Touch Screen and USB

Submitted: Wednesday, Apr 12, 2006 at 00:42
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I am planning and researching the GPS receiver that will run off the Lappy. I spend a good hour last night going though the forum and searching old threads and have come up with a good idea of what is what. The setup I will run is a 7" In-Dash VGA Touch Screen Monitor sitting in my spare din slot. The audio on the Laptop will run into the aux port of my stereo so I can play MP3's and watch the news with the USB TV tuner card I have. I will then run the wires to the Lappy that will be under the drivers seat. Now the lappy only has 1 USB port and that worries me a little because I want to run a small wireless keyboard for when I need to type something, but that will run from USB. The GPS receiver will be Bluetooth so I will need another USB port for that, so we are up to 3 USB devices already. 1) Screen.2) UBS Bluetooth receiver. 3) Keyboard. 4)USB TV Tuner. If I buy a USB hub will this fix my problem of only having the 1 USB port? the other problem I have now is that I will have heaps of wires under my chair and it might look messy.

I was thinking of running oziexplorer with the setup for when I am off the main roads and then something like nroute when I am in the city for voice navigation. I am really struggling making the connection with oziexplore and how the mapping works. I did some reading on their site and gather that you just find a map and unload it and it will show you on the map you uploaded were you are? that is the part that I don't understand how it works. The way I understand it is that I can say take a map from a 4x4 park scan it and load it into ozi and then it will show me on the screen where I am?? this does not make sense and I can't see how this will work. Maybe I have it all wrong?

what do you guys think about this setup?
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