Tuesday 17 April 2012 at 4:25 pm
Those who haven't bought a GPS yet may see them as unnecessary, or expensive, or just not worth the hassle, especially if the user isn't that familiar with technology.
But believe us, a GPS system would change the way you drive when it comes to unfamiliar destinations, which is important, as that means getting their faster, less reliance on cabs, and even the ability to walk if you're using the GPS function on a smartphone or basic phone with GPS capability.
This is a great opportunity for those who are tired of paying out because they're unsure of where they're going. There's always a few who know the feeling of going round a roundabout for ages, knowing you're near the fuel-empty point.
Not that enjoyable! But now a GPS that can be updated regularly will always know the fastest routes, where the traffic might be found, which roads are no longer open, and which new roads have appeared! Lots of fuel money saved and put into the old partypoker fund without any stress.
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Friday 28 October 2011 at 11:35 am
Many people know that maps for portable GPS navigators can be vector and raster, but not everyone can explain how they differ.
A vector map can be observed only in navigator or computer screen. Actually it is just object list of terrain with coordinates. For example, a bus stop is a point with coordinates and an icon with bus, road is a line with coordinates of every it’s bend, wood is a list of coordinates of the line contouring a large forest called polygon.
This map looks angularly enough, but it is possible to change its scale in very wide limits. Big cities and main highways are shown only in a small scale, quarters, streets with titles and houses with numbers appear at scale increasing.
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Wednesday 21 September 2011 at 6:30 pm
My first portable GPS navigator was heavy, strong and very reliable Magellan GPS 4000XL.
300 gramms of the brick in military style with an amorphous substance instead of glass, on which furrows with millimetric depth grew in 24hours, seemed then a fantasy.
Nobody of my touristic friends had such a miracle, and many of them hardly heard about it.Two-channel receiver released in 1998 terribly lost satellites in wet forest and shallow canyons, but the most part of time it showed exact coordinates and specified directions and distances to any of 200 points stored in its memory.
And it was quite enough to use it. Since then I never wandered in a fog and didn't suffer in doubts at every crossroad of the trip.
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Wednesday 21 September 2011 at 6:03 pm
Portable Navigator Triton 1500 and 2000 with bright 2.7 inch display having resolution 320x240 of pixels.
Combination of compactness and simplicity. Convenient construction.
Handheld Navigators Magellan Triton 1500 and 2000 are the excellent decision for those who hasn't got used to reflect once again, selecting necessary and only right way.
With this best handheld gps it is not necessary to study instructions and descriptions. It was constructed by a principle: "I am always ready to work".Also it is functional enough to solve any tasks laid to it by the user.
You don’t need vector maps any more!
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