The official newbie's "Hello" topic

[xavierchan]

yoyoyo... :P newbie in the house.
xavier reporting in. well, just started to use GPS recently.

[acaimoza]

yoyoyo... :P newbie in the house.
xavier reporting in. well, just started to use GPS recently.

Hii xavierchan,

aboard the MfM ship.
Everybody are friendly here,

[acaimoza]

[xavierchan]

sharktits, I think you are "predictable"... lol! around me, not much people using GPS as I know... well, but... tell me if you want to tell me who you are lo. :P

anyway, wondering if there any more Penangkia in this forum? Hmm...

[soi]

saper2 di Melaka bila kita nak mengeteh (minum teh) sama2

[ppfoong]

Just purchased a nuvi 255w 2 weeks ago, and still figuring it out.

Have posted some of my exploration and findings about the device here:
http://voyager8.blogspot.com/search/label/GPS

Any contribution I can make? (just provide me a link if there is existing article about how to contribute to MFM and I'll figure it out)

[zamad]

Here's a link that would keep you busy for a while: http://www.malfreemaps.com/viewforum.php?f=28

[reformist101]

Hi. NKOTB here. Finally I just make it. My gud fren suggest to me to join here. I'm a land surveyor. With strong GIS capabilities. Haha.. Kira boleh la. An ardent user of Garmin XT powered with HP iPaq. I'm already make a contribution in here. I think our regional mapper here can confirm that.

I wish to contribute more towards more free maps and POI. Just like the minister in India said, "Data is like oxygen, you don't pay for it!". I am a vivid Mapinfo user. So most of my data are in .tab format.

I don't know how to convert it into a MapSource format. Hope somebody in here can help on it.

I think that's all for my intro. Keep up the noble work bro!

[mrmuvin]

Hi everybody ..new comer here..from Merlimau,Melaka.. tqvm

[dwhittall]

Hi there, I am a 54 year old 'Brit', married to a Filipina (7 years), living in Cebu, Philippines, having both left Hong Kong in May 2001.

I retired early as the relatively low cost of living in the Philippines, allowed me to do so.

The Nokia N95 8GB mobile phone is fantastic as it does so much, and so many applications available. Whilst it does indeed have internal GPS, I also bought an external Bluetooth unit - WinTec, G-Rays 2, WBT-201. The reasons are many, but reliability, accuracy and ability are the main ones.



To use the internal N95 GPS, you have to open the slider, then activate a suitable Tracking Program (Nokia Sports Tracker, or GPSed). It can take a LONG time (>10 min?) for the Nokia N95 GPS to synch with available Satellites. The WBT-201 unit, remembers the GPS fix, and does a 'warm start'. So unless the battery has gone flat, it only takes 3-5 mins to get a 'fix'.

The WBT-201 can be positioned to give clear unobstructed view of the satellites, whereas the Nokia N95 can sit on the dashboard, if you want to read it. Position it to be convenient to use, and it not optimal for receiving NMEA data from satellites.

I was not keen on strapping my Nokia N95 to the handlebars of my Yamaha XT225 either where vibrations might damage it and a sudden downpour might kill the N95 if rain gets in. So much better to strap thethe tiny weatherproof WBT-201 to my Motorbike - feeding the NMEA Data (or just storing it, for access later), to N95 for viewing on Google Maps - which has just been upgraded to V3.2and is now fantastic to use.

The other areas, where the external Bluetooth, WBT-201, G-Rays 2, dedicated GPS 'logger', is superior to the internal Nokia N95 GPS, is not just speed to get a fix, or accuracy, but the ability to configure the tracking points to be acquired by i) Time interval, ii) Distance travelled, iii) Angle deviation from existing bearing, or combination's of these, and there is 'Auto-Pause' where it does not collect any data if below a certain speed (so when stationary or just looking around, it is not logging data, that is often inaccurate anyway). This means for example you could have it set to collect every 10 seconds, but if you travel more than say '5m', iot will get new GPS data, and also if you change direction by say 1 Degree, than new co-ordinates collected. This is lot better than simply collecting every 1 second to get good tracks.


Google Maps 3.2
The latest version comes with many advance features. The concept of layers in this version allows you to view many layers of information on your map at the same time.

Now you can interact with geographic content, like public transit, traffic (with incidents!), local search results, Latitude friend locations, Wikipedia much more easier and useful than before. More information on this release is available on Google Mobile Blog.

Google Maps for mobile Layers is available now on Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile phones, and will come soon to other platforms. The upgrade is available for all countries where Google Maps for mobile is currently available. To get it on your phone, go to m.google.com/maps.

I am new to Mapping and have recently loaded GARMIN Mobile XT on my Nokia N95 8GB and keen to improve Digital Maps of the Philippines, especially Cebu.

David Whittall

[msport6747]

hi everyone,i'm rosdi aka msport from bandar kinrara,puchong and so glad to be part of MFM community.i just got nuvi750 and still learning about this gadget and one thing i know for sure that this gadget is awesome.
currently not much i can contribute but i'm hoping to learn many thing from otai's and sifu's in this forum,tq.