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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
the company is DeCarta, they made the technology used in Google maps, and it's a similar application to that. there is a map in the page (like google maps) and a search function and you can search for a business / service or a location.!
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Sounds excellent. We have a Garmin GPS which we use while biking, which we then interface with Google Earth Plus vis USB port so that we can show our route(s) on Google Earth. We can save our routes and send them to friends.
We also have another make of GPS in the car, which is needed in this bridge entrapped, mayhem traffic bottlenecked city.
An over-the-airways way of keep up-to-date with the latest routes (i.e. avoiding constrution, seeing new roads, even avoiding accidents) would be fantastic (buying upgrades to existing maps can get expensive since as soon as they are made they are out-of-date). The devices get input from about 12 satellites to triangulate (multiangulate/pinpoint) your exact locaction but it'd be interresting to know how the new info (routes/pointes of interest/businessess etc.) would get downloaded.
Thanks for the heads-up, looking forward to the news release and am very proud of you for having any part in it.
