedit - Why Longitude before Lattitude ? |
dastardly
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Forum: Points Of Interest (POIs) Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:52 am Subject: POIedit - Why Longitude before Lattitude ? |
What is the format of your basic data, before you start swapping things around?
I exported the coordinates from Fugawi as a .txt file, and then changed the extension to .asc
However, I've ... |
Topic: POIedit - Why Longitude before Lattitude ? |
dastardly
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Forum: Points Of Interest (POIs) Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:26 am Subject: POIedit - Why Longitude before Lattitude ? |
If you create a text file (.ASC) with entries in the following format
NGR, "Description"
then you can use my program POIConverter to create a TomTom Navigator overlay.
OK thanks. I'll ... |
Topic: POIedit - Why Longitude before Lattitude ? |
dastardly
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Forum: Points Of Interest (POIs) Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 7:00 pm Subject: POIedit - Why Longitude before Lattitude ? |
Hi folks, maybe I'm coming at this from the wrong angle but things aren't quite as as easy as I hoped they'd be....
1. I'm making several POI files by taking NGRs (converting them on 'Loc ... |
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