More Harley-Davidson Motorcycles Compatible With The Garmin Roadtech Quest
May 23, 2006 bike gps, gps navigation
Garmin today announced that Harley-Davidson is now offering a new handlebar mounting kit for the Roadtech™ Quest™, allowing thousands of additional motorcycles to take advantage of GPS navigation.
The Roadtech Quest will now fit all 1996 or later models (except the VRSCR Street Rod), providing premium road navigation capabilities – including automatic route calculation and turn-by-turn voice-prompted directions to addresses or points of interest like lodging, restaurants, and Harley-Davidson dealers and service centers. Owners of 1998 or later FLTR Road Glide® models must purchase an additional audio cable to make the Roadtech Quest compatible.
The unit contains 114MB of internal memory for loading detailed map information in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The unit is sold with Garmin’s MapSource City Select CD-ROM and a PC interface cable, so riders can customize their map data for wherever they’re traveling.
Rugged and waterproof, the Roadtech Quest can be removed from the motorcycle’s mount and stowed in a pocket for safekeeping. Turn-by-turn audible voice prompts are delivered through the bike’s audio system or an included earbud.
With the Roadtech Quest navigation system, riders can choose convenience and peace-of-mind – built by Garmin, a company that is a respected leader in GPS navigation.
Additional features of the Roadtech Quest include:
* High-resolution 256-color TFT color display that’s easy to see in day or night
* Turn-by-turn voice prompted directions
* Calculates shortest or fastest routes to addresses or points of interest
* Automatically recalculates a route if the rider misses a turn
* USB connection for fast detail map downloads from CD-ROM
* Features an internal lithium-ion battery for on-foot adventures
* Also available with European and Australian map data
Tags: bike gps, gps navigation
Becker announces a new PND: Traffic Assist Highspeed
May 23, 2006 becker, gps navigation, navteq
auto-translated from French:After its first PND, the Traffic Assist, the German mark announces a new PND (GPS Autonome) : the Traffic Assist Highspeed which replaces the preceding model in the range.
This new PND uses a new hull with a better completion, and especially its characteristics were improved with in particular the passage to a chip SiRF III, a battery Lithium-Ion, a new support conveys as well as a faster processor.
Its principal characteristics :
· Processor with 400 MHz, structures CISC
· Touch screen TFT 3,5″65 536 anti-reflecting colors, treaty
· 64 Mo of RAM
· Storage internal flash of 64 Mo
· Port SD/MMC (2 Go Maximum)
· Connector mini USB 1.1
· Connector 3,5mm for external helmet
· Receiver GPS integrated with chip GPS SiRF III
· High integrated speaker of 2 Watts
· Connector for external antenna
· Reader of music MP3/WMA
· Viewer of photographs JPEG
· Navteq Cartography
· Posting of the speed limits
· Management of the stages
· Posting 2d and 3d
· Battery Lithium-Ion ensuring a 4,5 hour endurance
· Dimensions : 12,7 X 8,1 X 4,9 cm
· Weight : 187 G
It is delivered with the cartography of the 27 countries of Europe on a memory board of 1 Go and the software of navigation is a personalized version of Navigon MobileNavigator
It’s a pity that, for the radars, utility POI Warner is still not compatible.
It will be available June beginning at a price which would be of 469 Euros.
Tags: becker, gps navigation, navteq
Who invented the Global Positioning System?
May 23, 2006 gps navigation, military, misc news
…The Global Positioning System has revolutionized our society. It has greatly improved the accuracy of weapons. It has added billions to the economy with its applications in agriculture, trucking and many other industries. Many lives have been saved since hikers and others with GPS devices can more easily find their way to safety. Yet, there is disagreement over who created it.
Many are unaware of the controversy. Thus, readers of the American Heritage Magazine of Invention and Technology learned on page 58 of the Fall 2004 issue that:
[Brad] Parkinson was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May for his leadership of the military project that created the GPS system. Along with Ivan Getting, an early proponent of GPS, and many others, Parkinson helped create a navigation and positioning system…
It all began in 1973, when then Colonel Parkinson, of the U.S. Air Force, was appointed to lead a joint military program to build an advanced navigation system. When he arrived, competing factions from the Navy, Air Force, and other services, each promoting its own technological solutions, were threatening to sink the project. “It was a mess,” he says. His first duty was to find a compromise plan that all the services could support.
Note that Parkinson does not state how much of each service’s technological solution was used in GPS. The magazine does include the phrase “many others”; however, since it does not mention any other individual, the clear implication is that Getting and Parkinson played a more significant role in GPS than anyone else…
Tags: gps navigation, military, misc news
A spare battery for your GPS
May 23, 2006 gps navigation, ipod, royaltek
If you do not want to break down from battery with your GPS but also with your mobile, your reader MP3 or your game console, you can choose the spare battery Mobile Saver. Many connectors are available in order to in particular reload the largest marks of mobile telephones.
On sale at Cricel at the price of 59 Euros.
This spare battery addresses to the users portable products, such as telephone, game console, GPS… It is delivered with a cable on exit jack 4mm for standard game console PSP, GPS royaltek, Globalsat.. a female connector USB to reload the battery of your Ipod, the battery of your reader MP3… Other connectors for telephone Nokia, Sony-Ericsonn, Motorola, jack 3.5mm for portable multi-media apparatus.
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