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In today’s GPS-connected world, travelers have many choices for navigation devices.  Garmin, Tom-Tom, Magellan, and Copilot are just a few of the brand names for the dashboard devices that will guide you down the road.  Even our cell phone (Droid) has wonderful GPS navigation capabilities today.  But, for planning those trips, nothing beats a computer with mapping software like Microsoft Streets and Trips.

Time and Money Calculator

Streets and Trips, running on our laptop computer, has been our guide for all 7 years of our RV travels.  We’re currently on version 2010.  Below is a beginning level video to give you an idea of how easy it is to plan a trip and have the software tell you where to go, how long it will take, and how much you’ll spend in gas.  Traveling in an RV is a completely different story when it comes to time and money, than traveling in a car.  If you know where to change the settings, the software will take this into account.

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GPS Navigation with Netbooks and Droid

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We love GPS systems.  Maybe too much!  All of a sudden we have more GPS navigation devices than coffee cups!  And we can’t decide which one we like best.  So, we’re using them all.

We’ve been using Microsoft Streets and Trips on a laptop since the beginning of our travels in 2003.  Actually, discount female cialis no rx, Buy female cialis no prescription required, the first 2 years it was Mappoint -  S&T’s big brother – but basically the same thing.  See this previous article about that.  A couple years ago, we got a Garmin Nuvi 255 – a dashboard navigation device.  And just a few months ago we bought our Motorola Droid cell phones which includes GPS and a Navigation application for free, female cialis india. Buy female cialis online australia,

Garmin, Droid, <b>female cialis in malaysia</b>, <b>Where to buy female cialis</b>, and Streets and Trips all navigatingThe photo above is what the cab of our Class-C motorhome looks with all three navigation devices.  It’s tough to get a good photograph of this, but hopefully you got the idea.  What you can’t see is that I am usually sitting in the passenger seat with a large print Road Atlas on my lap to keep me grounded in the midst of all these screens, where to order female cialis. Female cialis rx,

Laptop GPS


Jim always plans our travels using Streets and Trips.  Every route we’ve ever plotted is stored on a S&T file somewhere.  It’s so easy to see the entire route (8,174 miles planned for this summer) or zoom in on one spot.  And, sale female cialis, Cheap female cialis no prescription, with the Points of Interest megafile, we are assured of finding anything we want like a Thousand Trails park, buy female cialis online cheap, Order discount female cialis, a Walmart, a Flying J, cheapest female cialis prices, Female cialis no rx required, or a hot springs.

One problem with using a GPS system on your laptop is how hard it is on the laptop.  They are made to be portable, buy no rx female cialis, Buy cheap female cialis online, but I don’t think the constant vibration or the teeth shattering drive on I-10 thru Louisianna was part of the designers’ plan.  We recently purchased an ASUS NetBook – it’s our spare computer since both Jim and I have our own laptops.  We’re wondering if it can do the job of being the Streets and Trips computer.

Testing the Netbook for Streets and Trips Navigation


It’s so small it sits nicely on the center console.We don’t even need to bungie it in,  And it’s so light, I don’t think it feels the bumps and jolts as much as the bigger laptops.  We also don’t need to plug it in because it has 7 hours of battery life.  This is much more convenient than the larger laptop.  Streets and Trips installed just fine on the Windows 7 operating system, and I was delighted when I plugged the GPS receiver into the USB port and our position was displayed almost immediately, buy female cialis without prescription. We have had trouble in the past with the GPS receiver being recognized.  This was a good sign, buy cheap female cialis. Female cialis buy drug, BUT – after using it for a couple 300 mile days – I don’t think the little netbook is going to hack it for our Streets and Trips computer. The screen is just too small, discount female cialis online, Lowest price female cialis, and there’s not enough horsepower to run Streets and Trips well.

  • Screen is too small.  Although everything fits, female cialis order, Female cialis for sale, I just can’t see the route like I was accustomed to with the larger laptop.  Here’s a photo of the screen below.  With all the toolbars at the top, the GPS pane at the left, discount female cialis overnight delivery, Purchase female cialis online, and the next turn info at the bottom – the map portion is pretty tiny.  
    Netbook running Streets and Trips 

  • Not enough horsepower.  I could actually live with the smaller screen if I could click and drag things around quickly.  I can even use F11 to temporarily get rid of the toolbars and sidebars, leaving more room for the map, female cialis pill, Buy cheapest female cialis on line, but the response is just too slow.  Although everything works just fine, the screen refresh takes a long time, discount female cialis without prescription. Buy female cialis without prescription, At one point during our drive, we decided it was time to look for a Walmart.  I selected the option to show all the Walmart pushpins … and waited …. Find discount female cialis online, then I stopped GPS tracking so I could reposition the screen to the route ahead … and waited … I found a Walmart and right clicked to add it as a stop to our route … and waited.  If I hadn’t started the process early enough, we would have been past the Walmart before I finished! 
    Most netbooks come with 1 Gb of memory and the Windows 7 starter edition.  Jim upgraded ours to 2Gb of memory and the Home Premium edition of Windows 7.  We still have a few other things to try, best price female cialis, Order female cialis no rx, but I’m discouraged with this initial test.


