GPS Whatever

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GPS Whatever

• Poncho Lefty

I want a You Are Here map!
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Introduction

• Interesting things you can do with your GPS and
  your decrepit laptop
• Neato stuff you can do with your GPS, a decripit
  laptop, a Ham radio
• A few loose ends that dont go in either of the
  above

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Interesting things

• Making the connection
• cables
• comm standards

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Interesting Things...

• Software
• DeLorme
• Street Atlas
• Topo
• GPSy
• Teletype GPS
• Etak

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Bigger ! Better

• Street Pilot
• GPS III
• Small Things
• WinCE
• Palm X

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Neato Things

• Ever wondered where someone else was on the
  trail?
• Got a ham radios to go with your laptops and
  GPSs?
• Check into APRS!
• Automatic Position Reporting System
• Allows realtime plotting of reporting stations on
  a map

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What you need to do

• Connect your laptop to your ham
• TNC or Data Ready radio such as Kenwoods new
  TH-D7A
• Download free APRS software
• Get the right map files
• Core map format isnt great
• Can use scanned maps
• PC version interfaces with Precision Mapping
  Street 3.0
• Get a friend to hook GPS to Ham

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Loose Ends

• Where you are is irrelevant if youre wrapped
  around a tree.
• Its easier to end up wrapped around a tree when
  the laptop youre looking at is bouncing around
  the floor of the vehicle.