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(Gps systems) The TomTom Go 710. A Field Test And Appraisal – Motoring Around Europe. Part Two

Friday, January 28th, 2011

By Damian Hatt

 The TomTom Go 710. A Field Test And Appraisal – Driving Around Europe. Part Two

Next day, I was set to go to Zurich. After a wet night in Luxembourg I had a lot of mud in the van. I was rapidly going off camping. So, I decided to book in to a hotel. And the TomTom found a best western in Zurich. Good girl I thought. Were still friends. So off I wNext day, I was set to go to Zurich. After a wet night in Luxembourg I had a lot of mud in the van. I was rapidly going off camping. So, I decided to book in to a hotel. And the TomTom found a best western in Zurich. Good girl I thought. Were still friends. So off I went.

Got to Zurich and my old pal started to have a bit of a flid. Didnt like the overhead train lines and roads and kept losing the signal. However, when she found the signal again, she didnt know how it got there and so it kept asking me to turn around when possible. After ten minutes of banging the steering wheel, I dried my frothing mouth and pulled over to ask someone. Not easy when your German is as good as mein (see what I did there) but I found the hotel in the end.

Next morning – on to Liechtenstein. I had found a campsite online the night before. To be fair it looked like just about the only campsite in Liechtenstein (160 square kilometres, 35,000 population, richest state per capita in the world = no pikies). But my little friend didnt have a clue. Couldnt find it at all. So, I typed in Vaduz – the capital – and hoped she would get me there. I would then use 20th century technology to get me the final mile – i.e. rely on the kindness of locals giving directions.

However, I think my little friend had been drinking the night before. She just couldnt seem to find her way out of Zurich. Like a blind man without a cane, we visited quite a few suburbs of Zurich that morning (all as dull as each other). It was at this point we reached a new low in or relationship. At several points during the morning I was very angry. I had trouble keeping my eyes from popping out of my head and I very nearly destroyed her.

In the end, I navigated my own way to the motorway and eventually escaping Zurich, I reached Vaduz. She was alright on the motorways. Straight ahead she said. Turn left in one kilometre. Stupid b*tch I thought. Id like to smash her head in.

Got to Vaduz. Nice little town. Surely I cant get too lost here.. Well she didnt know where the campsite was. And to be fair, nor did the locals. I eventually found it. It looked more like a halfway house. There were a lot of strange people with beards sitting around some 70s caravans. Realizing that this was a group of women, I jumped back into the van and headed straight to Italy.

A hotel for me again I thought. I didnt even try to put in the hotel details. I couldnt face that sinking feeling of watching her try and fail to find the right location.

So, Lake Como it was. Beautiful. If you get a chance to go, you should. The Italians were friendly and guided me into the hotel. Even had a parking spot. Lush. As for the TomTom, we hadnt fallen out because I hadnt asked her to do anything.

A few days later and I was back on my travels. This time Monaco. Monte Carlo to be precise. Playground of the rich and idle, classless, new money and no taste. But – some success. Found the hotel straight away. Drove in like a dream. Like she was meant to in the first place. Spent the night there and left for Bordeaux.

Again, didnt want to push my luck with her, so I just typed in Bordeaux. Had lunch and tried the address of the Best Western Hotel I was stopping at. The blank look of a deaf sheep dog. Ah well, I thought. My French is better than my German. After asking a few of our friendly French cousins for directions, I decided to buy a map I was staying for a week. And I would need to get out if she decided to hit the sauce again like Zurich. Found it and had a great week.

Finally, reluctantly leaving the hotel, I typed in my final address. An English postcode in South West London. She knew where it was. Praise the lord, I set off as happy as a clam, eventually reaching my final destination.

So, after 2 weeks and several destinations, how would I rate the TomTom 710? Hmmm, overall I would say pretty poor. You see, the main roads in Europe are well signposted and logical. If you have an IQ of over 80 then youve got a pretty good chance of navigating from city to city and country to country on your own. (If youve got an IQ lower than 80 youve got no business going abroad anyway.)

In any strange town, its the last mile where you need the help. And this is exactly where the TomTom will let you down. Its just not good enough. So, my advice is: If you are going to Europe and renting a camper van, by all means rent a Sat Nav system – just make sure it isnt this one. But make sure you plan well. Buy a good map. And when you get near to your destination, buy a local map. Really, it will save you hours of frustration. Finally, take a smart phone to log onto Google Maps for absolute emergencies (data connection will cost you an arm, a leg and probably 50% of your liver and kidneys).

But whatever you do. Do not purchase the TomTom 710.

