[nylug-talk] OT - city wide GPS question???

[Ajai Khattri]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Bob Mariotti wrote:

> I am a big fan of gps gizmo's in my car.   But, as one who has a 
> relative newly relocated to the Big Apple, I was thinking that a helpful 
> gift might be a handheld gps device geared towards the pedestrian.
> 
> I saw advertised recently one by Mio, the digi-walker H610.  It claims 
> that it is a combo mp3 player/voice/video GPS unit for the person "on 
> the go".
> 
> Therefore, as most geeks are gadget gurus, someone must have some 
> experience with city aware gps's.   So, if ANY of you reading this have 
> experience using hand-held gps for finding and walking directions, 
> please commend.  
> 
> Current services such at hop stop certainly allow one to plan out the 
> public transportation, but once in the area, its not much help.  Also, 
> the POI database for the area would be a great convenience.

Funny, Ive been looking at similar solutions. The most portable ones Ive 
found are the Garmin nuvi range (a lot of Radio Shack stores have these). 
They come preloaded with street maps but some of them allow you to augment 
that with data on SD/CF cards.

What's stopped me so far is the prices - expect to pay somewhere between 
$400 and $600 for a decent unit...


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Aj.
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