| 31 July 2001 | |
| GeoCaching and GeoGraphing:
New HOBBIES for GPS owners. Under: Feature Items. |
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| GPS for the BLIND:
Sendero's talking map system can provide help in USA and Canada. Under: Links to More GPS Products. |
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| 30 July 2001 | |
| Garmin has posted StreetPilot GPS (Americas) software version 2.08. Changes made from version 2.07 to 2.08: Added support for new vendor of 128Mbyte cards. Improved poor satellite geometry detection. Corrected problem with long highway names in Europe that could cause a shutdown. Under: FAQs - Hardware. |
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| Garmin has posted StreetPilot GPS (Atlantic International) software version 2.05. Changes made from version 2.04 to 2.05: Added support for new vendor of 128Mbyte cards. Improved poor satellite geometry detection. Corrected problem with long highway names in Europe that could cause a shutdown. Changed symbol used for rest areas to a dot to avoid clutter. Under: FAQs - Hardware. |
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| Garmin has posted StreetPilot GPS ColorMap (Americas) software version 2.10. Changes made from version 2.09 to 2.10: Added support for new vendor of 128Mbyte cards. Improved poor satellite geometry detection. Corrected problem with long highway names in Europe that could cause a shutdown. Changed symbol used for rest areas to a dot to avoid clutter. Under: FAQs - Hardware. |
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| Garmin has posted StreetPilot GPS ColorMap (Atlantic International) software version 2.03. Changes made from version 2.02 to 2.03: Added support for new vendor of 128Mbyte cards. Improved poor satellite geometry detection. Corrected problem with long highway names in Europe that could cause a shutdown. Changed symbol used for rest areas to a dot to avoid clutter. Under: FAQs - Hardware. |
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| Garmin has posted GPSMAP 182/232 software version 2.04. Changes made from Version 2.03 to 2.04: Improved speed and reliability of AutoLocate operation. Added power-on GPS Information popup page. Removed "Stop Navigation" confirmation message. Improved TracBack waypoint name generation. Added U.S. version of the "Diver Down" waypoint symbol. Show icons for each alarm on the Alarm tab. Added DGPS and Accuracy alarms. Added support for "Other Location" find option on the Celestial tab so position could be selected from map. Made compass and compass tape label backgrounds transparent. Compass page display improvements: Fixed the highlight around the tail of the compass pointer. Changed 360? mark to 000 on compass. Improvements for data fields: Replaced abbreviations in data field titles with full words. Renamed Altitude data field option to Elevation. Added GPS Accuracy to data field options. Corrected the character width for the Off Course data field. Modified the Position data field to select a smaller font if the current grid does not fit in the field. Fixed line drawing problem associated with map-based distance measurement utility. |
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| 27 July 2001 | |
| Garmin has posted USB Programmer Drivers version 2.02. There doesn't appear to be any information about what has changed, but especially if you are having problems with your USB Programmer it could be worth looking into. |
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| 21 July 2001 | |
| GPS Car Navigators:
How good are the maps? What are the limitations? Under: Feature Items. |
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| 13 July 2001 | |
| Garmin has posted StreetPilot III software version 2.13. Changes made from versions 2.12 to 2.13: Added new Safety Feature: Safe Mode encourages attentive driving by disabling certain interactive features while your vehicle is moving. You may disable Safe Mode (to allow a passenger to use these features) on the Safety Tab of the System Setup page. Improved guidance in the presence of roads that only deviate by a very small angle. Improved card access times, resulting in faster map drawing and route calculation. Improved projection of the start position for route calculation. Added recalculating feature that executes if the start position was not projected far enough and the first turn is behind the current position or the user turned before the initial calculation was complete. Modified behavior of disabled maps on the MapSource Info page. Any maps that are disabled cannot be used for routing. Modified off-route detection to not declare off-route if satellite reception is lost for brief periods of time. Corrected roundabout guidance. In some situations the wrong turn guidance was given. Corrected route guidance for ramps that connect to high speed roads at steep angles. Corrected a possible problem with map drawing after uploading maps from MapSource. Added Language tab on the System Setup page to support foreign languages when available. Corrected page update when canceling the delete waypoint confirmation page. Under: FAQs - Hardware. |
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| 12 July 2001 | |
| Garmin MetroGuide II,
Questions and Answers about this coming Map System Under: Feature Items. |
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| 10 July 2001 | |
| Magellan has posted MapSend Streets for the Map 330 v. 1.10. New features/bug fixes implemented: General Some errors have been corrected in message boxes. Distances calculations have been corrected. The application is paused and a dialog box is presented when the CD-ROM is extracted while running the application. A notification message and application will be paused. Some options are now saved between sessions. Redundant columns have been eliminated in the Search by Name dialog. Export If there are problems with reading files while exporting, a message box appears - in 1.00b the export process terminated without warning or crashed. Tracks In the Show Tracks and Clear Tracks dialogs you can see the distance and number of legs in tracks. Now there are no limits for track length (1.00b allows 1250 points in a track). Time and altitude information is processed. Regions Now Upload Regions button becomes disabled when a region is edited. All regions can be selected by pressing Ctrl-A. The number of selected regions is now updated after more operations (renaming, uploading, etc.). You are now able to change case of symbols in names. The amount of unit's memory available for uploading regions is now shown at the bottom of Saved Regions List. Communication with GPS Extended messages appear if errors have occured during uploading (downloading) waypoints/routes. These messages are also written to the log-file. If there is no connection with GPS, the GPS settings dialog appears. (In 1.00b there was so only for Uploading regions.) The application will no longer crash when NMEA messages on the unit are switched on. If an error occurs while up(down)loading a message box appears with a beep. Search by Address Specifying 4-digit ZIP code without leading zero will no longer cause search to fail. Standard abbreviations are now processed correctly (e.g. Street in MN). The th suffix is added when searching numerals (e.g. 100 in CA). A corresponding city name appears when specifying a ZIP-code. Auto-completion for the state selection has been added. The ZIP field is cleared after another state has been chosen. All fields are cleared when state field becomes empty. Waypoints/Routes Now there is no limits on the maximum number of routes and waypoints. Commas are now allowed in waypoints messages. They are sent to GPS using Esc-sequences. Help The context help was added for the Upload Regions, Set Scale, Tip of the Day dialogs. 'See also...' now works in popup help topics (e.g. File|Open...) All broken links have been removed. MAP 330 Related Fixed bug where some streets do not show up on the MAP 330 even though they show up on MapSend Streets. Under: Magellan GPS Revisions. |
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| 03 July 2001 | |
| Garmin Data Cables: What are the Pinouts?
(Updates a broken link) Under: FAQs Hardware. |
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| 01 July 2001 | |
| Garmin GPSmap 76 Marine/Terrestrial Full-Featured Large-Screen WAAS Receiver
- A larger, higher-resolution screen than the eTrex series, WAAS, map and marine
navaid capable, many customizable options, all buttons on the front for easy
access, and features not found on other Garmin units. Under: Feature Items. |
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