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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

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Planning a trip to the Amazon or perhaps a "three hour tour?" If you're the nautical type, the Lowrance iWay 600C which includes a marine navigation mode, complete with point-to-point navigation and satellite images, is worth a look. The Magellan CrossoverGPS is geared toward campers, hikers, and hunters, and also has an optional marine mode. The Mio Digiwalker H610 has pedestrian and bicycle modes. Finally, the Novogo S700 offers off-road navigation, so you can track your route and get back to your starting point in areas that are unmapped. (Or maybe you just don't want to be found.)
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People into outdoors activities will appreciate handheld units, such as the Garmin iQue 3600, because they go right from the dashboard and into a pocket, offering guidance for hikers, bikers, and boaters. However, driving with a handheld is difficult because the unit will either slide all over the dashboard or get propped up in a cup holder. And it's best to have a passenger along to operate it because the small interface is difficult to use while driving. A 12-volt adapter is useful for keeping the batteries from draining during long drives.
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When first turned on, a GPS receiver starts listening for satellite signals. On the "satellite display" here, the numbered satellites appear somewhere in the sky. The middle of the diagram is directly overhead, and the smaller circle is halfway up (45 degrees). The horizon is the large circle with four compass points: N, S, E, W. Signal strength is also shown for each satellite.

Use your mapping software as a training aid. Download your track to create a record and compare distance, elevation gain, etc., with other outings.
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Lots of interesting articles from today's PC World. First up, Microsoft Takes on MapQuest: "MSN launches MapPoint online mapping service, offering maps, directions, and more."

Apparently this is going to be yet another component of MS' push for .Net services with hooks into other MSN services. MapPoint is XML-based, which makes it interesting in other ways, and there it launches with a phone-based direction service. The articles notes that this is another step towards location-based services. "For example, you might someday be able to click on a Windows Messenger buddy's name and retrieve a map showing the location of his or her home."

Good or bad? You make the call. I like parts of this, but I'm incredibly wary of .Net.

Qualcomm's Vision of the Wireless Future "When he finished, there were 20 brand-new, CDMA-based mobile handsets and devices arrayed on the table, the high-tech souvenirs of Belk's most recent trip to Hong Kong and Japan.... 'These are not PowerPoint slides,' Belk said. 'These are real devices that are already shipping in volume in Asia.' " at Business 2.0]

And there's the rub. When I do my presentations, that's all I have - pictures of prototypes or of devices not available in the U.S. Europe and Asia really are 18 months ahead of us in this area.

"Beale also discussed Qualcomm's gpsOne location technology.... It also opens the door for many new location-based services, such as traffic information and local weather forecasts. On Japan KDDI's network, there are already more than 20 location-based services available -- all of which are relatively inexpensive, costing less than $5 per month."

I'm looking forward to being able to travel and have information come to me automatically based on my location. For example, if I'm at a conference and I'm looking for a restaurant, I'd like my phone/PDA/whatever to know where I am and offer a list of nearby choices. Maybe it should tell me what movies or plays are on tonight and if there are still tickets available. You get the idea....

"Predictably, both Belk and Beale anticipate strong growth for the wireless industry as ever-more-compelling products and services become available and the industry settles on a single communication standard. How long will that take? Belk, whose career began in the personal computing business in 1983, likened the wireless industry today to the PC business of the 1980s. 'I wouldn't worry about the wireless industry yet, it's still relatively young,' he said. 'Just look how long it took the PC industry just to get to the point of standardized parallel cables.' "

Not to beat a dead horse, but the ebook industry is even younger than PCs, and PDAs have really only come into their own during the last few years. So don't count any of these technologies out just yet.

Global Positioning Systems offer everything from hole overviews to Internet access "Shortgrass Technologies' Internet-based sports information system and financial ticker enables golfers to check college football scores on a Saturday afternoon or the price of stocks any weekday. Global positioning systems can track golf cars no matter where they are on the course, thus discovering bottlenecks and slower play. Golfers can order beverages and food en route to the turn, so golf clubs can offer more than a quick hot dog - a higher priced chicken sandwich, for instance...."

I always thought that GPS would go mainstream in automobiles first, and in a way I suppose it has, but maybe golfers will lead the real charge. I could have used a portable, library-centered GPS system myself to navigate the Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library when I was there last fall!