Bluetooth GPS and Pocket Streets 2004

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Well there is little or no documentation because Pocket Streets does little
or nothing when paired with a GPS, of any sort. Pocket Streets is a great
electronic map. As you likely know it has no routing capability at all. You
can't even draw an electronic route on it like you could on a paper map.
You can find things quickly and it is quite accurate and well populated with
POIs in my opinion. None of that changes when you add a GPS. Basically
when you can get it to work, and that is sometimes a challenge, what you
have is all of the above, plus a dot where you are. That's it.

Buying a BT GPS to use with Pocket Streets is like buying an F350 to pull a
4x8 utility trailer.

That's not to say don't get a BT GPS, just set your sights a bit higher than
Pocket Streets as a mapping program to accompany it. Take a trip to
www.gpspassion.com for an idea of what's available and what folks say about
them. Personally I still like Mapopolis for use with my BT GPS.

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Sven, MS-MVP Mobile Devices
"Peter Barton" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:864701c4322c$ebb40590$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Does Poscket Streets effectively work with a Bluetooth
> GPS? I am told it does if I buy a GPS supporting NMEA
> 2.0 or higher. I am concerned as I have heard that there
> is little to no documentation from MS on using GPS with
> Pocket Streets.

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kengory wrote:
> I have a bluetooth GPS and pocket streets won't work with it. The
> device requires com port 8 and pocket streets doesn't provide that
> option. "

I believe MS fixed that in PS2004
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Darren Griffin
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