This does not cover everything that may be involved, but with any luck I have given you an insight into what’s involved. You can find plenty of ebooks and such stuff that you can find on the world wide web. I always go to a company called computer repair london. They do not just repair computer systems, additionally provide IT support also and they are always helpfull if you get stuck on something technical.

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(Gps navigation system) GPS Tracking Watches At Work

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

By Joe Mueller

 GPS systems work around the basic principle called trilateration. Trilateration uses the known location of a transmitting device and the distances between these devices and the person using their GPS device to calculate the exact position of the receiver. This is very much like the more widely know triangulation, except that trilateration does not use angles at all in its calculations.

To better understand how this works imagine that you are standing at a some point int he middle of nowhere. You have no idea how you got there and all you have with you are the clothes on your back, enough food and water to travel for one day, and a GPS device. You wake up wondering where you are and you look at your GPS tracking watch and read that you are at a certain latitude and longitude at 10 feet above sea level. How does you GPS know so much more information than you?

Well, traveling 12,600 miles (20,200 km) above you is a system of 24 satellites maintained by the US government that are constantly transmitting microwave signals at the speed of light. These transmissions contain information read by that watch on your wrist – information used to accurately calculate your position on the surface of the earth. The basic information contained in these messages is the time at which the signal was initiated by the satellite and the satellites position. The distance between the receiver and the satellite is then calculated by multiplying the speed of the signal by the time is took to get to the receiver.

So your GPS device has invisible, silently, and quickly calculated your position, but what is that going to do for you in the hypothetical situation outlined above? Well, if your GPS device is simply a data logger (the simplest and most widespread GPS application) then you are still just as hopelessly lost as you where when you woke up. With no map you could head out in the wrong direct and end up dying a painful, horrible death alone in the wilderness – yuck.

But if you had a data pushing GPS device you can sit back and relax because you know that your device not only knows exactly where it is in the world, but it also is transmitting that information to a central database for the good guys (family, friends, or authorities) to see. They will know where you are to within 500 feet. The is pretty close. With a data pushing GPS device you can find some shade and rest in mother nature until the rescue team arrives. In our hypothetical situation you want a this type of GPS device.

It is important to note that each type of GPS device has its own application and use. For most people in most situations a data logger will do just fine. It tracks where you have been and has applications in hiking, biking, and running. But for situations where someone else would benefit from knowing your location – in tracking down a stolen vehicle, knowing the whereabouts of a child, or finding a lost hiker – than you definitely want to invest in a data pushing GPS device.

Joe teaches people about GPS tracking watches and about how to get kids to use their kids GPS devices.


Kids GPS Brings Peace of Mind

By Joe Mueller

 Peace of mind can be defined in the following way: absence of mental stress or anxiety, and the presence of serenity, calm, quiet, comfort of mind. This is something that we all want and something that we all need. Without peace of mind there can be a large disconnect between the things that really matter and the things that our anxiety chooses to focus on leaving us disjointed and out of balance.

One example of this might be how a GPS device for children can help us get back to thinking about how to be a better parent.

To be honest, the threat of our child being abducted by someone who is looking to do them bodily harm is very, very low. The vast majority of child abductions occur in custody cases where an estranged father or mother is so distraught over loosing visitation rights or of having “insufficient” visitation rights that they choose to override the courts judgment and take custody of the child themselves. They don’t want to hurt the child, they just want to be with them.

In addition to that, the amount of press that child abductions receive is misleading in that they can place the thought of your child being stolen from you on the forefront of your mind for months and months when again, the chances of it happening are very slim indeed.

Yet despite the objective truth that the chances of our child being taken by a serial rapist, murderer, or pedophile is extremely low we still feel a great level of concern about it. The fact is, our children are much, much more likely to die in car accidents or because of leukemia than they are to be taken from our grasps. Yet we fear an abduction much more because it is very scary, very unknown, and very uncontrollable.

A kids GPS can take some of these factors away and put our minds back at ease. It does this by taking away the element of time from a potential assailant. If your child is late getting home or goes outside the prescribed boundaries of their GPS unit you will know it and you will be able to act immediately.

Not only will you be able to act immediately, but you will be able to act with the exact location of where your child is in mind. Not only will you know that your child is missing, but you will be able to know where they are missing at – empowering you and the police to rescue your child from the hands of evil. The fear is taken away, so is not knowing where your child is, and control is put back into your hands.

Chances are you will never need a to use yoru child’s GPS device. But if you are experiencing some fear and anxiety about it, then you might want consider getting a GPS device for your son or daughter. It is really up to you.

