What I Did on My Vacation, or, Memoirs of GPSing.

[bkbroil]

Jake Richards of Aximsite.com has posted a great story/review of using GPS and his Axim X5. This is a nice read of what really goes on with setting up your PPC and car for a GPS navigation system. Do you have a similar setup? What are you using?

Equipment:
· Rental Car (Ford Mondeo)
· Axim X5 Advanced with 512Meg SD card, 256Meg CF card
· Seidio G2500 mount (windshield suction cup mount with swivel base)
· Haicom 303 MMF GPS receiver with external antenna
· Power cord to Seidio mount
· Cables for serial connection between Haicom and Seidio mount and from Axim to Seidio audio input
· One “sticky” leather pad for the dashboard to keep GPS from slipping around
Software:
Mapopolis 4.42, installed on SD card with latest UK maps (NC version) installed on CF card
Summary
Travel with GPS is delightfully simple and easy, but you do have to learn the software and hardware you plan to use in advance, do some planning each day (or night, for the following day) and you do have to keep an eye on what it is trying to tell you to do, not follow it blindly. However, GPS does give you a peace that no matter where you go, you aren’t really lost and can always find your way to where you want to go. Remember the six “P”s - proper planning prevents poor performance. Do some planning, some homework, practice with it a bit and GPS can make your vacation travel much more pleasant overall.