RE: PING: People from GPS bulk buy

["Ian Davidson" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Hi

I had two of the GPS units and they work well. It lives in the car and
is great. I just use autoroute 2002 no voice but I just follow the
green
line with the laptop on the passenger seat. 

Yesterday I set off to the same location as a colleague (different
routes) about 15 minutes behind them and used the GPS, I arrived there
a
good 5 minutes in front. (not all down to the GPS though, colleague in
van, me in Scooby!)

There was a link posted with circuit details can not remember off hand
but should be in the archives. It is basically a MAX232 IC which will
work but there is another IC to derive timing pulses if you want to use
that facility. The backup battery is also a must; it improves the start
up time vastly.

Ian D





-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Laurence <andy@xxxxxxx>
[mailto:andy@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 09 January 2003 12:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] PING: People from GPS bulk buy

I've had my GPS modules sat on my desk since they arrived.  A friend
was going to make up a circuit to hook them into a serial port, but 
he's been too busy.  Has anyone else done this, or know how to? 
I'd 
quite like to use my modules for a wardriving machine, and a satnav 
box.  Talking of which, can anyone recommend some decent software for
navigation?  Preferably something I could run on my Point 510, but
anything really.  It just needs to tell me how to get somewhere from
my current location.  Of course, live traffic updates via GPRS/GSM
would be nice ;-)

Cheers,
Andy


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