[GeoStL] Re: Maps for pocket PC (PPC)
- From: "BottomFeeder" <BottomFeeder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:52:13 -0600
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Not looking to get rid of anything, 'but'........
How are you going to connect the Tosh to your GPS?
You may want to buzz thru the forums at http://www.gpspassion.com. Several
of the more popular PPC based street navigation apps maintain 'official'
support forums there....Mapopolis being one of them. If you have questions
about the demo, I'm sure they can be answered there.
At the same site, there is a discussion forum for topo s/w as well (though
they refer to it as 'Off Road', I think). The ones most commonly mentioned
are OziExplorer (or whatever the ppc version is called), Pocket Navigator (
the one from maptech.com, not 'PocketMap Navigator', a street nav app from
Space Machine), Outdoor Navigator (also from maptech.com), and Memory-Map.
I've heard good things about the OZ app, but it's also my understanding you
have to go find your own maps and then spend time dinking around getting
them to 'register' in the application....or some such. Me being the lazy
bugger I am, the last bit sounded a lot like 'work' to me, so I never
bothered to explore it much.
Pocket Navigator from MapTech is a *very* nice product. But you do have to
buy their maps to use with the program. And though the maps are also *very*
nice, they are rather expensive @ generally $100/pkg. A 'package' generally
being a single state or some special group like all US Nat'l Parks.
Occasionally, they do offer nice sales for as much as 50% off some packages.
The other nice thing about this solution is that each 'package' comes with a
copy of their 'Terrain Navigator' app for the desktop. Nice and very easy to
use.
Outdoor Navigator is the most intriguing of the bunch, IMO. They're offering
it as a subscription service much like Mapopolis does for street stuff. For
$99 the first year you get the app and as many maps as you want/can dl.
There is a demo available of it from http://www.outdoornavigator.com. The
initial release of the s/w itself was somewhat lacking in features, but they
have just today released a new version. If it addresses some of the missing
features, I'd be very tempted to subscribe.
Memory-Map I don't know much about. It's a UK based company, and if you
visit their site, most of their map offerings seem to be UK based. But their
prez has visited the GPSPassion forums on several occasions, and alluded to
the availability of US based maps as well. Poking around on the site a bit,
I didn't see much US based stuff, but could easily have missed it.
-= Russ =-
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> [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:12
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [GeoStL] Maps for pocket PC (PPC)
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> I have been messing around with the demo version of Mapopolus
> maps and
> they seems pretty slick. I can actually see the map on the
> bigger screen
> of the PDA vs the tiny screen of the GPS. DownLoading the
> map is a little
> tough tho.
>
> If anyone out there has experience with PPC mapping and
> possibly Topo stuff
> and is looking to get rid of the CD set, I think i may be
> interested in
> taking said programs off your hands (at a reasonable price of course)
>
> The demo seems odd in that to find a place, it seems that you
> need the
> address. Point to a spot on the map and saying "take me
> there" would be
> real durn handy. Still playing.......
>
> glenn
>
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> Glenn
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