GPS....

[Jhonathan]

hey guys, im not sure which forum to post this in, but lets say i wanted to hook my laptop up to a GPS navigation system and put it in my car, i already have the dc/ac adapter, laptop, and such, now what GPS reciever/software would you guys recomend? my research hasnt gotten me far and i was hoping that u guys might have some experience with it...
anyhow, thanks for any ideas
Jhonathan

[magic1872]

Hey what's up man. I'm a commercial Pilot and I have a GPS nav system in my car. It's great, I can switch between ground and aviation mode. The best thing about it, if i go on vacation i can download very detailed maps and install them on the system itself and i know where every bank, school, resturant, etc are. Anway I'm babbling now so ill stop. http://www.garmin.com/products/gpsmap295/

As far so GPS software for a computer I'm not too sure that there is such a thing, You need the hardware to reviece the sat. signals. I could be wrong but I dont think there out there. If you have anymore questions email me at Magic1872@aol.com

[Jhonathan]

Yeah, there is such a thing, only very few companies make them. The Earthmate is one of the few that are out there. I know u can also hook up a laptop to some of the garmin recievers, my friend has one, and he runs his laptop on it. Im just looking for an affordable GPS reciever that i can run through to my laptop and have a larger full color screen....and its very easy to download maps to a laptop [img]smile.gif[/img]

[nikon]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Jhonathan:
Yeah, there is such a thing, only very few companies make them. The Earthmate is one of the few that are out there. I know u can also hook up a laptop to some of the garmin recievers, my friend has one, and he runs his laptop on it. Im just looking for an affordable GPS reciever that i can run through to my laptop and have a larger full color screen....and its very easy to download maps to a laptop [img]smile.gif[/img] <hr></blockquote>


they sell one at best-buy....60$ I think...came with software and everything...just ran through the serial port....pretty cool, just dont have the money now....and I leave my cheap laptop in my car for OBD-2 but its only win 3.1 so it wouldnt support it...now if I put my toshiba with XP on it...thats a diff story..I just want a place to mount my laptop...or make a pc just for my car and put the screen where the headunit is....Im getting rid of my stereo anyways
;)

[magic1872]

I stand corrected I wasn't aware that they made software for laptops, just though you needed a reciever and antenna things like that. Well, good luck dude and take a pic of it if/when you get it up and running I would like to see it.