🚀 go-pugleaf

RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger wrote:
> 
> 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!)

Seriously, see http://freegis.org/

As for WINE, it will probably work just fine for almost anything. It is
highly contributed to by people whose main interest is high-performance
video gaming, so graphic-heavy stuff is likely to be well-supported. 



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