GPS tablet size

also make sure you know what you want to do with your tablet you can (get good advice ) I.E ... program , maps etc , does this samsungs have usb & data slots ?
is it a andriods ? ...... it can be a trap !!

good luck

Hi Frank

This is a bit off topic but I have a query about the way you use the Galaxy and Copilot & Ozi.

We have more than 16Gb of maps, camps and town names with Ozi: Does the Galaxy have enough storage to 32Gb?

Is there a demo version of Copilot?

And lastly is Copilot a street navigation program or does it also cover the Canning Stock Route and tracks in the Simpson?

Sorry to be abother.

Phil

Phil the tablet comes with 16Gb but has a micro SD slot which will take up to 64Gb for a total of 80G

Oziexplorer, Memory Map or similar is what you need for places like CSR

Hi BB

My new box is still Windows CE and Ozi will do s fine. Haven't used the street navigation as yet. Not for me mate.

The grand daughter has a tablet and was asking.

I gather that Copilot is just street type navigation? Is that correct? Frank said that Copilot has "excellent outback roads, tracks and fire trails coverage". That's why I asked. If so it would be the easiest for them as a start to go camping in the high country around here.

Phil

Hi Phil,

Perhaps I should have qualified my statement a bit ...

"Copilot has excellent outback roads, tracks and fire trails coverage ... for a street navigator".

It has many, but not all.

It also has some funny ideas occasionally about which way to go and that's why I have Ozi in the foreground with a 25K or 100K detailed map so I can see what the little lady is suggesting :-) (CoPilot has no topo info).

I find the combination most useful in areas like state forests, nat parks, Vic High Country, NSW Snowies, etc.

For your grandies, it is a useful tool in the areas I mentioned but has thrown up a few quirky directions so I couldn't recommend it as a stand-alone tool. At least have a paper back-up so you can monitor it.

My Tab 7.7 is expanded to 48GB total. All my Ozi maps are on the 32GB micro SD. Not sure what the max expansion is - I thought it was 332GB but Boobook has got me thinking again.

CoPilot does not have a trial version, but it's not expensive. Aus and NZ in one package for about $35 I think. Mine's Android. Don't know if they have an iOS version. There is a Windows Mobile version.

Cheers mate

332GB??? Make that 32 :-)

Thanks Frank. They are getting good with Ozi and with all the town maps from UBD in it I think they can stick with it. Let them figure out where turn etc. Teach them a bit of map reading, all-be-it digital. I tried to get the street navigation copied from our box but it is linked to the SD card identity and although I used that method back in the 80's to protect software I developed, I haven't got the will or the tools now to try and circumvent it. It's an old but very successful licencing tool.

They wont need 332GB

Tnx Phil

Frank, Samsung, and most android manufacturers originally said 32G max for micro SD. However in the Tab 2 case they revised the spec up.

In almost every case, a Sandisk 64G card will work in an android 32G Micro SD slot.

The issue is the formatting, and Sandisk format their cards with ExFat, the system required by Android, out of the box. Other 64G cards can be formatted with Exfat but you need to do a bit of work.

I got a 64G Sandisk Micro SD from MSY computers for $62. I even put one in my old Motorola Defy+ and it works great.

Thanks Boobook, I'll follow that up. My 32gig card is filling up - Hema GDT, all the insets, FNQ the same, Aus 250K, all of Vic in 25K, most of NSW in 100K, High Country Hema and Rooftop ... etc, etc

Can't have too many maps :-) Not me, anyway.

Cheers

LOL you sound like me.

If you get GSMR, you can add off line google sat photos to your collection, that will really need a 64G card.

Oops link didn't work.

GSMR

Very good point , I found the same issue running offroad and street maps on the same unit.
Two separate units is much better and a street navigator is only $100

Yeah, agreed. I can run CoPilot on my phone if I don't want to change screens on the tab.