I'm looking for two kinds of solutions to a single
problem.

The problem: Navigating in an unknown US/Canada city.

Solution 1: More or less up-2-date maps that can be
stored in the hard disk and consulted if needed in my
testing-laptop.
Solution 2: Functional implementation of gps-aided
navigation.

Are there any tutorials, howtos out there that could
guide me in this? I imagine that there may be some
cheaper way using [debian+(radioshack or other)] than
traditional existing ~$900 systems.



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On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:27:57 -0700 (PDT)
Arc Roca <tonroca@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for two kinds of solutions to a single
> problem.
>
> The problem: Navigating in an unknown US/Canada city.
>
> Solution 1: More or less up-2-date maps that can be
> stored in the hard disk and consulted if needed in my
> testing-laptop.
> Solution 2: Functional implementation of gps-aided
> navigation.
>
> Are there any tutorials, howtos out there that could
> guide me in this? I imagine that there may be some
> cheaper way using [debian+(radioshack or other)] than
> traditional existing ~$900 systems.

1) Handheld, brand-name modern GPS systems are regularly available from Circuit City, Buy.com, etc. for as little as ~$200.
2) Receivers (no screen) are available for about $50, IIRC.
3) Receivers + mapping software / data packages (for use on laptops) are available for ~$90.
4) See GpsDrive [0]. It's software that works with a receiver (see #2 above) and freely available data to show your location on a map. It apparently doesn't provide street navigation with turn by turn directions.
I haven't actually tried any of these; I'd be curious to know what else is available.

Celejar

[0] http://www.gpsdrive.cc/


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Celejar(celejar@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:27:57 -0700 (PDT)
> Arc Roca <tonroca@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Are there any tutorials, howtos out there that could
> > guide me in this? I imagine that there may be some
> > cheaper way using [debian+(radioshack or other)] than
> > traditional existing ~$900 systems.
>
> 1) Handheld, brand-name modern GPS systems are regularly available
> from Circuit City, Buy.com, etc. for as little as ~$200.
> 2) Receivers (no screen) are available for about $50, IIRC.
> 3) Receivers + mapping software / data packages (for use on laptops)
> are available for ~$90.
> 4) See GpsDrive [0]. It's software that works with a receiver (see
> #2 above) and freely available data to show your location on a map.
> It apparently doesn't provide street navigation with turn by turn
> directions. I haven't actually tried any of these; I'd be curious
> to know what else is available.
>
> Celejar

I found a new one recently that I have not yet used in the car.
<roadnav.sourceforge.net>. There is a Debian package.

Wayne

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On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 12:37 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> I found a new one recently that I have not yet used in the car.
> <roadnav.sourceforge.net>. There is a Debian package.

Thanks: I hadn't found this one yet. Another is roadmap:
http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net/


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2007/3/29, Arc Roca <tonroca@yahoo.com>:
I found some GPS related packages with
$aptitude search ~dgps
I hope there are useful (I have no other clue of GPS, sorry if I bothered
you)

Stan Pãpuºã

Owen Heisler(owenh000@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 12:37 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > I found a new one recently that I have not yet used in the car.
> > <roadnav.sourceforge.net>. There is a Debian package.
>
> Thanks: I hadn't found this one yet. Another is roadmap:
> http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net/

Thanks to you as well. I haden't seen that one either.

Wayne


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