Juanse:
I use Garmin etrex venture (the least expensive one) a Visor Delux and
GPSPilot's Tracker (www.gpspilot.com). Can use Garmin as alone for
most activities. Tracker is great for field notes. The Garmin is good
in the rain (supposed to be, that is).
Problem w/Garmin is irregular nmea output.
Roy Chiappini
Blackfoot, Idaho US
Juanse Barros wrote:
>
> Alistair
>
> I have arrived to a similar assembly with Palm IIIxe ThinkDB RandMcNally GPS
> and gps plugin for thinkDb (www.pdabytes.com). I have bapticed it as Digital
> Field Assistant - DFA.
>
> Also sync with Access 97 and through queries export tables to be seen in MI.
>
> On the map side I am using www.Mapopolis.com that at the moment do not have
> gps capabilities but is possible to load MI maps and it is free.
>
> I would love to see dought(?) ThinkDB relational capabilities directly into,
> say Garmin E-trek, cause I am having great trouble using the assembly under
> heavy rain. Also the gps collection is slow and give great problem with the
> batery recharging. Not to mention two palm screen broken!!
>
> Any one in the list in Garmin, Magellan, Javad, Trimble, Astech ..... that
> can help..... por favor.....
>
> Juanse
> Temuko
> Chile.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alistair HART <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 2:59 AM
> Subject: RE: MI-L The use of GPS technology joint with palm pc
>
> > I currently use HandMap (~$US30) by Evolutionary Systems (www.handmap.net)
> to display MapInfo data on a Palm Vx with 8Mb of RAM. Most of the maps I
> create are only ~40Kb and can hold a lot of information. HandMap is Vector
> Based, GPS capable and has a 'copy' function so GPS co-ord's (along with
> other data if needed) can be recorded and then copied to another software
> package (eg: ThinkDB relational database - which I also use).
> >
> > Although I don't use GPS for my application, I do create the HandMap maps
> from MapInfo (via MapIt - another product from Evolutionary Systems).
> Unfortunately, I have to convert MapInfo .tab files to AkeView .shapefile
> format first to enable MapIt to import them. This will most probably change
> to accept MapInfo .tab format soon. It is very flexible, well supported and
> allows you to select which layers and which fields from each layer you wish
> to include in each map.
> >
> > I use ThinkDB (~$US40) (www.thinkingbytes.com) to collect the data in the
> field (in 3 related tables), using HandMap to get the correct property
> reference - to allow for geocoding later on) sync ThinkDB to the Desktop and
> drop all my THINKDB records into M$Access and run pre-written queries to
> generate the appropriate tables to Map with MapInfo.
> >
> > This system works well, is quick and saves a LOT of time re-entering
> handwritten records into M$Access.
> >
> > If you have any further q's. please email me,
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > > > Is there anyone who has tryed to connect a GPS
> > reciever with a palm?
> > > > Is it possible to load MAPINFO maps to a palm?
> > > > How many waypoints can I store to my palm?
> > > > How much memory do I need to store the waypoints for a whole day?
> > > > Is there any MAPINFO based software that I can use with my palm?
> > > > If someone has answers to my questions, please share any information =
> > > > with me via e-mail.
> > > >
> > > > -----------------
> > > > Odysseas Christou
> > > > [Research Director]
> > > >
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> > > > 543 52 Thessaloniki
> > > > Makedonia - Greece
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> > > > Phone : 0030 31 941160
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