Inexpensive GPS units

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Tue Nov 23 22:40:06 2004 Inexpensive GPS units
Posted by Tony Lawrence
Referencing: http://www.lowrance.com

I should have realized these things were getting less and less expensive, but what I thought was really neat about http://www.lowrance.com was their downloadable emulators. Though unfortunately only for Microsoft OSes, these really let you try out the product features and usage before you buy. That's a really great way to sell a product like this. Great idea, very well done, and very useful.

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Sun Oct 29 16:43:01 2006:   BigDUmbDinosaur


Gee! What did we ever do before GPS became available? Get lost a lot? <SarcasticGrin>



Sun Oct 29 19:24:43 2006:   TonyLawrence


I certainly did.. though mapquest etc. make it easier now.





Thu Nov 2 07:45:36 2006:   drag


I bought a little USB GPS receiver a while ago.

Just a little black box attatched to a cord. I used GPSD with it and GPSDrive in Linux on my laptop. Kinda fun, kept me from getting lost on a trip. I wish the maps included with it were better, but I just need to figure out how to scan in my own I guess.

With it you can do neat things like combine it with Kismet to map out wireless access points and things of that nature.

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