Buying a GPS

Hello Patrol22
Do you find the small screen big enough to give you any real detail or overview of your surounding area, I have always thought these may be too small.
regards
Ron

Agree with Patrol22.

OziExplorer (and NATMAP Premium) for Country/Bush travel and CoPilot for voice/display map directions in the Metro areas.

I have been "trialling" CoPilot Live 6 for about a month or so and I am very impressed with it. It was the cheapest of the alternatives I researched but I read an unbiased review of it some time back, so bought it to try myself.

Not knocking the other products as I haven't tried them, but CoPilot 6 does the business it was designed for.

I haven't experimented a lot with OziExplorer on the PDA yet. I have been used to it running on a Laptop but SHMBO found it a bit intrusive, even mounted between us. Of couse, if I was doing some serious mapping, out comes the Laptop again.

The only "negative" I've discovered so far is that CoPilot uses a full display area and you cannot "Minimise it" to view other applications.
I get around this by starting OziExplorer first, then CoPilot if I need it in the metro area. After clearing the suburbs, I shut CoPilot down and Ozi has been tracking the Route "in the background" all the time.

Patrol22,

Does the Asus Mypal share the GPS input with both applications at the same time?
I use GPSgate on my PDA.

Hi Sand Man i have lates ASUS A639 much the same as the old 636.
And i cant run Destinator 6 and OZI ce at the same time.
Even been to the guys at GPSOZ said it wont work.

Rob

Yeah Ron the 3.5 inch screen is OK for me and shows enough of the map to orientate yourself fairly well. This is expecially so when using oziexplorer as this particular pocket pc can be switched from portriat to landscape mode and in conjunction with the touch screen buttons works very well.
CoPilot give you enough of the map as well as the voice guidance. To everyone their own but the ASUS MyPal works for me.

But like Rob S says you can't run ozi and the street maps together....this is not a problem with the computer but rather a software thing with CoPilot which doesn't allow access to the main computer menus....guess it's the same with destinator. The Garmin machine running ozi and garmin maps will allow this but it's quite a bit more expensive.

Rob,

Noticed after a search that the ASUS A639 uses Windows Mobile 5 Operating System so GPSgate can be loaded on it. GPSgate is configured to match the input port with the physical port on the PDA then it sets up a virtual port for all applications to share, so you can run multiple applications and input the GPS signal to them concurrently.

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Thanks Sand man i will give that a go.