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Old 04-06-2005   #3 (permalink)
beakmyn
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Originally Posted by lincomatic
BTW, if you are truly interested in navigation, you should get yourself a different GPS. The eTrex outputs NMEA only once every 2 sec, which causes unacceptable delay for realtime navigation. Perhaps this is why Ostia was showing a lost GPS signal once/second... maybe it expects data once/second like most NMEA GPS's put out.
Thanks for the info. The 2 seconds wasn't too bad it Ostia was more accurate then Pocket streets was. Then again I was traveling on familiar roads.

The map disappearing was a major bummer along with relentess dialog. I've been reading some more reviews and I'm starting to lean towards TomTom 5 packaged with it's Bluetooth GPS. That way I can still wardrive with my laptop and the Etrex.
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