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| Re: Microsoft Streets and Trips GPS [message #200664 is a reply to message #200659] |
Tue, 05 March 2013 04:17   |
tphipps
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Jim Brennan uses Streets and Trips with an elderly laptop as his GPS in the GMC. Works extremely well. The attached puck is the actual GPS, laptop just provides display and computing support. Only down side is the typical dim laptop display. Most, if not all laptops are optimized for battery life. The display is the biggest consumer of power.
If you can find a Motion Computing LE laptop (no longer made), they have one of the brightest daylight visible screens.
Amongst my collection of various GPS systems, I do have Streets and Trips.
I would love to hear of a laptop with a daylight visible screen. Battery life is not a problem in the GMC.
Tom, MS II
2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
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| Re: [GMCnet] Microsoft Streets and Trips GPS [message #200672 is a reply to message #200664] |
Tue, 05 March 2013 07:06 |
Steven Ferguson
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The GPS function of MS S&T is nice because you see the BIG picture. The
small GPS units, TTGo etc, make it seem like you're driving in a tunnel
sometimes. I like the zoom in zoom out feature of S&T. Tough to shade the
screen in a GMC with all those huge windows around the cockpit.
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Thomas Phipps <tph1pp5@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Jim Brennan uses Streets and Trips with an elderly laptop as his GPS in
> the GMC. Works extremely well. The attached puck is the actual GPS,
> laptop just provides display and computing support. Only down side is the
> typical dim laptop display. Most, if not all laptops are optimized for
> battery life. The display is the biggest consumer of power.
> If you can find a Motion Computing LE laptop (no longer made), they have
> one of the brightest daylight visible screens.
> Amongst my collection of various GPS systems, I do have Streets and Trips.
> I would love to hear of a laptop with a daylight visible screen. Battery
> life is not a problem in the GMC.
> Tom, MS II
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| Re: [GMCnet] Microsoft Streets and Trips GPS [message #200677 is a reply to message #200672] |
Tue, 05 March 2013 07:51 |
k2gkk
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The Acer Aspire One has the brightest display
of any of my computers. There are 10 levels of
brightness accessible. The battery life is very
good, also. The only downside is that there is
no disc drive included. You can add an external
drive for the few occasions where you need to
load a program or other software. I added a
cheap BlueTooth dongle for about $5 or less
directly from Hong Kong. WiFi is built in.
It's a very neat package.
I use a Garmin GPSMap 276C as one GPS and
a smaller, newer Garmin 550 for the windshield.
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> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 06:06:28 -0700
> From: botiemad11@gmail.com
> To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Microsoft Streets and Trips GPS
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> The GPS function of MS S&T is nice because you see the BIG picture. The
> small GPS units, TTGo etc, make it seem like you're driving in a tunnel
> sometimes. I like the zoom in zoom out feature of S&T. Tough to shade the
> screen in a GMC with all those huge windows around the cockpit.
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Thomas Phipps <tph1pp5@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >
> > Jim Brennan uses Streets and Trips with an elderly laptop as his GPS in
> > the GMC. Works extremely well. The attached puck is the actual GPS,
> > laptop just provides display and computing support. Only down side is the
> > typical dim laptop display. Most, if not all laptops are optimized for
> > battery life. The display is the biggest consumer of power.
> > If you can find a Motion Computing LE laptop (no longer made), they have
> > one of the brightest daylight visible screens.
> > Amongst my collection of various GPS systems, I do have Streets and Trips.
> > I would love to hear of a laptop with a daylight visible screen. Battery
> > life is not a problem in the GMC.
> > Tom, MS II
> > --
> > 1975 GMC Avion, under forever re-construction
> > Vicksburg, MS. 3.7 miles from I-20
> > _______________________________________________
>
> --
> Take care,
> Steve
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| Re: Microsoft Streets and Trips GPS [message #200698 is a reply to message #200659] |
Tue, 05 March 2013 10:22 |
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Matt Colie
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The basic site is interesting even though I gave up on Streets & Trips years ago. I like to look at what they have done and be ready to advise those that still use it. Besides, they used to have a pretty good "Use this free for a while" that let a lot of people get started (hooked).
It was also good to see that, on this page, they give credit to both Laptop GPS World http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/ and the Discovery Owners site http://www.discoveryowners.com/cginfo.htm. They even have another page that has the files copied from there, but many of them are out of date. (Use the link above for the current files.) The Discovery Owners have a collection of POI files that can be downloaded (free) and put onto just about anything that can take a POI file. If you don't know about it, you should go and look at it.
Until you really get into it, you can't begin to believe the capability of these laptop navigators. If you have a GPS (almost any GPS) SA can tie to it, but it is way simpler to use a puck now that they exist. (They didn't used to, so I had to use a serial connection to a marine GPS and only SA would allow that. S&T quickly set up their own standard.)
With the GPS attached, you now have a big map with a "You Are Here" on it. There is now a big toss-up between available information on the road from both the laptop and standalones. That one I am still not sure about, but, when it comes to planning- - - The Laptop Wins!
Learn it and love it...
Me, for the last several weeks I have been working up the plan for Dothan by way of Cub Run Cave and the Natchez Trace - including the USS Cairo and home with stops in Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Raleigh, Hatteras, Newport News, Lexington Park, Cass WV (home of the most remaining geared locomotives), Garretsville OH. (Yes, Ellaville is in the plan.)
Today, the planned excursion is a little shy of 4Kmiles, about 100 hrs of driving three nights of dry camping (not including family driveways), three other nights in actual campgrounds (just for the water and dump), and we will burn a little less than 1800$ in fuel (if the price holds).
Now, if I could get it to tally up the APU run time in advance...
Isn't this stuff great?
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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