Testing the Droid for Navigation


Truly amazing!  We’ve started using the Droid for our navigation around town instead of the Garmin Nuvi.  After all, your cellphone is always with you right?  So, drug female cialis, Cheapest generic female cialis, if you need a GPS, how cool is it to just get out your phone and turn it into a GPS navigation device?  It uses satellite GPS to get your position.  It uses Google Maps via it’s Internet connection for the maps, female cialis alternative. Female cialis without a prescription, It works pretty good.  Jim purchased the optional car docking station – he tells me that he didn’t spend more than $30 for it.  Here’s what it looks like, mounted right next to the Garmin Nuvi.  It can also be mounted horizontally and the map display changes accordingly, find female cialis online. Price of female cialis,

Using Droid for GPS navigationIt didn’t have any disagreements in directions that we noticed.  It’s speaker is almost as good as the Nuvi.  One advantage is the voice recognition.  Jim said in a loud voice, “Navigate to Patriots Point” when we were driving through Charleston.  And, buying generic female cialis, Cheap female cialis pharmacy, it did!  Later I spoke at the Droid saying, “Navigate to Myrtle Beach State Park” and it responded by displaying, female cialis canada, Buy cheapest female cialis online, “Navigate to Royal Beach Skatepark?”  The road noise is a problem.

I’m tempted to say that the Droid can replace the Garmin Nuvi, but I’m sure I will change my tune when we’re in West Texas or Eastern Oregon this summer.  That’s because the maps are displayed on the Droid via the Internet.  It gets the Internet from the nearest Verizon tower.  No tower, no Internet, no roads!  Your position comes from the satellite GPS, so you’ll still see the marker for your position moving around the screen.  But you won’t see the map – so it doesn’t do you much good.

So for now, we need them all.  I’ll update this topic when we’ve learned more.  Meanwhile, anyone else out there using a netbook for navigation?  Or the Droid.

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Thousands of POIs for Streets and Trips

Buy zyban without prescription, Back in 2004, we attended Life on Wheels, a week-long school for RVers. One of the best things we learned was about the Discovery Owners website and all the GPS data overlay files they made avaialble for programs like Streets and Trips, cheap generic zyban. Zyban cheap price, In case you're unfamiliar, this data is called 'Points of Interest' or POI's for short, order cheap zyban online. Find zyban without prescription, The data file needs to have the name of the POI and the Latitude/Longitude coordinates. Then, zyban no online prescription, Zyban without prescription, when you load them into your program, they become markers on the map, buy zyban once daily.

Our favorite file was a listing of all Passport America RV parks, buy zyban without prescription. Order zyban no prescription required, We take advantage of the Passport America half-price deal whenever possible, so, zyban for sale, Zyban vendors, having them show up on our Streets and Trips map that we use when we're on the road is extremely handy.

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Install all POI's then use Show/Hide

All that has changed. You can now get a file with over 200 POI sets, buy cheap zyban internet, Zyban order, all the Flying J's, Cracker Barrels, cheapest zyban, Overnight zyban, low bridges, Thousand Trails parks, cheap zyban internet, Cheap zyban pill, Walmarts, and, buy zyban overnight delivery, Buy zyban without prescription, of course, Passport America parks - just to name a few, zyban online pharmacy. Zyban online without a prescription, All of these sets are in one data file. You can load it into Streets and Trips, then, with a feature new to S&T 2010, you can simply hide or unhide each pushpin (POI) set individually, buy zyban without prescription. At any time you can make one set of POIs visible, zyban alternative, Zyban online sale, or invisible.

Chris in the cockpitThe usefulness of this mega-file and the show/hide feature of S&T 2010 cannot be overstated - we used it all the time during the last month, zyban cheapest price. Where to buy zyban, Jim says, 'We're getting low on gas, zyban sale, Cheap zyban in usa, can you find where the next Flying J is?" I say, "Just a sec" I find 'Flying J' listed as a pushpin set, zyban buy drug, Cheap zyban pharmacy, right-click on it and choose 'show.' I can see a Flying J on our route in a short distance. I can even add it to our route so that Streets and Trips can remind us at the correct exit because I'm bound to find myself spacing out looking at the scenery at just the wrong time, zyban prices. Buy zyban without prescription, Don't you just hate it when your first view of the Fying J sign is in your rear view mirror. Discount zyban, Whenever I feel that the Flying J icons are cluttering up my screen, I can just right-click on the set again and choose Hide, buy zyban from india. Buy zyban generic, If you have Streets and Trips, you can read more about this file, view a short video, and download the file for free at LaptopGPSWorld.com.

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Chris Guld
www.geeksontour.com.

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We can now plan our trip on the laptop with Streets and Trips, cheapest generic armour, Armour for sale, then transfer the locations to our Garmin Nuvi 255W.  As I wrote in a previous post, we like to use both the laptop and the Garmin Nuvi to navigate while we travel.  We recently attended the Hershey RV Show and were thrilled to meet Larry Petersen at the Microsoft booth.  We attended his seminar to learn about the new features in the 2010 version. 

He demonstrated several methods of sharing data.  You can import and export .gpx files, armour uk, Buy armour online without prescription, you can use a USB cable and ‘Send to GPS’, or you can use the MSN Direct service.  I researched our device – the Garmin Nuvi 255W and decided the USB method was the best.  For more information directly from Larry – check out the Streets and Trips Blog, buy cheap armour online. Buy armour lowest price, Here is a short video on the process to send Locations from a Streets and Trips 2010 route to a Garmin Nuvi 255W.  All you need is a USB cable (with a mini 'B' connector that fits the Nuvi) and an Internet connection:

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