New GPS STUFF way cool!

[lilredxj99]

http://spatialminds.com/

This is awesome. I'm thinking about getting this and a RAM Mount for my laptop. Way cool to have something that has the USGS TOPO maps and SAT imagery, and the ability to see it.:cool:

Thought this would be great for the "Old Farts" and the ones like me that hate trying to look at that itty bitty screen on my handheld.:D

Software - $39.95
GPS antenna USB - $36.95

The RAM Mounts are big bucks though...:( $150+

[pirate_over50]

And then 29.95 for each state or region?

[Don]

This still requires a laptop?? :confused:

My Garmin has the Topo Software on it and on my laptop. I have a ram mount in the Little Jeep, if I desired, all I need to do is plug the Garmin into the laptop and the information on the GPS will appear on the laptop monitor basically making the laptop monitor a copy of the GPS screen with live tracking and all. I have done this on pavement as it is pretty cool. However, I would never do this off road unless I just wanted to watch my laptop die on the trail.

I did see a guy one time that had an old laptop that he rehabed secured and running in the back of his Jeep. He had the GPS & software going like above, EXCEPT he had an external 9 inch monitor hooked up to laptop and mounted to his dash..... it was way cool. However, I don't think his laptop lasted long.

[Paul E]

I believe panasonic makes a rugged laptop designed for bad conditions...

But I don't have room for a laptop anyway. :). Would be great in an XJ.

[Catdaddy]

There are plenty of the new Mini laptops out there for around $200 if you a willing to get a refurb!

http://www.ecost.com/Detail/Notebooks/HP/FT315UARABA/49954948.aspx?navid=155442127

http://www.ecost.com/Detail/Notebooks/HP/NY188UARABA/49531574.aspx?navid=155442127

[admar2]

There are plenty of the new Mini laptops out there for around $200 if you a willing to get a refurb!

http://www.ecost.com/Detail/Notebooks/HP/FT315UARABA/49954948.aspx?navid=155442127

http://www.ecost.com/Detail/Notebooks/HP/NY188UARABA/49531574.aspx?navid=155442127



a mini would defnitely be the way to go.

[pirate_over50]

I believe panasonic makes a rugged laptop designed for bad conditions...

But I don't have room for a laptop anyway. :). Would be great in an XJ.
Yep...it is the Panasonic Toughbook. EXPENSIVE!!

[blackcherryxj]

Toughbooks are amazing. If you don't need very much CPU requirements, look at the CF-27. It should meet your needs for a few hundred. Look on Ebay.

Paul

[Catdaddy]

I am telling you the best thing about a mini is that most have a solid state hard drive and that means it can run while moving on the trails going over bumps and such. It won't ruin the hard drive. A tough book is only tough until you damage the hard drive. Then its a tough paper weight.

[lilredxj99]

Sorry, didn't see the map packs...

Even then, I have the same GPS as Don, and it's VERY spotty in the woods... especially w/ foilage. Maybe it has to do w/ the metal roof.

I was looking for something that had a better antenna, and I was trying to figure out how to mount it in the wrangler also... I think a vertical mount running down from the sport cage and being positioned over the shifter would probably work.

Maybe I could get the guy at spatialmind to do a deal on IL, IN, KY, TN, Or just a multistate package for 3 or 4 states....

I wonder if the GPS antenna wouldwork w/ the Garmin TOPO program?

[pirate_over50]

Sorry, didn't see the map packs...

Even then, I have the same GPS as Don, and it's VERY spotty in the woods... especially w/ foilage. Maybe it has to do w/ the metal roof.

I was looking for something that had a better antenna, and I was trying to figure out how to mount it in the wrangler also... I think a vertical mount running down from the sport cage and being positioned over the shifter would probably work.

Maybe I could get the guy at spatialmind to do a deal on IL, IN, KY, TN, Or just a multistate package for 3 or 4 states....

I wonder if the GPS antenna wouldwork w/ the Garmin TOPO program?

Go for a package deal for IAJ members!!!!!!! :)

[lilredxj99]

I've been looking at my MAPSUORCE TOPO, guess what? There are no maps of fire roads, trails etc through the national forests... These maps cost about $200 for the complete US set. Iwould have to buy the central and the east. East would cover most of you guys/gals on here, but me being in IL and wanting to go over to MO I would have to buy Central also.

I have some printed USGS maps of the Shawnee NF, but at $6.00/each and the number of maps it takes to get the complete set, I may be better off buying something digital.

[pirate_over50]

The tablet you see being used in the ad is this...
http://www.tabletkiosk.com/tkstore/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=35&idproduct=218

A little on the steep side for me..

[lilredxj99]

I was looking at a Dell mini w/ a solid state HD... a little over 300...

I've got an email into them wanting to see a detailed screen shot of LBL just to the SE of T-bay. (Turkey Creek Cemetery)

And one in the Shawnee NF at Trigg Lookout Tower. I want to see the difference between the MAPS they're using and the Mapsource TOPO.

I have a couple of SNF trails in my mapsource, and there is nothing on the map, but my tracks. On my USGS maps most of the trail is there. I'm hoping this thing will work, also trying to see what kind of deal they may possibly work.