Gps

[xboxit]

I am hopin to get one of these, thanx

 

[Squidge]

So whats the difference between this kit, and a standalone gps receiver wired up to plug into the ext port?

There's not much difference in price - a standalone gps receiver is normally around the £80 mark, and this is the same and has a nice RTC as well for a bonus, but I'm just thinking of people who don't want to open there GP32's.

 

[Tobriand]

Well, I suppose you could use a chatboard (as long as it were set to UART0) at the same time with this solution, whereas you'd have trouble with ports with an external one.

Other than that...

 

[Squidge]

Both UART's come out of the bottom connector I believe, so it would just be a matter of someone making a splitter cable, although that's easier said than done

However, I can only see one practical use for the GPS at the moment. We simply have not got the storage or data required for a full route planner, but we could use it for a cheap speed trap detection. For the £180 cost however, I think I'd prefer a smaller dedicated device.

Anyone else found any uses?

 

[Steve-O]

Anyone else found any uses?

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It will be able to tell you the time and date wont it?? But hey, My Watch can do that so I dont realy need that function.


Speedcamera detector sounds cool, but I would rather put hte extra towards a proper one so I know it will work 100%

I dont think there will be that much use for it (But maybe Im wrong)..

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

If you could put it in the car with good route planning software, I think it would go down a storm. Myself I'm always getting lost, and having some sort of device telling me where to go (No pun intended) would be kewl....

Oddley enough, I got into a taxi the other day, and was putting my GP32 into my handbag when the driver said "You know you can get a GPS thing for those now". I didn't have a clue what he was on about until he told me.

I wonder if it will be able to tell me when I'm close to a shop that has a half price sale on LMAO.

Clare.

 

[kknd_cf]

If you could put it in the car with good route planning software, I think it would go down a storm. Myself I'm always getting lost, and having some sort of device telling me where to go (No pun intended) would be kewl....

Oddley enough, I got into a taxi the other day, and was putting my GP32 into my handbag when the driver said "You know you can get a GPS thing for those now". I didn't have a clue what he was on about until he told me.

I wonder if it will be able to tell me when I'm close to a shop that has a half price sale on LMAO.

Clare.

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wow that's interesting, I wonder if he's on the forums