Very Small Laptop Recommendations?

Jeffry Smith jsmith at alum.mit.edu
Sat Jul 5 11:42:13 EDT 2003


I haven't tried it yet (since I haven't purchased a GPS system yet), but 
GPSMAN (http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/wGPSMan.html) lists maps in it's 
capabilities.  The debian package is at: http://packages.debian.org/testing/misc/gpsman.html

jeff

mike ledoux writes:
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>On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:49:39PM -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote:
>> Buy yourself a Sharp Zaurus and 512CF card.  Get the serial adapter cable
>> and install gpsdrive.
>
>I had actually considered trying to find a way to use my Zaurus in
>place of a laptop, since I'll be carrying the Z anyway.  My search
>found plenty of solutions that will display maps on the Zaurus and
>keep track of my position/route/etc., but none that will allow me to
>load maps from the Zaurus into the GPS.  I'm not really surprised by
>this, since the GPS uses a proprietary format to store the maps.
>
>The Garmin software runs just fine on my laptop under Win4Lin, but I
>can't imagine there is any way to get Win4Lin working on the Z. :)
>
>Using the Zaurus as a GPS display isn't practical in this case, as
>the Z just isn't ruggedized enough to be handlebar mounted.  Even if
>it were, I think battery life would be an issue.  It'd be a great
>option in the car, where power and space are less troublesome.
>
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