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To: nickcarraway

Big deal. I have that for free on my droid phone.


3 posted on 06/08/2010 1:19:52 PM PDT by ParityErr (It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.)
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To: ParityErr
Big deal. I have that for free on my droid phone.

Same here. The problem with this approach is that it requires cellular connectivity. My in-dash nav system uses a DVD map. It only needs the GPS input to calculate a route. The Google approach offloads the mapping/routing to Google. That's fine...if you have the connectivity to keep the maps refreshed. You can probably download a set of waypoints that can serve the navigation operation for the onboard GPS, but it still needs some kind of local base map for that to do the job.

7 posted on 06/08/2010 1:30:15 PM PDT by Myrddin
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