Sat, 07 Mar 1998 18:07:53 +0100
- Message No. 2314
From: Jorn Ronnow
Subject: Re: It may sound crazy but...
At 10:29 98-03-07 +0100, Richard wrote:
>Considering GPS III from Garmin:
>
>I did some homework and asked some US-dealers if they can deliver the
>Garmin GPS III with european maps...
> Garmin will not allow US dealers to sell the european version.
> I suspect it is because our marketplace is much more competitive over
> here and they are trying to keep the euro dealers margin up.
Yep, that's the reason I've heard also. That means that the GPS III is
about three times as expensive than the GPS II in practice, since you can
buy the GPS II for the US price.
I'm settling for an cheap variant of GPS map, by uploading waypoints for
places along the road. Doing this, you won't see any roads, of course, but
you'll get a rough idea of where you are. Some time in the summer, I hope
to have a database from which you can select places (e.g. "all towns within
50 km of a certain route, bigger than 50000 inhabitants + all town within
200 km, bigger than 200000 inhabitants" etc, etc).
For the moment, I only have 'raw material' for Sweden, so if anyone out
there has a reasonably comprehensive database with coordinates and sizes
for most towns in any other country, please mail me! I intend to make a
shareware program for route planning.
Keep sliding
-Jorn

dipper@normans.isd.uni-stuttgart.de