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RobMiles  
Programming, gadgets and life as a lecturer in a UK university.

MapPoint and Pocket Streets Tips

Just downloaded Pocket Streets into my Smartphone. Surprisingly useful. A big chunk of the North of England came in at around 9 Megabytes of memory. I wish I'd managed to get this to work before we went to London. The view is of course very small, but the fact that you can search it and find places is very useful. The zoom is a bit slow (perhaps this is because I've put such a big chunk of england in it) but overall very useable.

I've also been playing with MapPoint and my GPS device. Works OK in terms of telling you where you are, but it is not a portable navigation system as such. However, if you add Advanced GPS, which you can find here, it may be. For a mere 10 dollars this seems to add direction giving abilities to MapPoint, as well as allowing you to set the baud rate for your GPS device (something which the very stupid MapPoint program will not let you do). I've not used it in anger yet, but if it does what the web page says it does it could be very useful.

posted on Friday, August 20, 2004 3:34 PM by RobMiles

# @ Monday, August 23, 2004 7:36 AM

Ho hum. But the spelling checker liked it.... Anyhoo, I've figured it out. It is to do with (as are many things in this life) marketing. No point in having a huge swimming pool, stadium, TV cameras, commentators to ask the athletes how they feel when they win/lose, scoreboard etc of you just have one race and then shut the whole thing down. We have to have backstroke, breast stroke, medley (which I reckon should include a saxaphone solo) and the like to make it worth building the whole thing in the first place...

RobMiles

# @ Monday, August 23, 2004 5:55 PM

I couldn't find a mention on the page of how you could use the device in anger; I'm sure it's there, I just don't understand the technology enough to see it. I'm curious now, will you spell it out for us Luddites?

epiNole

# @ Monday, August 23, 2004 6:40 PM

MapPoint is the Microsoft Mapping and route finding tool. It is wonderful by the way, and much more than just a way of finding your way. The Advanced GPS program is an add-in for the MapPoint program. You install it and then, when you create and follow a route it gives directions (which MapPoint won't do). I haven't tested it properly yet, because I've not got a key through, but when I have I'll post more.

RobMiles


 
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