[Spridgets] GPS

[Wm. Severin Thompson]

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.

-----Original Message-----
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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