🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 21:15:04 -0400, Tiny Human Ferret
wrote:

> Beartooth wrote:
>> 
>>         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?

	ca. $400 from REI, not counting software (mostly data) -- which you
also need (at least on your connecting computer;
optionally also on the vista -- some of it). We
justified it as part of moving expenses.

	You get a
special cable from Garmin. One version, to use at
home,  just connects
to the gps and the computer; the other has a third
fork to plug into the cigarette lighter, to keep the
gps from eating batteries -- as it usually does.

> 
>>         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/ !!

	Sigh. Again, are we talking the same thing here? I'm
thinking of maps of hunting trails, hiking trails, and
-- for as long as it takes us to househunt -- streets
& roads.I don't *think* wireless internet access is
relevant to what I'm trying to ask at the moment (WINE
use) -- though I'm interested in that for other
reasons, but less so than in satellite broadband (new
post coming!)

-- 
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
retiree & linux greenhorn running Pan 0.11.2 under RH 7.2
Keep in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.