OziExplorer on a laptop

Hello - Something like this should do the trick

USB "MOUSE" GPS

If you decide to get a handheld gps (for greater versatility) make sure it can be used with OziExplorer. Some of the newer models cant or are a real pain.

Cheers
Greg

Any old GPS that communicates using NMEA will do, even a third hand old Garmin GPSII with a lead will do the trick.

beelzebug
Thats not Signmans old puter is it??????

As said re GPS "so make sure it outputs NMEA strings of data"
I pesonally use a mouse GPS, it works for me.
Cheers Colin.

If you don't want to lose satellite lock, look for one with the SiRF III chip in it.

If you can't afford that, don't buy one that has less than 12-channel capability. (My first GPS was 1-channel !!!)

Beezlebug,

Before you commit, be sure of what you are buying.

OziExplorer does not have maps of its own. Digital maps are separate and may, or may not, also be on the Laptop.

OziExplorer is a mapping software program and requires separate digital map data to be linked to it. Something like Natmap Premium (2008 is latest issue) or Hema series of Maps.

I also recomend a USB mouse GPS which takes its power from the Laptop.

The Globalsat BU-353 Mouse GPS is available from the ExplorOz shop for $98 and will give excellent troublefree performance.

Bill.

I use a bluetooth Globalsat BT338 which has served me well for a number of years. It has a Sirf III chipset.
As said about the maps. Got a few free ones, Aust 250K, NSW 25K and 100K but bit the bullet and bought the Hema disk.

Hi mate we have just returned from a 10k trip and two months away and before we went looked at the hema gps at $990 as it had everything I wanted.

So I went to the store and had a muck around with it and found the screen very small and trying to use the ozi functions you had to use the stylus pen which on the move would be a pain.

Ended up buying a 7" GPS with route66 and rear camera input off ebay for #280 del then got a compaq laptop after cash back for $420 the BU353 GPS mouse for $95 and a friend of mine gave me his ozi and hema raster and a collection of 10th,50th maps of vic sa and wa and it was fantastic we found you need the larger screen to see the detail around you especially using the high detail maps.

At first had a problem with vista would get the blue screen of death after a few minutes of switching on the gps but after some research I downloaded a 32bit driver and all fixed.

Thanks to eveyone who has responded. I have learned a lot, and shows how good this forum really is.
Cheers
Gary

Ebay is your friend- i have something similar to this in my 4x4 - just bought some stick on Velcro and popped it on the dash - recharges itself via the little inbuilt solar panel.

The just paired it up to my Laptop ( with built in blue tooth) and away i go - No cables -- if your laptop is not blue tooth ready - then you can buy a blue tooth dongle for a few $$ and put it in your USB post ...

the cable ones are becoming very hard to find now

Boc

ebay link >>>>http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GlobalSat-BT-359-BT359-Bluetooth-SiRF-III-GPS-Receiver_W0QQitemZ180296852580QQihZ008QQcategoryZ34288QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Or a permanent mount external unit.

Globalsat MR-350

I have one of these on my truck mounted behind the cab.

Never had any reception problems.

Will even get a position inside the shed with the doors open.

Cheers
Ross