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creaqte your trip log while you're away on www.poi66.com
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You go abroad for a trip and, of course, you carry your GPS. On arrival on a
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Somewhere like 43°40'34.54"N 92°57'49.12"W for example?
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OK. Scraggy posted a lat/lon location a bit ago, now you. It's nice to
get all touchy-feely with my globe once in a while, but is there an
online map service that will let you plug in lat/lon numbers? Neither
web-searchmaps nor Mapquest seem to.
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You might try topozone:
Looks like Austin, TX, near a train station...
Al Moore
DoD 734
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Yahoo! Maps (Beta) does.
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Tanks, guys. Youse all heart.
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campsite or stop you have a beer and you pull your mobile phone and GPS from
your pocket. You type an SMS text message with your coordinates.
Why should you do this? Because once the SMS message arrives at the server,
your personal home page is updated with a web-search Map, indicating your actual
position. You can add a picture to it, right from your digital camera. The
home fromt sees the little dots on the map, thus creating your trip track
log. Others can sign your guestbook so you keep contact. You can create a
trip log yourself, on the campsite computer or by a quick message in your
tent or hotel.
See how Walter on his Honda does this, 6 weeks long, in peru, Brazil, Chile
and other South American countries:
His map:
See where all other people are:
Once your back home, you add some more pics and others can see your
beautiful trip log. They can download the trail to their Tomtom, GPS or
whatever device it is, to do the same trail. You can fly over the globe
using the web-search Earth link, showing your trip with all the pictures. Set it
to 3D and you fly back to that place where you had such fun.
This service is free, and there's no catch. Just have fun with your bike and
GPS! Site currently in Dutch and English.
Click the register icon in the top right corner. Any trouble getting it
work? Send a helpme email to me, in English or Dutch.
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