Tuesday, Jul 24, 2018 at 14:43
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Hi Broodie,
My Samsung has an inbuilt GPS receiver so is in communication with satellites at all times. Other than that I carry paper maps which are more convenient for planning and provide backup. My tablet is a Samsung Tab 'A' S-Pen 10.1 inch, SM-P585Y, 2016 model, $448 (plus an SD card) from JB HiFi.
One big advantage of the digital mapping is that it shows your vehicle position on the map at all times. You know where you are and you can see the desired location approaching. Plus, from a safety point of view, if you turn-on 'tracking' the tablet distinctly colours the map track behind you, so that if you need to back-track you simply follow the track back and thus do not take a side track in error.
I do have another self-built GPS navigation gizmo on the dash. It numerically provides co-ordinates, time, speed, altitude, trip distance and several other vehicle data. These functions are also within OziExplorer on the tablet, but in particular the trip odometer is more useful as it can be pre-set to the event (track-
junction etc) then counts down to zero, and shows expected time to end. This is much better than an odometer that counts 'up' where you need to remember the starting distance and subtract the elapsed. But all this is icing on the cake and in any case, I built it before I obtained the digital mapping system.
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