Team-BHP - GPS Solutions Demystified

Its good to see so much interest in GPS systems. I have one built into my car but i find its mostly for a novelty factor. Hopefully with this interest more maps will become available and then it will actually be usable.

cheers.

Hi,
I am planning to get HTC touch, it runs on Windows Mobile 6 platform. I also plan to get bluetooth GPS device. Will this combination work ?
And which software should i go for navigation?
Help me !!

Hai GPS geeks,

GPS laptops are being sold abroad. I wonder if it would be possible to use a GPS mouse with google on a laptop. That would be a great new solution.

I saw an Ipaq with GPS (don't remember the moder number) with GPRS using Google earth with great accuracy, error of about 5 mts !!!, we walked with it to see how accurate it is, pretty amazing. No navigation, its very good for GPS tracking.

I understand there's a way to use GPS mobile maps with a free software called Goops which allows you to use your mobile pda with google maps.

Anybody has experience on this?

I have an adept GPS receiver with HTC P3700 with SatGuide maps. Great solution, learning to make way points and points of interest to make my own map. Accuracy is not great, but you can navigate on it.

--Ramky

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Originally Posted by sharathjeppu (Post 588753)

How many members on this forum use MGmaps with the gmap-track enabled. I am listed as 'sharathjeppu'.

Hi
I am using MGMaps and my listing is dilipkumar7278.
Regards

mgmaps is great and works across most of the mobile phones that have reasonable support for Java Midlets.

If you have Window Mobile 5 or higher, try Google Navigator Pdafun.net - Google Navigator,Google earth mobile,Best GPS navigation software,Best mobile map software on windows mobile pocket pc

Vabs,

avoid the n95 for GPS purposes, atleast in India. In Delhi it doesnt work in open, near the airport. nor inside malls et al. I've seen it with two colleagues and at several shops too.

FWIW, a colleague's N95 didn't catch a single satellite on the beach in Phuket either - so I am frankly disappointed with its "GPS" abilities!

thanks for the reply phamilyman, you saved me some big bucks :)
I will go for some cheaper phone then (E65??) and use a bluetooth GPS receiver.

Anybody has used Welcome to SatGuide – India’s 1st GPS Navigation ?

I am looking for a Nokia LD-3W gps receiver, any idea where i can find it and for how much? Are there an GPS receivers in the market which have mini usb as well as Bluetooth conectivity?

edit. >> I have found one ... the Holux Bluetooth/USB GPS Receiver M1000 :D

has any one here used this receiver? I want to be compatible with my Nokia e50 and Sony PsP.

I am also looking for a BT receiver to work with Nokia E65.

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Originally Posted by heavy_foot (Post 597004)

the Holux Bluetooth/USB GPS Receiver M1000

This doesn't have the Sirf III chipset. Anybody have any idea how good are the MTK MT3318 GPS Chipset? Specs say that these are 32 channel as opposed to the 20 channel Sirf III chipsets.

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Originally Posted by saurabh159 (Post 588823)

Should work fine. I am using an older HTC phone running WM5 and a BT GPS receiver. This works fine, I have TomTom, Mapking, Papago and Route 66 on the phone.

MapmyIndia Navigator - India's choice in GPS navigation

Heres one from Map my India & saw its review on CNN-IBN this morning & it seems really accurate from the report.

GPS gurujis, I have an Imate JAQ3 ( Club i-mate - i-mate JAQ3 )which apparently runs on Windows Mobile 5.

What would be the most simplest ,straight forward GPS software to use?
And whats the most popular,reliable,tried n tested Bluetooth GPS device to go along with it?