Best Mapping Software, Maps etc ?

I have no experience with Oziexplorer, can it be used with street mapping as well & not that it's important, does it have voice prompts?

Shaker,
you can load up city streets I think for around 60 bucks and Ozi does have voice prompts but I have never used them.......I already have one voice nagging me from the passenger seat I don't need another :-0

Toytruck

Shaker, Ozi doesn't do turn by turn directions like Tom Tom or Destinator. You have to get into route planning and tell it what to do, turn by turn. Quite a different software product.

When ya get GPS Gate sorted out- let me know?? I'm in the same situation with Ozi & Destinator..

I agree with Dave,

After owning 4 or 5 different GPS's and then laptops with mapping software. I know run TomTom for turn by turn and Oziexplorer on a PDA. I have found that TomTom seems to have more details than Destinater, Co-Pilot etc. (at least with the verions I have seen).

so.. can ya have (say) Ozi & Destinator running at the same time.
And have Ozi moving map on the screen- with the audio alerts from Destinator??

That is incorrect.

The beauty of GPSGate is that more than one application can connect to the same GPSGate shared port.

So GPSGate connects to the physical GPS port and creates a shared port that other apps use.

I have my GPS external so it is on COM1:. GPSGAte creates a shared port on COM7 on my iPaq and I have had Oziexplorer, GPSDash, TomTom and WinCE Navigator all connected to COM7 and running at the same time.

If Ozi is at the front I can still hear the verbal directions from TomTom and if omTom is at the front I can still hear waypoint alarms from Ozi.

Peter

Signman,

I don't use Destinator, but I cannot see why you couldn't.

Although only one application is on screen at a time, they are all active and the sound from destinator should still be able to be heard over the speakers.

Try this.
Load up Destinator as you would normally run it.
Then iconise it (click on the _ button at the top right corner of the application's display window)
Do you still get the audible directions as you travel?
I think you would.

I don't believe you would get audible alerts from destinator as to what is happening on Ozi though if that is what you mean. They are separate applications that run at the same time, but separate from each other.

Any audible alerts from Destinator would be specific to what Destinator recognises.

I haven't tried Tom Tom and Ozi together but much prefer Tom Tom to Destinator. Have used both and far more flexibility in my opinion there.

If you use Oziexplorer at the same time with the 250K Australia map which approaches 700 meg of data in one lump, I am sure it could clog up the processor a bit. Heavy data access as it is. Smaller maps are preferable if you have them on your SD card.

pjchris,

I won't argue the point with you Peter, but that is not how I understand GPSgate to work, or how the GPSgate instructions tell you to configure it.

GPSgate creates multiple virtual (fake) output ports to enable multiple applications to share the one physical input port.

If you have it configured and working differently, good for you.

It would appear that the situation has changed recently. If you are using GPSGate 2.0 or higher you are correct, there needs to be one output port for each application.

I am using the older GPSGate 1.1 and it can have more than one application connected to an output port.

Personally I think the way that 1.1 does it is better as most of the GPS applications I use will connect only to COM 1-8 and of those 6 are already allocated to various real input output ports, Bluetooth, USB, Serial etc.

Peter

Emo, we need to talk (again) ;-)