Quick Question - latitude/longitude entry using Co-Pilot sm

seancraig · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 10

Can you enter a lat/long using Co-Pilot smartphone and route to it whilst walking?

Reason is I'd like to have a go at Geocaching and want to know if Co-Pilot smartphone will do as a starting point.

TIA

fozzie63 · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject:

I can't see a way of entering a location by lat/long on the phone. However, you can by using the desktop app and creating a new POI with the lat/long coordinates.

seancraig · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 10

thanks for the reply fozzie Smile

still can't decide what to buy <sigh>
more pondering required I think

Skippy · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject:

I can't figure out a way to do it on my one, I don't think it can be done.

CoPilot is a buggy but pretty reasonable system for Street Navigation, but that is pretty much all it does. If you want something primarily for Geocaching, then don't get CoPilot!

Mapopolis (you can download it and try it for free) allows you to add a waypoint using Menu->Find->Lattitude/Longtitude but I don't know if it does "Off Road" routing. Confused

What you really want is something like Fugawi or Memory map or some program where you can scan in your own map and use that for off road routing. There are plenty of these for the PPC but I don't know if they have reached the Smartphone yet.
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Dave · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:26 am Post subject:

At the moment it's not possible. There will be a new release soon (hopefully) that will allow you to pinpoint a location on the map, but I don't believe any lat/long feature, but I'll see if I can persuade ALK to put this in.

seancraig · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 10

Thanks dave :D

I'm reasonably settled on using copilot smartphone for the car but I think i'm going to have to get either a handheld gpsr (geko 201,Garmin GPSMAP 60CS, etc etc) or an ipaq 2210 with gpstuner and gpxsonar for geocaching.

But im still fumbling around a bit so who knows...

Dave · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:39 am Post subject:

If you've got some money to still burn then I'd highly recommend a GPSMap 60CS or a GPSMap76CS. These are both colour and the S denotes 'S'ensor so you have a barometric altimeter and an electronic compass (the compass isn't a GPS compass that requires you to be moving).

If you can't afford these then plump for a regular old eTrex or Geko if you want something really small.

Skippy · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:51 pm Post subject:

fozzie63 · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

I use the Geko 301 for Geocaching; great little device with altimeter and electronic compass Smile

seancraig · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 10

I have ordered the copilot smartphone/Fortuna Clipon/Vent mount bundle for the car.

Skippy thanks for the info about the car kits though :D

As for the geocaching i'm being drawn towards the Garmin 60cs but the geko 201/301 does seem to to do most of the same things for a lot less cash.

I understand that the 60cs has a "geocaching mode" anyone know if its useful?

seancraig · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 10

Forgot to thank fozzie Smile

One more thing is that does the performance of the geko 201/301 differ that much from the 60cs whilst caching given that I won't need to use the 60cs for car navigation.

Thanks for all your advice.

Much appreciated

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