🚀 go-pugleaf

Beartooth wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:
> >
> > For simple mapping tasks, ESRI's ArcExplorer (Java version)
> > runs under Linux.  ArcExplorer 4 even has an installer and
> > instructions for Linux, although the installer is probably
> > targeted at people who have used that same installer for other
> > ESRI products on other Unix systems.  Anyway, AE4 works well,
> > albeit with limited features.  The biggest limitation is that
> > it doesn't alter the projection of the data.
> 
>         I'm so clueless I can't even tell if we're talking about
> the same thing!
> 
>         I have a Garmin etrex vista GPS. I'm trying to use it,
> *not* to navigate (well, hardly ever), but to record points and
> routes I already know, and occasionally new ones I discover in
> the process.

Oi! How much does one of those things cost, and how do you connect it to the
computer? 

> 
>         I interface it (under W98, alas!) with the following:
> 
>         Garmin's own MapSource Topo and MapSource Metroguide
>         DeLorme TopoUSA 3.0 and 4.0
>         DeLorme 3-D TopoQuads (TN)
>         National Geographic Mid-Atlantic USA (really Topo!)
>         Maptech Appalachian Trail (the Virginias), which includes
>                 Terrain Navigator
> 
>         I then manipulate this data, as best I can manage, to
> study it, to print it out, and to email it or (mostly)
> screenshots of it to others.

Oi, see http://www.wardriving.com/ !!!



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