[Spridgets] GPS

[soavero@yahoo.com]

we tried it, very, very glitchy. We pitched it very quickly. There's another called "Rally" that did Odo well and average speed up to 10km, then it was just Odo, but it worked great.

Ron Soave

----- Reply message -----
From: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson at thicko.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 20, 2010 7:58 am
Subject: [Spridgets] GPS
To: "'Ron Soave'" <soavero at yahoo.com>, "'Bugeye'" <bugeye at yahoogroups.com>, "'Spridget'" <spridgets at autox.team.net>, "'Larry & Sandi Miller'" <millerls at ado13.com>, "'Guy R Day'" <grday at btinternet.com>

There's a free Droid app called SpeedView. In addition to a nice speedometer
and compass , if you lay it down on your dash, it turns into a heads up
display that reflects on your windshield. It is very cool.

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From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ron Soave
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 7:52 AM
To: Bugeye; Spridget; Larry & Sandi Miller; Guy R Day
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] GPS

--- On Mon, 9/20/10, Guy R Day <grday at btinternet.com> wrote:
> For a figure used by the guy in the street they are as good
> as anything else they use.

I was able to use my Droid's GPS in Newfoundland. It was accurate to the 2nd
decimal place to the odometer intervals provided in the route books that
were determined via a Terratrip. Unfortunately, the full GPS needed access
to Google, and a full time data connection was impossible for that half of
the equation. We did find a good app for odometer that we used most of the
time. The Terratrip is an inductive pickup place on a rotating object (wheel
of trans shaft or whatever) that you calibrate in an odometer run.

Ron
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