PC to car navigator integration
Alan Browne
route on my TomTom (aka: the G-D piece of crap). Editing on its small
screen was a pain.
What I'd really like:
1. Use a computer program, or Google Maps or Earth to do the detail
route planning.
2. DL that to the in-car navigator with a USB drive or by WiFi. (Eg:
start the engine, start the GPS, it automatically looks to my WiFi (by
IP), and is told if there is a fresh route (or routes) waiting - if so,
it automatically DL's that route.
3. Such interface should be open standard.
4. As a variation, route planning on a laptop with upload of the route
to the in-car navigator.
Marvin Hlavac
> the in-car navigator.
Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010 is excellent choice for that.
http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/microsoft-streets-trips/2380-review-microsoft-streets-trips.html
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Marvin Hlavac
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Alan Browne <alan....@ThereIsNoFreelunchVideotron.ca> writes:
> 1. Use a computer program, or Google Maps or Earth to do the detail
> route planning.
>
> 2. DL that to the in-car navigator with a USB drive or by WiFi. (Eg:
> start the engine, start the GPS, it automatically looks to my WiFi (by
> IP), and is told if there is a fresh route (or routes) waiting - if
> so, it automatically DL's that route.
Sadly Google's navigation on their android doen't do this. I'm
surprised, because one of the greatest advantages of android phones is
that one can edit email contacts, (with phone numbers, address etc) on a
real computer from the gmail web pages and have it sync to the phone.
Typing all that crap in from the phone would be totally unworkable.
The closest I've come is to set the destination waypoint by setting a
new contact in gmail, adding an address and then have the phone pick a
route to that contact. It still doesn't allow fine route control
remotely. Someone should put that in as a feature request.
One amusing failure google navigation for phone is that the routing
database is clearly not generated from the same database as the map
tiles. Routing to "home depot, fremont, ca" will print the correct
address on Icehouse Road. It will, however, route you to a spot almost
2 miles to the southwest. Using it for serious routing before it
matures a bit more is probably a mistake.
-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
If the airwaves belong to the public why does the public only get 3
non-overlapping WIFI channels?
Peter H. Coffin
The n�vi with MSN Direct do some variation of all of this except 3
(AFAIK). Routes and waypoints created on Bing maps can be sent to the
n�vi either OTA via the Direct datastream or over a USB cable to an
attached GPS. Works fairly well. The drawback being that MSN Direct is
going away in two years.
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Alan Browne
>> 4. As a variation, route planning on a laptop with upload of the route
>> to the in-car navigator.
>
>
> Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010 is excellent choice for that.
> http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/microsoft-streets-trips/2380-review-microsoft-streets-trips.html
Oh good. I guess I need to update Streets and trips. Need to check how
to pull the data into my TomTom (or replace it as well).
Wayne R.
I've been hoping for something similar - but a lot simpler - to have a
car audio unit that could likewise look over a WiFi connection to
update/upload the music library from the home storage to the mobile
HDD or even SSD.
But even just a simple aux jack still isn't standard.
Maybe once Android gets further along, it might be able to gin
everything together.