On 11/14/2010 3:47 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:

Anyone have one of these who can copy the map card and send it to me? Or
as a file?g

I have a Nextar X3-03. You DO need the maps on an SD card. If you want
to mail me your SD card, I'll copy the map files. No assurances of it
working of course, but what can it hurt? BTW, Nextar is a **** GPS. Only
thing mine does well is tell me within a car length or two if I'm off
route on city streets.
NO map updates from Nextar. And worst of all, since I use mine a lot for
yard sales, it takes up to 5 minutes these days to get a decent lock on
the satellites. Even then, it'll biff and lose signal off and on for up
to another 15-20 minutes. But for a freebie, hell, go for it.
I'm pretty sure you know your way around Taft well enough you don't need
it, and if yours shows the same problem mine does, it should finally
have itself sorted out by the time you reach an area you need it.


Jon

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:04:12 -0800, Jon Anderson
wrote:

On 11/14/2010 3:47 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:

Anyone have one of these who can copy the map card and send it to me? Or
as a file?g

I have a Nextar X3-03. You DO need the maps on an SD card. If you want
to mail me your SD card, I'll copy the map files. No assurances of it
working of course, but what can it hurt? BTW, Nextar is a **** GPS. Only
thing mine does well is tell me within a car length or two if I'm off
route on city streets.
NO map updates from Nextar. And worst of all, since I use mine a lot for
yard sales, it takes up to 5 minutes these days to get a decent lock on
the satellites. Even then, it'll biff and lose signal off and on for up
to another 15-20 minutes. But for a freebie, hell, go for it.
I'm pretty sure you know your way around Taft well enough you don't need
it, and if yours shows the same problem mine does, it should finally
have itself sorted out by the time you reach an area you need it.


Jon

Anyway to copy the files to a zip file and then email them to me?

If not..Ill send you a chip if Imy buddy cant find the original.

Thanks!

Gunner


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Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate
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On 11/14/2010 4:48 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:

Anyway to copy the files to a zip file and then email them to me?

If not..Ill send you a chip if Imy buddy cant find the original.

I spent over 10 minutes trying to ZIP everything up, only got half way
through. I'm pretty sure most of the files are fairly well compressed
as-is anyway. Watch your gmail, I'm going to start trickling files to
you in sizes that should pass through OK.


Jon

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:04:12 -0800, Jon Anderson
wrote:

On 11/14/2010 3:47 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:

Anyone have one of these who can copy the map card and send it to me? Or
as a file?g

I have a Nextar X3-03. You DO need the maps on an SD card. If you want
to mail me your SD card, I'll copy the map files. No assurances of it
working of course, but what can it hurt? BTW, Nextar is a **** GPS. Only
thing mine does well is tell me within a car length or two if I'm off
route on city streets.
NO map updates from Nextar. And worst of all, since I use mine a lot for
yard sales, it takes up to 5 minutes these days to get a decent lock on
the satellites. Even then, it'll biff and lose signal off and on for up
to another 15-20 minutes. But for a freebie, hell, go for it.
I'm pretty sure you know your way around Taft well enough you don't need
it, and if yours shows the same problem mine does, it should finally
have itself sorted out by the time you reach an area you need it.


Jon
The one I have isn't even any good for telling me if I'm off route.
Only thing it's good for is a moving map, telling me where I am. Dead
accurate at that task, even if it doesn't have a clue where half the
roads in Canada are.

On 11/14/2010 6:46 PM, wrote:

The one I have isn't even any good for telling me if I'm off route.
Only thing it's good for is a moving map, telling me where I am. Dead
accurate at that task, even if it doesn't have a clue where half the
roads in Canada are.

I bought a low end TomTom. It gives voice directions but doesn't read
off street names. It's worked very very well, but I bought the
Australian map and left it with my wife. This turned out to be a really
good thing as her son's starting to move up in cricket and she's having
to take him to games at places she's never been to.

One cool think about the TomTom is downloading alternater voices. I
found the Ozzie Osbourn voice file and it's a crackup.

"I-i-in 2-2-200 yards, y-y-you have reached y-y-your fooking destination"


Jon