External antennae on most of the Compact Flash GPS systems I have seen
are optional.
I am sure Apple could devise a clever way such that a CF/PCMCIA GPS
system would share the internal antenna used by the AirPort card, thus
eliminating the extrusion found on all such cards but have provisions
for an external antenna as well.
Talk about elegant, that would be elegant.
The fact that Apple does not do this tells me that even they think
their own market is to small to bother.
Getting back to my original question, however...
Does anyone know of a CF/PCMCIA GPS system that does work on the
Macintosh?
Thanks.
On Feb 6, 2004, at 8:13 AM, Jatin Pandya wrote:
Holding my iBook in one had and antennae mast in another while walking down to street for war-walking is also not an elegant solution either ;) I think if you are just talikng about GPS interface alone in general, I understand your comment. But if it is in connection with packet capturing, well, anything that works should make you happy :)
Kaarigar ===================== --- Patrick Munson <pmunce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:http://www.gpscity.com/gps/brados/3215.1.12398727029410847560/A serial or USB solution to using a GPS system on a laptop computer is not very elegant when opposed to a Compact Flash or PCMCIA solution.
What do others use their PCMCIA slot for anyway? Mine is unused except for the occasional access to images from a digital camera.
On Feb 5, 2004, at 1:00 PM, Kyle Christensen wrote:
Mainly because there's a ton of serial or USB gpsout there you canslots :)pickup for relatively cheap that won't monopolize precious PCMCIA/MiniPCIof their user base.
<quote who="Patrick Munson">Apple should have a pretty good idea of the sizesystem and/or
Why don't they make a Compact Flash or PCMCIA GPSwrote:interface software.
They did it with AirPort, why not GPS?
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