Kids GPS devices can be an important part of helping you keep tabs on your kids. Need help is your device? Check out our kids GPS tracking watch tips at GPS For Today.


Kids GPS Could Save Your Life

By Joe Mueller

 We have all come to know that the world we live in is a dangerous place. It doe not have to be that way, but for some reason human beings in our modern societies cannot, or will not, learn to live with each other in peace and harmony. Murder, kidnappings, rape, and a host of other problems occur on a daily basis, touching lives irregardless of race, gender, or location. It does not happen to many people, but those who have to live with the aftermath of these terrible crimes suffer greatly.

The absolute worst is out there in people and we need to find ways to minimize the risk of such terrible and unthinkable things happening to us or to the people that we love. Deploy a kids gps device is one such way that we take back some of the safe feeling that has been taken from us by the evil that we know lurks in our cities. We want our children to be safe and sound, free to grow up a normal life in this world.

GPS cannot do it all alone, but it does have some useful features that can really assist a parent in helping their child navigate their environment with safety and ease. Because most child GPS device have many of the normal GPS features – the ability to calculate, track, and log position, direction, and speed information – they are great for helping a child see exactly where they are (if they have that feature enabled, like a few cell phone do).

In addition to these regular features, these devices also transmit this information to a central location where that information is processed and made available to you, the parent.

If a child is late in getting home all you need to do is run over to the computer to put to rest any fear that the child has become the victim of some deranged lunatic bent on the destruction of the life that is most precious to you. You will be able to clearly see that they are on their way home, walking at 2 mph and will be home in about 10 minutes because they are at the corner of Jefferson and Pine, just a few blocks away. If you were particularly interested in seeing your child you could even go out and meet them.

Now imagine the situation where you do find out the worst. Your child is late and you check in on your tracking information that is easily accessible on the internet. Your child is 5 miles from home at 1345 Conner Road and the signal is noticeably moving on your screen. You do a quick check of your child’s friends and see that no one you know lives there. You call your child’s cell and no one answers. In less than two minutes you are out the door with your web-enabled cell phone in hand on a B-line to 1345 Conner Road.

Your children are one of the most important things in the world, shouldn’t they be protected like there are?

GPS tracking for kids can be an important part of helping you keep tabs on your kids. Need help is your device? Check out our kids GPS tracking watch information at GPS For Today.

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My911 Cell Phone SOS Is A Safety Must-Have (gps navigation)

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

By Timmy Vic

 If youve ever been in a car accident, you know how frightening it can be. Being in any kind of accident is difficult, but it can be especially disconcerting when it happens far from home or familiar places. My911 Inc., has created a cell phone SOS Smart phone Software Application which enables you to, with the push of one button communicate your whereabouts to a nearby emergency response unit. Cell phone SOS works within the United States, and also internationally which is excellent for travelers. When using the cell phone SOS application internationally, the system automatically re-routes the call to the nearest emergency response unit. This can save valuable time in the event of an urgent situation. To learn more about cell phone SOS, visit my-911 and click on the International and National SOS button.

Cell phone SOS is an excellent investment not only for adults, but also for kids with cell phones, spouses who travel and businesses where employees travel to service clients or deliver product. Whether youre traveling on business, vacationing or just driving to your best friends house on the other side of the city, knowing that with one button, cell phone SOS can get you the help you need in the event of an emergency is very reassuring for yourself and those you love.

My911 Inc. has created a monthly subscription which provides personal GPS services, including Cell phone SOS. For those who have children with cell phones, what better peace of mind than to always know they can be located through cell phone SOS by emergency personnel! Cell Phone SOS can help to locate anyone, anytime. Because buttons can accidentally get pushed, My911 Inc. has also programmed an alarm to go off once cell phone SOS is activated. You can choose in your settings, to add a short delay into the system, so that if you or your child! activate the Cell Phone SOS program unintentionally, you can deactivate it before the authorities are notified.

With the My911 system, the smart phones location is constantly being monitored and updated, so there is no risk of a long delay while tracking systems are updated. This is a benefit, because in the event of an accident that requires immediate attention, there will not be a delay in the Cell Phone SOS system, since it is always automatically up to date.

My911 Inc. has created a well rounded monthly GPS system, which addresses a variety of safety and security needs in an easy to access format. While it does include cell phone SOS services, their monthly subscription also offers much more. These services are provided for a small monthly fee and offer a chance to give yourself peace of mind, whether the cell phone SOS service is for you or a loved one, it is well worth the minimal cost each month to know you are safe. Be sure to visit my-911and review their many services and safety tools, including cell phone SOS today.

