GPS on laptop

[Oli-dogg]

Originally Posted by Jeddo

That's the same brand and model you nonga.

Thanks, from the nonga.

Originally Posted by Jeddo

if i were you i'd go with the BU-353. SiRF Star III dominates over venus 6 chipset. And sure the venus 6 dongle has data logging on the USB stick... but you still need software to run it (just as you do the BU-353 one, and pretty much any s/w you use will have data logging onto your HDD (much safer than a dongle flash memory))

Interesting comment about SIRF Star III dominating the Venus 6 chipset, the seller on Ebay describes it as "1 SEC ACQUISITION VENUS 6.0 TECH BETTER THAN SIRF III". Can you please explain this? Good point about the data logging capability. Do you know if you can data log onto your HDD with Oziexplorer?

Originally Posted by Steve F

Forget google earth and 3G modems etc all additional cost, just buy Oziexplorer and get some free maps, I have a bunch pretty much covering the whole east coast and more. Works like a charm and these maps are topographical so perfect for offroad.

Steve, are these the free topographical maps of NSW you have?

http://maps.festy.org/downloads/ozi/NSW/

I'm in the process of downloading them.

Originally Posted by Steve F

The thing I like about the maps for Oziexplorer is you easily see where a trail goes etc, Google earth is prettier but on a lot of trails all you see is the tops of trees. I guess there are advantages to both...

Exactly. I've now got Oziexplorer on my laptop but I haven't had a play around with it yet. I tried following some off road trails on Google Earth and you are right because they completely disappear in places due to the tree tops covering the tracks. I'm going to use a combination of Oziexplorer and Google Earth, do you know if it's possible to have both applications open together with your GSP location displayed on both programs simultaneously?

[Oli-dogg]

Originally Posted by Jeddo

DX offer free shipping - so you'll be saving a few $$ compared to ebay.

Hey you nonga, unless I'm mistaken the DX price is in US dollars because when I clicked on Checkout they wanted to charge me $83 compared to the $48 on Ebay (which is also free postage).

[Steve F]

Originally Posted by Oli-dogg

...Steve, are these the free topographical maps of NSW you have?

http://maps.festy.org/downloads/ozi/NSW/

I'm in the process of downloading them.

Exactly. I've now got Oziexplorer on my laptop but I haven't had a play around with it yet. I tried following some off road trails on Google Earth and you are right because they completely disappear in places due to the tree tops covering the tracks. I'm going to use a combination of Oziexplorer and Google Earth, do you know if it's possible to have both applications open together with your GSP location displayed on both programs simultaneously?

Yep,those are the maps I have (plus others I think) You can run both applications if you use a utility to send the GPS output to two COM ports so that each piece of software gets the same data through it's own COM port. I use xport to split the port to two so my laptop can run multiple GPS programs from the one GPS.

Steve
Cheers

[Oli-dogg]

Originally Posted by Steve F

I use xport to split the port to two so my laptop can run multiple GPS programs from the one GPS.

Cheers, this will come in very handy.