Craig Miller
Title Sponsor
 | | 03/31/2009 3:24 PM |
 Alert | We'll be making a press release tomorrow, but here's the teaser YouTube video describing the latest version of Overland Navigator. The product is designed for anyone interested in vehicle dependant backcountry exploration such as offroaders, campers, RVers, hunters, fisherman, geocachers, hikers traveling to/from the trailhead, wildlife biologists, etc. Please feel free to share the video and spatialminds.com with friends, club members, etc. | |
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Jay Erickson
Member Sponsor
| | 03/31/2009 4:40 PM |
Alert | Looks good.
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Traded in all my project vehicles for my 2009 Xterra, not an ounce of buyers remorse. | |
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Brian Rutherford
| | 03/31/2009 4:48 PM |
Alert | Miller Creek, Miller Meadows... Funny... | |
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Craig Miller
Title Sponsor
| | 03/31/2009 4:56 PM |
Alert | Posted By Brian Rutherford on 03/31/2009 4:48 PM Miller Creek, Miller Meadows... Funny...
It's the Rubicon Trail. I didn't plan it, but was definately amused by it. 
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Nathan Henson
| | 03/31/2009 6:36 PM |
Alert | I really like the auto-hide feature for the menus. I run Garmin software right now, and while I get a good amount of map on the screen it would be nice to have less clutter. I also like the auto load feature for the gps tracks when the card is inserted. The google earth images are cool too. Best of luck with sales. BTW what is the going rate for the current software and what is the coverage area? | |
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Craig Miller
Title Sponsor
| | 03/31/2009 6:59 PM |
Alert | Thanks for the kudos guys. The Software is $39.95. Most regional map packs are $39.95. US 100k map pack is $99.95. Satellite Imagery is $29.95. All products can be bought through my website or Amazon.
We have map coverage for WA, OR, CA, AZ, UT, & CO at 24k. The entire US at 100k. The entire globe at 1000k -> Global Scales. New map packs are getting added all the time. ID is next.
The satellite imagery has no relationship to Google Earth. It is false color Landsat imagery.
Complete details can be seen at http://spatialminds.com (or you can ask more questions here).
Craig | |
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Andy Hough
| | 04/01/2009 7:56 AM |
Alert | | To me, $80 for the software and a map pack is a good deal. Your software seems to be very feature rich and extremely easy to use. | |
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Alex Kogan
Member Sponsor
| | 04/01/2009 8:49 AM |
Alert | | Man I wish I didn't spend $160 on National Geographic Topo this Jan. I got 4 states (CA, NV, OR, WA) for that money because of their promotion but I like you interface. | |
1992 Montero overland eqpt
1997 Land Cruiser family mover (it's alive!) | |
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Craig Miller
Title Sponsor
| | 04/01/2009 9:32 AM |
Alert | Thanks Andy. Our primary focus is on creating a topographic GPS product that is feature rich but intuitive. It's nice to hear that this is important to end users like yourself.
Craig
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Craig Miller
Title Sponsor
| | 04/01/2009 9:33 AM |
Alert | Posted By Alex Kogan on 04/01/2009 8:49 AM
Man I wish I didn't spend $160 on National Geographic Topo this Jan. I got 4 states (CA, NV, OR, WA) for that money because of their promotion but I like you interface.
Me too!
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AJ Lightfoot
| | 04/01/2009 9:51 AM |
Alert | Craig,
I'm so excited about this. I just went out and bought my new windows base computer and got it all setup. Now I just need to get the money to buy the software and build my Ram-ish mount. Haha. The new features are really legit and it's better than any other software i've been looking at so far.
Thanks for putting so much work into this. Let me know if I can help out in marketing it.
AJ | |
98 Discovery I - The Master Chief - KF7DCD
"Did that kid just drop a pretzel? I like pretzels. I really like pretzels." | |
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Andy Berglund
| | 04/01/2009 9:53 AM |
Alert | I too am looking forward to a platform that I can run this on. Congrats Craig on moving this forward!
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Dave Waters
| | 04/01/2009 10:12 AM |
Alert | | Craig...That's a really cool setup and looks easy. Question...I have the Garmin 500, can I load your gps software into it? Now assuming everything is PC related, can it work on a Mac? I'm still new to all this gps stuff and am sure have a tonload of more questions. | |
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Craig Miller
Title Sponsor
| | 04/01/2009 10:50 AM |
Alert | The software loads onto a PC running Windows XP/Vista. It doesn't load onto your GPS. The GPS is connected to the computer, but the only thing it does is to tell the PC *where* you are. The PC takes over all the functionality that you've been doing on the GPS.
Most people use a low cost USB GPS receiver to provide the lat/lon signal rather than an expensive Garmin/Magellan/Lowrance unit. It will work with any GPS that supports NMEA out (See your manual). | |
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Alex Kogan
Member Sponsor
| | 04/01/2009 10:52 AM |
Alert | | I don't think it will work on Garmin. Magellan on the other hand has windows CE underneath I believe. I know people unlocking those and using thme with OziExplorer. So it might work being Windows application. |
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1992 Montero overland eqpt
1997 Land Cruiser family mover (it's alive!) | |
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Craig Miller
Title Sponsor
| | 04/01/2009 10:57 AM |
Alert | Unfortunately, Windows software doesn't run under Windows CE. The software will only run on Windows XP and Windows Vista based computers (possibly older versions of Windows as well, but they are untested/unsupported).
Craig | |
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Alex Kogan
Member Sponsor
| | 04/01/2009 11:06 AM |
Alert | Posted By Craig Miller on 04/01/2009 10:50 AM
Most people use a low cost USB GPS receiver to provide the lat/lon signal rather than an expensive Garmin/Magellan/Lowrance unit. It will work with any GPS that supports NMEA out (See your manual). Which most of Garmin Navigators don't do. Only some of handhelds output NMEA as I found out. Guess you can try to persuade it to work vi gspGate I'm not sure. I got myself Globalsat BU-353 for that purpose. Works very well with NGTopo | |
1992 Montero overland eqpt
1997 Land Cruiser family mover (it's alive!) | |
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AJ Lightfoot
| | 04/01/2009 11:10 AM |
Alert | Alex I have the very same GPS receiver via USB. Really nice unit.
I also just bought a Acer Aspire one Netbook. It's perfect size for what I need.
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98 Discovery I - The Master Chief - KF7DCD
"Did that kid just drop a pretzel? I like pretzels. I really like pretzels." | |
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Alex Kogan
Member Sponsor
| | 04/01/2009 12:13 PM |
Alert | | Craig one thing wasn't clear to me. Can one draw a route, add desired waypoints without GPS at the desired location? | |
1992 Montero overland eqpt
1997 Land Cruiser family mover (it's alive!) | |
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Craig Miller
Title Sponsor
| | 04/01/2009 12:17 PM |
Alert | The goal of this version is to replicate existing GPS functionality which doesn't usually include creating tracks. Since it runs on a PC, you can create tracks with any program you want, save them to disk, and Overland Navigator will automatically detect that they are there and display them. We'll be adding track editing in future versions.
Craig | |
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