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Make sure your GPS receiver is set up properly. If you'll be using GPS with a map, or for map-making, the datum used by the receiver should match the datum specified in the margin of the map.
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Updates vary accordingly. They can come in CD/DVD post or as laptop downloads. GPS units vary in worth according to their usefulness. Prices may range from less than one hundred dollars to units costing more than one thousand dollars. What your desires are will be an aspect in the outlay of your unit. If you are a backpacker then portability is a main consideration. If you are a trucker, you want to be able to find a freedom spit as hastily and conveniently as possible. anything design you go for, outlay is normally related to quality. Buy the best you can afford.
A basic GPS receiver will not tell you where you must turn left or right. It can tell you in which direction and how far away your destination is, but no promise that you can move along a straight line from you current position to your destination. You may have to obey traffic rules, go around mountains or look for bridges. You might have to go back in order to get on a trail that will eventually reach your destination.
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How to save your current location
* Garmin models: Tapping on the vehicle icon on the map screen allows you to save your current location, as well as view your exact coordinates and elevation.
* Magellan Maestro models: tap on the direction icon in the upper left corner to bring up current location information, and the ability to save the current position into the address book.
* TomTom models: Menu -> Add Favorite -> Next Page -> GPS Position
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nextar gps News From Around The World
Lots of interesting articles from today's PC World. First up, Microsoft Takes on MapQuest: "MSN launches MapPoint online mapping service, offering maps, directions, and more."
Apparently this is going to be yet another component of MS' push for .Net services with hooks into other MSN services. MapPoint is XML-based, which makes it interesting in other ways, and there it launches with a phone-based direction service. The articles notes that this is another step towards location-based services. "For example, you might someday be able to click on a Windows Messenger buddy's name and retrieve a map showing the location of his or her home."
Good or bad? You make the call. I like parts of this, but I'm incredibly wary of .Net.
Qualcomm's Vision of the Wireless Future "When he finished, there were 20 brand-new, CDMA-based mobile handsets and devices arrayed on the table, the high-tech souvenirs of Belk's most recent trip to Hong Kong and Japan.... 'These are not PowerPoint slides,' Belk said. 'These are real devices that are already shipping in volume in Asia.' " at Business 2.0]
And there's the rub. When I do my presentations, that's all I have - pictures of prototypes or of devices not available in the U.S. Europe and Asia really are 18 months ahead of us in this area.
"Beale also discussed Qualcomm's gpsOne location technology.... It also opens the door for many new location-based services, such as traffic information and local weather forecasts. On Japan KDDI's network, there are already more than 20 location-based services available -- all of which are relatively inexpensive, costing less than $5 per month."
I'm looking forward to being able to travel and have information come to me automatically based on my location. For example, if I'm at a conference and I'm looking for a restaurant, I'd like my phone/PDA/whatever to know where I am and offer a list of nearby choices. Maybe it should tell me what movies or plays are on tonight and if there are still tickets available. You get the idea....
"Predictably, both Belk and Beale anticipate strong growth for the wireless industry as ever-more-compelling products and services become available and the industry settles on a single communication standard. How long will that take? Belk, whose career began in the personal computing business in 1983, likened the wireless industry today to the PC business of the 1980s. 'I wouldn't worry about the wireless industry yet, it's still relatively young,' he said. 'Just look how long it took the PC industry just to get to the point of standardized parallel cables.' "
Not to beat a dead horse, but the ebook industry is even younger than PCs, and PDAs have really only come into their own during the last few years. So don't count any of these technologies out just yet.
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