Holy crap! GPS has gotten better since my last one!

[Hayabusa Rider]

My Axim 50v arrived with the GPS and I tried it out. Man this thing is accurate! It's WAAS enabled (look it up) so it's far more accurate than my Garmin GPS III+. The maps and GPS are so accurate that when it says turn it not only puts you on the road, but the correct side of it

Highly recommended.

 

Men don't need directions.

 

[z0mb13]

pics or links?

what is it called?

how much?

 

[Yossarian]

WAAS is great, eventually for aviation it will allow precision approaches to airports that never had them before.

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Men don't ASK FOR directions.

Corrected...
That's why we have GPS system to take care of it.

 

[NutBucket]

Yeah, they now allow more precise timings (ie better accuracy) for civilian units. The military has had this kind of accuracy since GPS was first implemented.

 

[axelfox]

do you have turn by turn maps and directions?

 

[Squisher]

The wife has been getting that GPS system from Avis rent-a-car. I think it's an extra $20.

It's kinda like OnStar, you talk to person through it who programs your destination. Then it leads you by the hand.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: axelfox
do you have turn by turn maps and directions?

Yep it does.


brief review.

I thought better of the software package than they do. It tells you turn by turn, in a clear voice. Much better than Street Atlas for the laptop, and if you turn off the main path, it doesn't just put you back on, but recalculates your position and will come up with an completely different route if appropriate.

 

[iamtrout]

Like SampSon said, men don't need directions. Nor women. The truly skilled have built-in biological GPS systems.









n00b.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: iamtrout
Like SampSon said, men don't need directions. Nor women. The truly skilled have built-in biological GPS systems.









n00b.

We don't NEED computers either, yet we here seem to have them

 

[DrPizza]

more info please..... I need to think of a good xmas gift to have my wife get for me

 

[Ornery]

Does it get on your shlt if you don't go where you're supposed to?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Does it get on your shlt if you don't go where you're supposed to?

It's a GPS, not a wife

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
more info please..... I need to think of a good xmas gift to have my wife get for me

Yet another review

I have a 1gb card in the Axim. You need a BIG one. The entire mapset is 1.6 gb, but I just have the Northeast loaded (about 350 mb).

The software is on two cd's and you select what you want to upload. Pretty easy.

 

[DrPizza]

So... what am I looking at, in terms of final price for everything... hardware, software, memory?