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When it says can be used as a GPS receiver with my laptop, does that mean I can use it to surf GE instead of a dongle, does anyone know please?
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No Phil, its basically a GPS receiver that plugs in to the laptop, you would need the Internet Dongle as well to down load GE. You can use them together. I have a simple usb GPS receiver I can use with my laptop. I did use it the once as an experiment to navigate to a site. :g50:
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Thanks Barry :g50:
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If you have memory map or other mapping software you can whatch your posision cursor move as you do like a big laptop satnav

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Cheers Colin :g50:
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PhilD wrote:The videos on here look impressive :g50: Click Here

I've fix the link Phil it was giving a page error
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Cheers Barry, it looks like it has a button so you can just create way points if you want. Also I've noticed some are advertised in white and some advertised with a blue border, I was wondering if some were superseded models or is the blue border some form of casing?
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I think its a rubber case Phil

Supplied with USB charging cable, rubber material belt or strap mounting case and software on CD-Rom
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Ta, I can see I'm not going to be able to resist getting one :)

One thought I had was if you geo tag an image and want to publish or post it somewhere, can you hide the lat/long reference from the tag? sorry for all the questions.
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I wondered that myself Phil, there are EXIF editing programmes and some image editing software can strip out EXIF data. I seem to remember that Photoscape can do that.
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Thanks, I suppose it might be best to save an untagged copy, will look into it.

I was thinking of putting a .kmz file attachment to go with the Clubs Newsletter showing the Club outing finds and members, instead of it being in the usual .pdf format so the members could take a spin around the field in GE for a change :g41:
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The manual is the document with the word 'suite' in the title;

http://global.mobileaction.com/download ... jsp#Manual
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Going back to the GPS Director, upto 5 find spots can be recorded by the following method as an alternative to writing the number down if say the weather is bad;

Get a box with 5 compartments & label them 1 to 5.

Then select the first symbol (the house) by a single click on the left button. when you make your first recordable find, put it in compartment 1 and long click on the house. The Director should store the findspot under the house symbol for you to see when you get home.

Put your second find in compartment 2, single click the left button will select the skyscraper, long click on this to store the second find spot.

And so on.

To see what the find spots were when you get home, turn the Director on & click on both buttons at the same time & long click on the flag, this will show all 5 find spots.

Long click on the top one (find spot number 1) & it will show the westing reading, note it down. To get to the northing reading on the next page you have to long click on each of the numbers till the next page shows & note down the number.

To get back you need to long click the right button twice. Then select the skyscraper (find number 2) & do the same again.

It's only another way to do it, writing the number down is probably the best way with less chance of anything going wrong.

I've done some accuracy tests, by measuring the distance between the Director readout and fixed objects (telegraph poles, road markings etc) shown on Google Earth and got the following discrepancies in metres;

10, 7, 3, 1, 2.3, 4, 3, 1, 3, 7.5, 2, 2, 5, 2.5, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4.
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Thats not bad Phil, most of the older handheld GPS qoute 5 m as the average accuracy.
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Yes, impressive, it's say's 1 to 5 metres in the manual. :D

I think I'll do some similar tests with my Garmin and see how it compares.
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PhilD wrote:Going back to the GPS Director, upto 5 find spots can be recorded by the following method as an alternative to writing the number down if say the weather is bad;

Get a box with 5 compartments & label them 1 to 5.

Then select the first symbol (the house) by a single click on the left button. when you make your first recordable find, put it in compartment 1 and long click on the house. The Director should store the findspot under the house symbol for you to see when you get home.

Put your second find in compartment 2, single click the left button will select the skyscraper, long click on this to store the second find spot.

And so on.

To see what the find spots were when you get home, turn the Director on & click on both buttons at the same time & long click on the flag, this will show all 5 find spots.

Long click on the top one (find spot number 1) & it will show the westing reading, note it down. To get to the northing reading on the next page you have to long click on each of the numbers till the next page shows & note down the number.

To get back you need to long click the right button twice. Then select the skyscraper (find number 2) & do the same again.

It's only another way to do it, writing the number down is probably the best way with less chance of anything going wrong.

I've done some accuracy tests, by measuring the distance between the Director readout and fixed objects (telegraph poles, road markings etc) shown on Google Earth and got the following discrepancies in metres;

10, 7, 3, 1, 2.3, 4, 3, 1, 3, 7.5, 2, 2, 5, 2.5, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4.
Thats about the accuracy I am getting with mine quite impressive for such a cheap gadget :g50:

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