Thursday, August 14, 2008

gps system Updates



palm gps buying tips1. Decide which type of GPS you need. There are four main types of GPS units; the car navigation system, the portable outdoors unit, the marine system, and the PDA/GPS hybrid. If you�re mainly planning on using your GPS to get you from point A to B in your car and don�t think you�d use it for much else, your best bet is the in-car navigation system. If you�re going to want a GPS device that isn�t limited to the car, then you may want to consider a handheld GPS. If being on the water and fishing is your thing then you should probably consider a marine GPS or GPS fish finder. These units are specifically designed to be on and around water. The final category of GPS tracking device is the PDA/GPS hybrid. This device offers a good combination of the auto GPS system and handheld device.
Get a great new auto GPS

A basic GPS receiver will not tell you where you must turn left or right. It can tell you in which direction and how far away your destination is, but no promise that you can move along a straight line from you current position to your destination. You may have to obey traffic rules, go around mountains or look for bridges. You might have to go back in order to get on a trail that will eventually reach your destination.
Get a great new Magellan GPS

Say you are exploring Yosemite National Park by car and foot, and you have set waypoints for a parking lot at the trailhead and for Yosemite Village. As you wander along a twisting mountain trail, you realize that you aren't exactly on the trail anymore; in fact, you're lost. Fortunately, you can use your GPS device to call up a waypoint that will identify the distance between your current position and the parking lot. You won't have street maps, but you can use the compass and the directional arrows to set yourself on the right path back to the trail, your car, or the village. As you get closer to the waypoint, its icon will appear larger on your GPS screen.
Get a great new TomTom GPS

Write Here, Write Now: And you thought you were overloaded with information now, just wait. Hewlett Packard is working on a technology to let folks print messages in mid-air based on their location incorporating GPS technology. I find this stuff fascinating, even if no one seems to have thought of a good use for it yet. The first sentence of the article is right, though: "The kids are going to love this." in New Scientist via RCPL's Liblog]


When the ALA summer conference was in San Francisco in 1997, the SF Museum of Modern Art had a fascinating exhibit called Icons: Magnets of Meaning. I spent hours browsing through it, but one of the pieces that has always stuck in my mind was called @: Marking the Electrosphere . It talked about the meaning of that one little symbol. How it can define, place, and root you in the world, but at the same time let you be found anywhere. Integrated, widespread use of GPS is going to take this to a whole new level.




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