Hi folks, I would like to know if anyone has had experience the the Garmin Bobcat program for Macs? The Beta release is available and it looks like what I'm looking for but I also know the developer's statements sometimes don't tell the whole story and would appreciate hearing from an actual user. Thanks!

Broke down and bought a new unit to replace my old, trusted, GPS III. Now, is there an easy way to move all the waypoints from a GPS III to A Nuvi 760? I've looked at Bobcat and can't see an import function that will grab the old waypoint file from mapsource and push it out to the Nuvi. Really don't want to enter them by hand. :)

Another technique is to idle less. According to reports a vehicle that idles for 15 minutes uses half a gallon of gasoline. http://gadgetupdates.googlepages.com/gps_fleet_tracking_saves_gas

Hi, Could someone please provide gps45.pdf as a replacement for my lost manual. TYIA Gerry

Is there a newsgroup or forum devoted to the discussion of aviation GPS receivers? Roy Lewallen

Hello all, I am new in the GPS subject. I've been reading a lot but I still have a bunch of silly questions. Here is one that hopefully somebody will be able to answers: I know the first step in a software GPS receiver is the signal acquisition. Does this process happens only once? If I acquired the signal and handed the information down to the tracking process,when do I need to try to acquire...

My brother the civil engineer asked me (the supposed family GPS expert) about the following scenario (to help in developing initial site plans without immediately having to go to expensive centimeter- accurate surveying GPSs and/or bringing in and paying real surveyors, which would come later on in the process): Take a pair of cheap identical datalogging GPSs. Park one at a reference point and...

Features of LG x110 laptop... http://gadgetupdates.googlepages.com/portable_gps_lg

Where can be downloaded to the GPS dynamic data, such as the RENIX observation data about car or on-board with GPS. Thanks

The technology depends on GPS chip technology within certain cellular phones. http://gadgetupdates.googlepages.com/gps_tracking_cell_phones_spyware

Hi, Does anybody know of any relatively inexpensive dual frequency GPS receivers? Modules with raw data output (as carrier phase and pseudorange measurements) are preferable. Something like u-blox LEA-4T, but with L2 :) Thanks, VVX

What doesn't the new iPhone have, this new modern day electronic smartphone that has become all the new rage is missing an all important feature - the GPS... http://gadgetupdates.googlepages.com/gps_on_iphone

I can install my old non-locking (and how sweet it is compared with their obnoxious newer locked up maps!) Metroguide v. 4.01, but I can not install my newer City Select v. 6.02 and City Select v.7 update on my new Vista 64 laptop. I just installed the maps on a regular Vista laptop with no problem except for the usual unlocking hassles. Actually I CAN install the City Selects, but when I do,...

I only use my Tom Tom XL occasionally, keeping it in the house otherwise. Is it OK to keep it on the mains charger, so that it's always fully-charged when I use it? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Hi, sorry for the noob question, but the phone I use, Asus p320, is a GPS enabled one. 1. I did download google maps, and checked the 'use GPS' option. but it gets stuck on 'searching' Please help 2. Is there anything I can do without buying new hardware to improve my phone's signal receptivity?

The most accurate way of navigating on Earth is to use the Global Positioning System (GPS) – a receiver reads the signals broadcast by at least three orbiting satellites and calculates its position to within a few metres on Earth. Arthur Dula, a space lawyer and former NASA consultant, wants to make a similar version for the whole solar system. A SSPS, if you will. More at...

Here is a KBH post from another newsgroup along with additional comments that were added: There is an Approximate-Transverse-Mercator algorithm suitable for shirt pocket calculators that converts latitude and longitude to rectangular coordinates. So it's Lat * 60 * 1852 for the North coordinate in meters and it's Lon * 60 * 1852 * Cos(Lat) for the East coordinate in meters.

There is a recent firmware upgrade for the 760 . I strongly suggest you avoid it. 1) once upgraded, your nuvi will make the last turn announcement AFTER you have passed the turn. 2) normal downgrade to earlier firmware does not work.

I recorded a circular walk yesterday (around Bewl Water in East Sussex, UK) with my QStarz Bluetooth GPS unit plus iPAQ 2210 Pocket PC. With the trackpoints on my PC I did a little editing in GPS Utility (version 4.94) to remove the spurious signals that arose during the 15 minutes for coffee in the pub at the starting point. (Such editing in Memory-Map is virtually impossible, a major flaw...

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