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I'd like to get some recommendations on detailed map vendors. I am familiar with the DeLorme series but I read mixed reviews on their Atlas/Gazetteer series on Amazon. I'm looking for detailed maps for Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming if that makes a difference in your reply. TIA. Dick Snyder : I'd like to get some recommendations on detailed map vendors. I am familiar : with the DeLorme series but I read mixed reviews on their Atlas/Gazetteer : series on Amazon. I'm looking for detailed maps for Idaho, Montana, and : Wyoming if that makes a difference in your reply. In light of your previous post about recharging laptop batteries, you might consider Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS. Here's a link to S&T with an upgrade GPS unit based on the latest SiRF Star III GPS chipset for $100. http://semsons.com/is3usbgpssii.html -Bob Thanks Bob. Several people have recommended GPS to me. I am having a hard time getting past a laptop in my wife's lap while we drive. How do you deal with this? Dick > : I'd like to get some recommendations on detailed map vendors. I am > familiar [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > -Bob >Thanks Bob. Several people have recommended GPS to me. I am having a hard >time getting past a laptop in my wife's lap while we drive. How do you deal >with this? Depends on what you are driving. There are several commercial applications. Jotto is one. You can Google for it. Also, Google for laptop vehicle mounts and you will get a lot of alternative solutions. Primarily it depends on your type of vehicle.  SignatureFrank Tabor I see I should have mentioned that this will be a rental. Sorry to mislead you. >>Thanks Bob. Several people have recommended GPS to me. I am having a hard >>time getting past a laptop in my wife's lap while we drive. How do you [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > laptop vehicle mounts and you will get a lot of alternative solutions. > Primarily it depends on your type of vehicle. >I see I should have mentioned that this will be a rental. Sorry to mislead >you. A better bet for you might be a mapping GPS. They can be had for less than $300, quite often with auto-routing capabilities. Most likely the mapping won't be as detailed as the Gazetteer, which I really like. Someone did post either here or in rec.outdoors.rv-travel in the past few weeks about a homemade laptop desk that mounted in the cup holder. A search should turn up that thread. SignatureJon JPinOH > Thanks Bob. Several people have recommended GPS to me. I am having a hard > time getting past a laptop in my wife's lap while we drive. How do you deal > with this? When we are into map-reading situations she drives while I navigate Regards, Barry >Thanks Bob. Several people have recommended GPS to me. I am having a hard >time getting past a laptop in my wife's lap while we drive. How do you deal >with this? I loaded her genealogy stuff on the laptop along with all the mapping and GPS programs. She does genealogy stuff while we go down the road with the maps and GPS running in the background in case she thinks I'm lost or wants to check my speed. FWIW, my Toshiba Satellite runs fine on a small 400W inverter that fits nicely under the seat with the laptop and cell phone chargers plugged in. I have the Garmin Etrex Vista, but I find that the small screen and the cumbersome menu system is useless when driving. The Etrex Vista is good for hiking and for locating my vehicle in a very large shopping center (the kind you go in one door and when you exit another, you'd think that it was the same one. However, I opted to load MS Streets and Trips (with the supplied GPS, although I found later that I could use the Garmin) into a notebook. I picked up a Jotto clone which I mounted in my van and it works well - easy to see where you are and is easy to navigate. When I use my motorhome, I just set the notebook on the console in the front and have the GPS unit on the dash right at the windshield. I've also used the notebook & GPS in a small Mazda. In that case, since I had missed a turn and was somewhat lost, my wife held the notebook on her lap. I did get the 12-volt power adapter that goes with the notebook (in this case it's an HP, but I did the same with an older Compaq Armada). H >>Thanks Bob. Several people have recommended GPS to me. I am having a hard >>time getting past a laptop in my wife's lap while we drive. How do you deal [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >fits nicely under the seat with the laptop and cell phone chargers >plugged in. >Thanks Bob. Several people have recommended GPS to me. I am having a hard >time getting past a laptop in my wife's lap while we drive. How do you deal >with this? About a year ago I bought a Garmin 2620 to replace my older Garmin III+. The 2620 does routing, voice directions, locates points of interest, etc., without the need of a laptop. Sits unobtrusively on the dashboard, right over the steering wheel. I have a laptop, but there's no way I'd want to use it while traveling. I have enough gadgets on my console already. With the 2620 I don't need it. I love this thing. It ain't cheap, but it's worth it. I use it all the time and would be <ahem> lost without it. GB in NC >>Thanks Bob. Several people have recommended GPS to me. I am having a hard >>time getting past a laptop in my wife's lap while we drive. How do you deal [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > GB in NC Welcome back GB <g>. Stay outa trouble now, ya hear <vbg>. Hugh >About a year ago I bought a Garmin 2620 to replace my older Garmin III+. >The 2620 does routing, voice directions, locates points of interest, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >GB in NC GB, glad to see you back. Welcome! Larry SignatureSawgrass Gone fishin' in the Everglades > I'd like to get some recommendations on detailed map vendors. I am familiar > with the DeLorme series but I read mixed reviews on their Atlas/Gazetteer [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Dick Snyder ..."detailed maps".... If you want to get the lay of the land and see lakes, ponds, trails, etc, you'll need topographic maps. I've been happy with DeLorme's Topo series on my PC. I recently bought National Georgaphics "Back Roads..." topographic maps from Sam's Club for about $30. These maps are pretty good, work with Macs & PCs, and with GPS on both. The NG maps don't have much in the way of automatic route planning but seem sufficient for travel in rough, outback terrain; dirt roads and trails are shown. The NG maps are raster scanned so take a bit of storage space (10Gb). Dave |
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