Archive: May, 2008

Custom Icon & Voice - Garmin for Tweakers

It’s pretty cool that both the TomTom and the Garmin let you change the voice files at your every whim if you want. It’s so easy to do that you can have someone different tell you where to go every day.
It’s not only my GPS that’s telling me where to go, I hear it from [...]

Move Tracks From Google Earth to GPS

One thing I always want to do is plan a trip before I go out on it if there’s some danger of getting lost. If I’m going to visit a couple of islands with a boat, trek out into the wild Sierra Madre or even visit a town that has no road data available there’s [...]

Geotagging Photos - Cheap and Easy

Geotagging is a fairly-new, automatic and easy way to keep your digital photos organized. With a GPS enabled camera you can include GPS location information within the Exif data in your pictures. The problem however is that the cameras that have this functionality built in are still very expensive. Pictured on the right is Nikon’s [...]

Build Your Own GPS

So you’ve thought about making your own GPS? Nowadays such a feat of electronic genius can be done much easier than you think.
The guys over at MAKE Magazine put together a little video on how to do it from easily available parts.

Pretty awesome hey? You can buy all the parts that you need to make [...]

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