Apparently the TomTom software for mobiles is only good for in Europe (not the devices, just the mobile phone software)leek wrote:Thanks all... Show's you how out of date I am or how thing have changed... <br><br>
I was expecting to spark a Garmin vs Magellan fight, but instead got Nokia, BlackBerry, TomTom, Palm...
As for mobile phones, Garmin and other GPS companies are going to be putting their own GPSr that are mobile phones out to market in the next 3 to 6 months.
Garmin released some teaser screen shots today
Also people will cope with mediocre if it does everything, compared to really super duper single purpose devices. A mobile phone these days can do video camera, still camera, gps, mapping, web, and of course calls
You could just get a bluetooth keychain GPSr, which would "upgrade" the accuracy on your phone without a new device, these are 50-100, dunno what a repair would cost, or it could be the map co-ords are wrong too, so the phone might be right but the map isn't. Find a survey marker that is close by (and it's co-ords) and get the GPS co-ords out of the phone, TrekBuddy is usually good for this.I have the Nokia 6220, but haven't tried to use it for caching... It's accuracy is a little worrying as it frequently advises me to do u-turns because it thinks I'm on a road 30m away... Maybe I should just get my old battered Magellan Meridian repaired...
The diff between WGS84 and DGA94 is about 1m and aussie survey locations usually use DGA94.