Ofroad GPS

[mr_mike]

What do you use?
now really wanting to spend $1000+ on a HEMA GPS and maps.

Have heard of people buying cheaper China GPS units of ebay then loading the OziExplorer maps on, anyone done this?

Looking for something that will work offroad and can load waypoints into and not wanting to spend stupid money.

cheers mike

[Fozzy]

I got a 7" Gps of ebay from an aussie supplier for about 115 bucks

It runs windows CE I have aquired a copy of OZI to suit. Will let you know how it goes.

[James_2007]

a few people in the patrol 4x4 forum are using bit map app for iphone if u have one.

they say they haven't had any problems with it and it cost $5

[Butcher]

Ive got a garmin 76, only used it once or twice. Was handy for riding deep out in the state forrest.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=169&ra=true

[mr_mike]

what does the ebay gps require to run Ozi Scott? just windows or is there a particular GPS to look for?

[mr_mike]

a few people in the patrol 4x4 forum are using bit map app for iphone if u have one.

they say they haven't had any problems with it and it cost $5

This was my plan orginally and i thought fuck yeh got an iphone lets go, then found out the iphone GPS still uses the mobile providers signal to work so soon as i get 100km out of Perth metro i loose signal and as such no GPS signal.

[Fozzy]

what does the ebay gps require to run Ozi Scott? just windows or is there a particular GPS to look for?

Just needs a windows CE based operating system.

[cplagz]

Buy a netbook, inverter and external GPS aerial

Choose GPS software you like - add OziExplorer/ShonkyMaps .... win?

[mr_mike]

yeh this was another option to buy once of them itab's or what ever they are called, the iPad rip off thats cost about $170 and run android.

But a 10" screen is a big unit to have mounted on the dash specially if i'm gonna be bashing over uneven terrain so would need to be very stury.

[devilfish]

This was my plan orginally and i thought fuck yeh got an iphone lets go, then found out the iphone GPS still uses the mobile providers signal to work so soon as i get 100km out of Perth metro i loose signal and as such no GPS signal.

wrong mate check your phone settings,

i use MUDMAP regularly on iphone pumped to the headunit for huge display.

works a treat out bush, you dont need a phone signal, uses the gps of the iphone flawlessly.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/devilfish303/IMG_6680.jpg

and i use tomtom around town.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/devilfish303/IMG_6678.jpg

plus you get loads of cool apps for off road :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/devilfish303/IMG_6677.jpg

best solution out there, plus its a phone and an ipod :)

[cplagz]

^very cool

Can you pair a Bluetooth GPS recv to an iPhone? to boost the signal?

[devilfish]

^very cool

Can you pair a Bluetooth GPS recv to an iPhone? to boost the signal?

Ive never had a problem with gps signal, however jeep doesn't have a metal roof, if it was a prob id just put the fone in a screen holder. you can buy gps boosters that dont require a bluetooth data connection, they just boost the gps signal locally.

[mr_mike]

i have all them apps already hahaha.

What settings do i need to check on my phone? I've been hearing mixed stories about the iphone GPS some people said it worked fine offroad them someone else told me i need a phone signal for it to work.
Then when i was down Dwellingyup last week my GPS didnt work so i assumed that was right.

[devilfish]

the iphone uses phone tower triangulation and GPS for locating you, make sure location services are turned ON, and use a decent APP that only uses the GPS signal, ie MUDMAP or similar.

GPS signals are incredibly weak, infact if you use a spectrum analyser, you cant see them, they are hidden in the background noise, so positioning of the iphone is critical in hilly or wooded areas, any GPS will struggle if it cant see the sky.

You should never rely on GPS to plot your position.

The amount of times i had to direct US forces who were lost when i was in the forces in the UK was silly ;)

[mr_mike]

yeh i want the GPS more so for tracking where and how far i have been rather than relying on it to get somewhere.

[gt86wa]

Have heard of people buying cheaper China GPS units of ebay then loading the OziExplorer maps on, anyone done this?



Pretty much what Im running. Mine runs OZI explorer for offroad and IGO for the street maps..
Picked it up from Autotainment in burswood, he loaded up a fair few maps for me including Hema's and most of the CALM maps which i find alot more detailed than hema's.
Its a 5" unit and I havent had any problems with it at all, I think I paid around the $400 mark for it.

[mr_mike]

Devilfish: What maps do you run on MudMap? i already have the standard fitted gregorys one and i just downloaded 2 itopo maps one for north east perth area and one for Pinjarra to Collie type area. Seem to have most of the tracks in my tracks and trails book marked on there.

[Cal]

I was tempted by one of those chinese gps units, very easy to load more maps on. However I had purchased the VMS app for the iphone but also found the iphone gps struggling when off road.

I dug out my old iphone 3g, jailbroke it, loaded vms and tom tom on there and also purchased an app that allows the iphone to hook up to a bluetooth gps receiver and bought a receiver off ebay (Linky (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320597008654&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT)).

The end result is perfection, it grabs a very solid signal and does everything I wanted it to do. Pretty simple to do really just searching around on the net and an hour later the phone was jailbroken and then just had to wait for the receiver from ebay.

[suburban]

i got myself a cheap $300 notebook from harvey norman and downloaded ozi - got hema 08 maps and a heap of DEC maps. Also have some 25k and 50k maps of the southwest

this all runs to the front of the R51 where i have a 7" touchscreen mounted above the head unit - perfect height

this has been excellent so far and the bonus is i store all my music and videos on the laptop so i can watch them or have the mrs entertained while driving. All sound is via the aux port

then at camp i can pull the notepad out and use it around camp if need be

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/216933_10150325241782619_775607618_9633102_3283213 _n.jpg

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/308805_10150351901822619_775607618_9925754_1849687 _n.jpg

might buy one of those in dash multimedia centres but im a fan of the large, but not huge touchscreen, even though it looks a bit tacked on