GPS Software

[Eric Payne]

There's a GPS unit in my new phone, which is also a Windows Mobile 6 computer. Presently, I can use TomTom or iGO for "turn by turn" directions, but I'm looking for software that will follow me, and map my route, when I'm on Gilligan. iGO tracks, but doesn't map route, and doesn't give a total number of miles... just gives an average speed from start point to end point, based on time spent tracking... and gets confused when start and end points are the same point.

Any suggestions?

[Dennis Tracey]

Smile and laugh, I know you want to....

[David Long]

There's a GPS unit in my new phone, which is also a Windows Mobile 6 computer. Presently, I can use TomTom or iGO for "turn by turn" directions, but I'm looking for software that will follow me, and map my route, when I'm on Gilligan. iGO tracks, but doesn't map route, and doesn't give a total number of miles... just gives an average speed from start point to end point, based on time spent tracking... and gets confused when start and end points are the same point.

Any suggestions?

Many cell phones come with GPS tracking capabilities, but you'd have to pay an extra fee to get access to see the tracking on the cellular provider's web.

[David Long]

Any suggestions?

Here's a link to the Sprint/Nextel GPS services:
http://nextelonline.nextel.com/en/services/gps/gps.shtml

[Eric Payne]

All great suggestions (and yesterday, I went to the same B&N, on Gilligan, looking at GPS books), thanks.

But what I'm looking for is existing 3rd party software that would work. I have TomTom 6, but it doesn't really "track" by following miles and creating a map. Nor does iGO. Instead, they simply give present location. I'm looking for something that once I create a start point, and an end point, will give a reading of mileage covered with an average speed.

Oh, and at B&N yesterday, when I entered, I was told: "We did receive the new policy." So no one had a problem with my coming in. A few employees, however, did find the sudden need to begin restocking aisles I was in, then suddenly having something to do in another part of the store, leaving the cart from which they were restocking in the middle of the aisle. I didn't say anything... just, sometime, I'll be in there at the same time someone in a wheelchair is, I'll glide into the same aisle as the wheelchair, then when they do their little "aisle blocking" trick, I'll glide around it... and let the person stuck in the aisle in the wheelchair raise hell with them.

[polo_pro]

Here's a link to the Sprint/Nextel GPS services:
http://nextelonline.nextel.com/en/services/gps/gps.shtml

I'd go with Mologogo if you have sprint/nextel. This is a much cheaper solution built on their IDEN data network. By going through one of their subsidaries (Boost Mobile), you can lower your data costs substantially and get real time tracking via your mobile phone. I utilized this extensively in my long distance glides.

ps - Eric, seriously, explain to the employees that you intend to video them with your phone. And once they understand that you've attracted the attention of high level executives and the legal staff, you'll see alot less of this behavior. If you want to be fair, you may want to discuss this plan with your contacts in B&N's upper management so they're aware that their directive isn't being followed (and continued ADA violations are occuring). There is a certain irony where B&N is concerned about your segway blocking the aisles, yet their most junior employees seem intent on using this tactic with their book carts!