Where can we find GPSMap?
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> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Marco Mailand
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:27 PM
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] GPS for Newton
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> > I'd be interested in hearing more about GPS for the Newton.
> In principle any GPS will do, as long as it gives you the data on a serial
> port in the NMEA format (4800 baud,8,N,1). Nice to have would be RS232
> output (a bare GPS receiver board has mostly only TTL output
> which has to be
> transformed into RS232 by a level shifter) and a battery buffered clock.
> Also nice to have is 12 channels or may be more as well as a handbook with
> commands, especially commands to set the position acquistion time
> interval.
> This is normally 1s but if you plan to use GPSmap it is recommended to use
> less frequent updates. About 2 or 5sec is already very good for
> GPSmap on a
> MP2k1. And there's another amazing thing: The memory bug -10061
> might cause
> GPSmap to crash, if its private bug fix isn't enabled. With bug fix on
> GPSmap becomes as slow as it is on a MP130. But on a non-upgraded
> MP2000 the
> 61 bug doesn't exist and the bug fix must thus not be enabled and on these
> machines GPSmap will run on its full speed.
> I don't know much about the Teletype program but remember, that it needed
> its own card format and that it is not possible to create your own maps.
> You're forced to buy them (for a dead platform from a possibly not
> interested dealer).
> For GPSmap you can scan your own maps and you could even create
> vector maps
> (small!!!).
> --
> With best regards / Viele Gruesse
>
> Marco Mailand
> http://slsbd.psi.ch/timing
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