Sat Navs

[pottsy]

Does mark x have a postcode?

[mark]

I'll ask him

[Marc]

Bash me NavX over if you have a copy

[BriH]

or...

buy an iPhone

google maps with gps built in, or if you really want it you can download tomtom to run on an iphone, or, as I've done on mine, you can use a mac app called gpsNavX and run all the admiralty charts on it as well, or all 3 at the same time if you want to

mark ,will i be able to do this on my Ipod touch ?? - i havent messed about with it ,breaking into it and re booting etc etc ,only cos i dont know how to - i have used it on line from many wifi shops ,once i have prised the F"*^%g password from there grubby little hands ,christ you would think it costs them loads the way they go on about it - but would be grateful of some advice

Ta

[mark]

yup.

one or 2 limitations as the ipod touch is basically an iphone without a phone in it. everything else is identical - operating system, framework etc,

not having a phone built in, geolocation via cell phone towers won't work and nor will gps, but there's rumours they're going to include the gps module in a new touch due out in august. the app framework for gps is built in though, but not the hardware. there's a few people out there adapted little bluetooth usb recievers to work though, few movies of it on youtube (search for 'iphone gps') there's a gps reciever ont he markey that is bluetooth and wifi so is easy to use apparently but I haven't tried it.

TomTom have their software ready for market but apple won't allow them to release it tillt he new iPhones are in shops next month, saw a demo last month and its identical to the normal tom toms, but better in that it automatically updates itself via the web every time you turn the phone on

to unlock the phone is a doddle. stick it in iTunes, and makes sure you've the latest software installed.

go to ZiPhone's Blog

and download the ZiPhone app. run it, plug the pod in, click the unlock button and you're done!

once it unlocks the pod/phone, it sticks an application on called Installer (dur!) so if you've got a wifi connection, run that app and it'll pull a list from loads of web sources of applications that will run on the thing.

just tap on the app you want and it downloads and installs

both the iphone and iPod touch run the same Unix operating system that makes macs do there stuff so once you lift the bonnet, there's no ender of potential. I've even seen a copy of photoshop running on one!

I stuck a nintendo emulator on mine among other things and downloaded masses of nintendo games!

if it all goes wrong, plug it back into itunes and click restore - resets back to how it was and relocks it. pretty bomb proof things

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

I've got Tom Tom on my Nokia N95 ,good stuff ,only used it once mind you .

[The Great Wallsendo]

genuine reason for bringing a 2 year old thread back to life (new threads are very wasteful when a thread has already been started )...

whilst not buying anything online today I looked at a GPS dongle for the laptop...

BlueNEXT BN-903 USB GPS Dongle

now the reason I was looking at this is because while my Android phone has GPS and Google maps it requires a data connection to refresh the data

Is this dongle the answer?...assuming I can find a suitable offline maps program...in fact can anyone recommend a (free? reasonably priced?) software package that would suit my needs?

[phill_itofish]

Google View Ranger mate

link added

ViewRanger : Off-road Topographic Map Navigation, Sports GPS, Buddy Beacon Tracking and Location-Based Content

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Ahem I can update from my previous post , I phone 4 now ...there can be only one .

Hope you get sorted Tone.

[KeithB]

I've got Garmin on my Nokia N97 the built in GPS gets a fix very quickly.

[The Great Wallsendo]

Looked into this and seems it's actually cheaper/easier to buy a stand alone GPS/Sat Nav' unit than try and emulate the same on a PC - there is no such thing as "free" software so you're looking at best part of £50-100 for a half decent program

Most phone navigation requires data connection

Last chuck of the dice is an App' called Mapdroyd...got the App' but the maps file is 2 gig' so will download that at home tonight

[greggthe1]

Tom Tom's are down to £80 new........just do it

[FISHERMAN]

tom tom and garmin are ya best makes ov sat nav dont bother with owt else there crap theres a little saying in life you get wat u pay for lol

[bozjc]

google maps for your phone bud.

or an ordinace survey map of the area you want to fish, i have a shat load for the areas i have fished up the coast and across the country, give you the paths, lanes, placed to park etc, tidal marks and also the lay of the lands, beach, rocks, skeers etc

i also have some naval / mariner sea maps for depths of water and features etc

[The Great Wallsendo]

in the 2 years since this thread started I have ticked off the first two comments in your post Boz

S/W Scotland pretty much O/S Mapped off along with parts of South Wales, Cornwall and the South Coast and used google maps on the phone last trip out to argue with Gregg where a gulley was

Garmin Nuvi seems to be the front runner at the mo'