GPS / Street navigator

Thanks for the advice

Robin - mate of mine has been trying to get hold of an in car GPS unit that displays maps and at same time (ie on same screen) Speed and Odometer/distance travelled. There are a number of GPS units that do this but their screens (and the numbers) are too small to read clearly in the car. Currenty he is running a Magellan XL (big screen with Dast topo - good maps) and a Garmin 60cx with the large number screen.

So - I get the impression the 276 maybe what we are after - there are no shops here (unless I drive to perth 200Ks) that stock it so chasing your opinion on how good the 276 is. Screen looks great - assuming speed and odo can be display over map? Are the numbers big enough to read easily when driving? Will shonky maps work on it?
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
Cheers
Greg

Greg

With the 276c , its screen only a centimeter larger than the XL's at 3.8 inch , but its quality, resolution and brightness and significantly ahead. In terms of dots it has approx 4 times as many and about twice the brightness.

The value of this for me is that I need to use 1.5 magnifying glasses to focus close in and they bring the screen up and because of the resolution nothing suffers so readability is great.

There are multiple ways to display the numbers you refer to both as overlays and beside the maps.

I chose to use mine my displaying the map with 4 overlaid variables 1 in each corner. I like to show car voltage speed position and ETE.

As overlays they are not quite as readable as the option to display them with a white background on one side of unit.
When watching my speed I use this mode - as I can drive and just read numbers without glasses.

You can also display 4 variables of your choice only across the whole screen and here they are so big you can read from well outside the car.

UNlike most others the 276c has two distinct modes of operation an Automotive mode and a Marine mode which can together deliver some 10 definable screens.

I switch mine between auto with city navigator and marine with Shonky maps on it which I prefer over T4A because of the contours which a easier to read for me.

Robin Miller

Thanks Robin - sounds like its the GPS he has been looking for. Good thing is my mate gets to pay for it and I get to play with it!
Cheers
Greg

If you put waypoints and a route into Oziexplorer it will give you voice commands. But you need to preplan.

Also, :o)

I have the Asus 636 PDA with co-pilot and Ozieplorer CE, and has built in GPS.
Friend has HP PDA with external GPS aerial.

Mine works well except I can not run both programmes at the same time on my PDA, while he can.

What you need then is Franson GPSgate. Allows multiple programs to share the one virtual port.

I run Oziexplorer and CoPilot on the Dell Axim PDA at the same time.

The only "problem" I find is that you need to start Oziexplorer first. CoPilot takes up the full screen and you need to close it to access Ozi.

With just Ozi running you can access the switcher bar to swap to another application without shutting it down but not so with CoPilot.

TomTom is even worst. It will not share anything with another program, even using GPSgate, therefore I now use CoPilot as a preference.

Thanks sandman.

Did try gpsgate.

Didn't work.

Got onto copliot tech help and they agreed it wouldn't work.
Yes, the problem is copilot.

What version are you running?

CoPilot 6 works very well with GPSgate and other programs.

TomTom Navigator 6 is the dog that won't behave on mine.

Thanks,
I am running early ver 6 and an upgrade is available.

Might try it.

Just wondering on the 276C, do I just put my Oziexplorer jpg file & the associated map file on an SD card & choose the right mode on the 276C & it will work just as in oziexplorer?

Thanks
Richard

Hi Richard

The 276c uses vector maps only - not Ozi types - also doesn't use SD card but its own proprietry type

Robin Miller

Ahhhh - great to see the page back up!

New address? Looks good.

Why pay $40 when it's a free download , also you should try Shonkymaps it's also a free download.

The freebee doesn't have as much detail as the one you buy.
But thanks for the comments you've made up my mind for me. the tracks I've been on that aren't on this data base or any other for that matter, I'll keep for myself, I wouldn't want people like you out in the places I go to. Hope you can find your way home from the carpark. If it ain't scratched it ain't been bush.

I don't understand it's the same program.
What makes you think I only travel on the blacktop and you drive on tracks that your the only person in this world that can
Maybe it's best if you did buy the paid version, as least it only shows tracks that only AWD can go on