[W126 Coupe] GPS Recommendations?

[flakeymail-benz at yahoo.com]

Good recommendation, Gary.

http://gpsinformation.biz/phpBB2/

is the same folks new forum address, it's a good source, and for some  
reason there is now no direct link from their main page.

alex


On Mar 8, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Gary Green wrote:


> Not certain if this was already mentioned...

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> http://gpsinformation.net/

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> From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes- 

> bounces at mbcoupes.com]

> On Behalf Of Shayegan, Richard

> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:52 PM

> To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists

> Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] GPS Recommendations?

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> If I could piggy back off this thread, I too am looking for a GPS  

> unit with

> a special interest in small handheld units that can log locations  

> (so that

> it could be both a nav system, a general gps, and a logging device  

> for me to

> later metatag my photos with longitude/latitude info).

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> Thanks,

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> Richard

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> From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com on behalf of flakeymail- 

> benz at yahoo.com

> Sent: Thu 3/8/2007 1:39 PM

> To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists

> Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] GPS Recommendations?

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> Howdy,

> garmin rave on:

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> I love my garmin quest 2, it's windshield mount and goes from car to

> car without needing any goo on the dash.

> it can't mute the stereo/bluetooth but it only talks when something

> interesting is about to happen so I turn it up if/when i need to hear

> it.  In practice, I find that by having time or distance to next turn

> displayed while en route, i have a good idea of when i need to pay

> attention.  Not sure if tomtom lets you customize your display as

> much, all the hardcore-geeky gps units form garmin like quest 2 let

> you modify the 4 or so extra data fields you see while en route to be

> any of the 30+ fields available, including time to next turn, dist to

> next turn.

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> road warrior qualifications:

> the quest 2 was enormously useful on my 10k mile quasi

> circumnavigation of the us the xmas before last, and will be on board

> my rental car next week for trip to paris, frankfurt, bremen,

> hamburg, back to paris all by car, and it will be using the same maps/

> software license i bought for my garmin gps V back in 1999.   luckily

> they hardly ever build new roads over there.  and, i'm not  afraid of

> change :)   i guess i still use the old maps simply because i can, i

> really should update as i'm in europe 1-2 time a year and i usually

> find my best non-stop fare to the continent and then drive around to

> where i need to be.

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> Last year I worked a contract job for 3 months in d.c. area, used the

> unit every day for finding food, gas, avoiding crazy ass tolls there,

> etc.

> Among my favorite features is "find along route", once you are in

> navigation mode you can find points of interest, etc, near your

> route, awesome for long long interstate drives and also for finding

> decent food/coffee between hotel/work.

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> garmin rave off, not affiliated, yadda yadda,

> can't imagine relying on some windows software (laptop/ppc) for

> navigation, by the way.   Had a navman running on ipaq for about a

> week, returned it.

>

> alex

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> On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Dick Spellman wrote:

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>> Hi MBCoupes types:

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>> I am ready to retire the XP laptop/usb to GPS solution I've been

>> running

>> for the past few months with Microsoft Streets & Maps.  Works well

>> enough but, with the new laptop and Vista OS in hand I think it

>> time to

>> just put a GPS gadget on the dash or wherever.  I don't want to spend

>> the $ for yet another docking station for the new laptop to sit in

>> the car.

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>> I am looking for a GPS that ideally mutes the Bluetooth radio/sat

>> receiver when ready to announce an instruction and that's about  

>> it.  I

>> use a Plantronics noise canceling earbud for the PPC (a Cingular  

>> 8525)

>> so no need to duplicate the phone.  If there are any road warriors  

>> out

>> there, what are you using or have you used and what's good or bad

>> in the

>> world of GPS?  Also, have any of you tried and liked PPC/Bluetooth

>> to GPS?

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>> I don't care about talking books or MP3s just need decent navigation

>> with a mute command to the sat receiver so i can hear any  

>> instruction.

>> The phone simply vibrates the earbud in my shirt pocket holder and

>> that's simple and works.

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>> I've seen some good and some really bad reviews of GPS so figured

>> maybe

>> someones got some experience and can chime in.  I've looked at the

>> TomTom and Garmin lines from a 1/2 dozen websites including

>> crutchfield,

>> tigerdirect, tigergps, cnet and ebay.   I've read the reviews and

>> remain

>> confused.

>>

>> Hoping for a few ideas.

>>

>> Dick

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