Use of Sony Clie for maps

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Originally posted by Jdtpumps
Been contemplating this. My county maps fill a milk
crate. Anyone try this? Is it practical for the multi day
trips? I always go the route less travelled, and although
I don't mind getting a little lost, I still like to know
where I am. BT

Have you thought of GPS ...Garmin 60C or 60CS with a handlebar mount?
The unit is expensive and only has built-in memory, but it holds something like 56 meg.
I have used an older Black and White unit from Garmin but it's memory capacity is too small to go for more than a day with detailed county maps.
Motorcyclist are using the Street Pilot 3 and the newer 2620 and 2610 units. I understand the 2620 has a small hard drive and holds details of the entire US. 2610 uses standard memory cartridges that can hold up to 2 gig. The Steet Pilot has Garmin proprietary memory modules. All these units take 12 volts to run.
There is also a PDA version that works as a GPS that has a Garmin number.

JDTPumps said:

Been contemplating this. My county maps fill a milk
crate. Anyone try this? Is it practical for the multi day
trips? I always go the route less travelled, and although
I don't mind getting a little lost, I still like to know
where I am.

I've also been contemplating this, fooled around with
it a bit but haven't figured out the best
resolution/scale to use.

I've got an NZ90 with a 512 mb cf card, so I've got lots of
room for maps, especially if I dump the MP3s I've got stored
in it...never listen to those anyway since I got my iPod...

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Been contemplating this. My county maps fill a milk crate.
Anyone try this?

I would argue the better solution is a good display GPS
with topo maps on a DVD disk/laptop where you back up the
GPS data to.

My palm pilot went for a swim when I tired an unscheduled
eskimo roll in the kayak and it never did really recover.

Oddly enough I don't miss it enough to replace it. - best

Andrew "he who has the least obvious technology is the
coolest" Price

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Quoted message said:

Been contemplating this. My county maps fill a milk
crate. Anyone try this? Is it practical for the multi day
trips? I always go the route less travelled, and although
I don't mind getting a little lost, I still like to know
where I am. BT

Get a GPS. I use a Garmin e-Trex Vista and have the
Mapsource CD. I used to have all of Pennsylvania downloaded
to a street level (moved to another, much larger state that
it won't hold every county). Bike mount is great, and when
it gets sweat dripped on the face, I just rinse it off under
the sink - it is completely sealed against water to a couple
of feet. Batteries last for about 8-10 hours (NiMH
rechargable AAs or whatever you can get at the convience
store in a pinch).

The downside is that searching for a street isn't as easy as
it could be, and sometimes street names don't show on the
somewhat small display. But the routing features more than
make up for these minor problems.

Eric

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Quoted message said:

Been contemplating this. My county maps fill a milk
crate. Anyone try this? Is it practical for the multi day
trips? I always go the route less travelled, and although
I don't mind getting a little lost, I still like to know
where I am. BT

I have a iPaq 4155 with a Socket Bluetooth GPS receiver.
Receiver goes nicely in the back jersey pocket and still
picks up the signal. You can get a rubber casing for the
iPaq at MobilePlanet.com that I just mounted to the stem.
It's shockproof, waterproof, etc. I use Ostia software
which works pretty well for the US - not so sure if they'll
have Euro maps done in time for my trip to Italy/France
this summer...

-a