My911 takes advantage of readily available technologies to bring you a reliable mobile GPS tracking and accident response service .Utilize mobile technology to ensure your safety wherever you go. Visit the www.my-911.com site to learn more.

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GPS Tracking Devices Tutorial: Data-Loggers (mobile gps)

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

By Rose Li

 Do you ever stop to wonder where someone has been? Do you want to grasp without them finding out? Can you keep a secret? GPS data-loggers are one variety of GPS tracking devices that will be excellent for you then!

Thanks to the power of technology GPS tracking devices are a useful help to today’s gizmo lovers. They receive the signal from a series of satellites and can use this signal to grasp where they are on Earth! It is precise, fast and convenient as they dispense with the need for old-fashioned maps, compasses and other items that should have been binned last century! Just the touch of your mouse button will give you your exact position in the world down to a metre or so!

GPS data-loggers are one branch of the GPS tracking devices family tree. These units receive positional signals from the satellites, same as any other GPS device , but deftly store them ( or log them ) so it may be possible to see where they have been later .

In this way they’re the perfect PI, but without the high fees and dubious methods. They tend to be really small, simple devices that are built mainly around the GPS receiver and some memory for the information. Then youjust link them to your computer and upload the data picked up to see where they’ve been. Straightforward!

In fact GPS data-loggers are justa one-time cost, as they require no subscription and no phone credit at all. Why are they a perfect PI? These devices are small, really tiny. You might simply slip one into a car’s glove box, somebody’s handbag or a coat pocket and nobody would ever know! Just grab it at a later point and then you’ll be able to grasp exactly where it and the person in question has been.

If you are not in a hurry then GPS data-loggers are good as you relax, let them do the work and then get their info later at your convenience.

But if you need speedy updates on somebody or something’s location, then you’ll need to consider a rather more pricey real-time GPS tracking device which can update you on its coordinates at any time by employing the telephone network.

You must also remember that GPS signal is likely to be influenced by metal, so think about if you need to track something under a solid metal object!

Suspicious better halves of the world unite! Now you have GPS data-loggers on your side, a chum to anyone that needs to discover where somebody or something has been retrospectively!

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Teletrac Offers Intelligent Truck Tracking Solutions

By Bill Pereyo

 Teletrac has been delivering intelligent driving solutions to the organizations since 1988. It helps organizations and their employees to improve drive productivity and cut down operating costs while improving end-user service. With more than 20 years of experience, latest technology, most innovative driving solutions, and outstanding customer support, the company continues to deliver the best possible services to its clients. It is the first company that introduced low-cost fleet management solutions for organizations and still continues to lead the industry. It offers a wide selection of software modules for Truck Tracking and reporting with real-time traffic information.

Products and Services Offered by Teletrac

Headquartered in California, Teletrac has been a leading supplier of tracking systems such as GPS Fleet Tracking, GPS Tracking Devices, Vehicle Tracking Services, GPS Tracking Systems, Fleet Location Monitoring, and Messaging. In addition, the company offers various software modules and components including Turn-by-Turn navigation with real-time traffic information, GPS-based automated truck tracking and reporting, among others. It also offers alert/exception notifications, electronic fuel tax data and onboard engine, electronic Hours-of Service with in-cab viewing of driver status and history, and vehicle diagnostic.

The GPS Tracking Systems and GPS Tracking Solutions provide your company with superior safety and efficiency and better visibility and control. These systems also help decreasing fuel costs, improving driver’s productivity, reducing unauthorized use of truck, and eliminating unnecessary overtime. You can now easily track vehicle’s location and status along with driver’s behavior and vehicles performance by using Teletrac’s Fleet Director. The system is installed by highly trained and experienced employees.

How to Contact Teletrac?

If you want complete information about the product or require a product demo before placing your order, feel free to contact their customer care representative. They’ll fix an appointment with you for a live product demonstration. If you have any questions or want further assistance, simply visit their website and submit a small online request form. Alternatively, you can call them on their toll-free number for immediate assistance. You can also email your doubts or questions related to any technical issue. Teletrac offers excellent technical support to their clients.

Teletrac has been providing the best Truck Tracking services to its clients. If you require any assistance, feel free to contact them. Call them or send them an email mentioning your requirements. You can also drop down to their office personally.

Teletrac is a California-based company. It offers, GPS Tracking Systems, GPS Tracking Devices, Vehicle Tracking Services, Fleet Location Monitoring, GPS Truck Tracking Systems, and Messaging including Truck GPS, Trucking, Truck Tracking to its clients.

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