PC Tablet with GPS and google earth

My wife has a Samsung Tab running Android. The GPS works fine with google maps. I have loaded the Android version of OziCE but that will not work properly

I use an Ipad 3GS Wi Fi which has GPS and a host of brilliant nav apps no to mention Google Earth.

I have used a tablet PC on the dash of the Patrol for years with a USB mouse GPS (on the roof) running XP and OziExplorer/Oziexplorer 3D as the main navigation aid when in the bush, and occasionally Google Earth for fun. Just be aware that if you don't have internet access (Next G, 3G, or something, which you won't when you move out into the sticks) Google Earth wont work. You can get around it by pre-loading all the places you are going to visit so that they sit in GE's cache but forget an area or move somewhere you haven't planed on and your stuffed!

Also Google Earth can be quite poor in many areas with blurred images, GPS tacking less than accurate and roads way off the mark. Much better to have good mapping like Hema or Geo Sciences with something like OziExplorer or one of the other good mapping products out there. And don't forget to have good paper maps of the area you are going to as a backup for when windows spits the dummy or the tablet dies.

Of course if you want GE and a tablet just for fun in areas with good 3G coverage and not far from civilisation then go for it.

Just completed 9,500K through NT with a dedicated Car PC running W7, Centrafuse, OziExplorer and USB GPS, also took a SPOT GPS tracker so friends could keep an eye on us and have fun following us on Google Earth.