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| Re: [GMCnet] DeLorme Sale [message #283599 is a reply to message #283584] |
Fri, 31 July 2015 08:54   |
JohnL455
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Ken I have a much outdated version but love it as you could import all the CD data to your drive and then leave the CD at home. Do you know if this version still has that feature? Thanks.
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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| Re: [GMCnet] DeLorme Sale [message #283636 is a reply to message #283615] |
Fri, 31 July 2015 21:59 |
sgltrac
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Don,
If you were provided a suspect route with Delorme could one obtain a rough
location from the directions in the questionable area and then look it up
on google earth for a real birds eye view with which to make a better
decision?
Sully
77 Royale
77 Eleganza 2
Seattle
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Don Jeffers
wrote:
> Thanks for the tip, Ken.
>
> We just ordered one. We've been using Street Atlas USA with GPS for more
> than 10 years, maybe more than 15.
>
> Susan navigates from the co-pilot's seat (actually the navigator's seat)
> with her laptop and gives me progressive instructions. The only problem is
> that I don't have as much of a sense of where we've been as when I did my
> own navigation using a map. But I get to look around a lot more.
>
> The DeLorme system has been more than excellent with only a very few
> glitches over the years.
>
> A very early version, when asked for the shortest route from Utopia, TX to
> Austin, TX, routed us over dirt roads and through ranches. We followed
> that route just for fun and to see if it was passable; it was.
>
> Once a street in the Los Angeles hills showed to be continuous, but in
> fact was a dead end with a very deep canyon with no structures at all and a
> fairly long way around.
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> Otherwise, the DeLorme GPS product been great. We recommend the DeLorme
> GPS to all.
>
> Don and Susan Jeffers
> 78 Eleganza II
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77 Royale basket case.
Future motorhome land speed record holder(bucket list)
Seattle, Wa.
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| Re: [GMCnet] DeLorme Sale [message #283670 is a reply to message #283656] |
Sat, 01 August 2015 13:01 |
sgltrac
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I ordered the Delorme bundle with GPS receiver last night and am stoked to
hook it to my ms surface and test fly it on a trip to a soccer tournament
next weekend in Portland. Later in August we are trekking to Panacca Nevada
for the second to last round of the NHHA series and hope to have the
nav system kind of worked out before.
Sully
On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Matt Colie wrote:
> sgltrac wrote on Fri, 31 July 2015 22:59
>> Don,
>>
>> If you were provided a suspect route with Delorme could one obtain a
> rough location from the directions in the questionable area and then look it
>> up
>> on google earth for a real birds eye view with which to make a better
> decision?
>>
>> Sully
>
> Sully,
>
> It is even easier to do than it is to talk about.
> First, you have to set SA(Street Atlas) and GE(Google Earth) to the same
> coordinate format. I us DDD MM.mmm even though I use DDD MM SS for decades.
>
> SA provides the Lat/Long of the cursor continuously. Just fire GE and
> Alt/Tab between the two and move until you get a match. It is not always
> easy
> to see some of the hinterland roads, but if you can't see it from
> overhead, you have to think about taking the GMC there. It also great for
> finding
> where to overnight and such.
>
> Matt
>
>
> --
> Matt & Mary Colie - Members GMCMI, GMCES
> '73 Glacier 23 - Still Loving OE Rear Drum Brake with Applied Control Arms
> SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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Seattle, Wa.
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| Re: [GMCnet] DeLorme Sale [message #283713 is a reply to message #283689] |
Sun, 02 August 2015 07:25 |
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Matt Colie
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Alan,
It is hardly an either/or situation.
The dashboard GPS are never much value for planning and lack so many of the easily available features that they cannot be compared. While Street Atlas on a laptop or tablet can be an underway navigator, even a small tablet is too large to put in front of a driver. The best that we have found is to load the day's route (or the moments - some cases) to the driver's GPS. (Either directly or by cable.) Then examine and correct the route as needed.
Matt
Alan Story wrote on Sat, 01 August 2015 20:25You might want to look at the Rand McNally GPS also. I bought one when I got my coach and love it. Large screen and has a backup camera option.
http://www.randmcnally.com/category/rv-gps
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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