May 03, 2004
Disney World vacation
Well, I'm off to Disney World in a couple of days. I leave on Tuesday and will be back the following Wednesday. I'll be packing some serious gadgetry for my trip, including the latest version of Destinator 3.0 GPS software for the iPaq (image above), Destinator GPS adaptor (powered via cigarette lighter) to use with the rental car, a laptop, a CompactFlash TeleType GPS card, one 512MB CF card, one 256MB CF card, a cell phone, and Microsoft Pocket Streets.
I like Microsoft Pocket Streets which comes included with MapPoint 2004, Streets & Trips 2004 and AutoRoute 2004.
I can simply "cut" a section of the U.S. map (in this case the Orlando area) and have a complete listing of gas stations, restaurants, and other POIs (points of interests).
The advantage of using PocketStreets in conjunction with the TeleType GPS CF GPS card over the Destinator GPS car unit, is that I can walk around with GPS access wherever I go. The Destinator software and the Destinator GPS car unit were strictly designed for car navigation.
I've used PocketStreets on the other hand to walk through Disney World and map my favorite coordinates, such as Space Mountain, Mission Space, water fountains (critical in the Florida heat), bathrooms, and other useful locations.
Heck, since I'm renting a car this time to Disney, I may program the rental car coordinates to be able to find my car quickly in the enormous parking lots! (that is if my wife doesn't get annoyed that I'm walking around staring at the iPaq trying to navigate my way!)
I'll post a post-Disney report when I return. Maybe I'll even post some cool Disney GPS coordinates.
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Hi Tom,
I am trying to find pocket street maps of disney and that part of Florida but the ones on Microsoft site for Orlando don't go there. Where did you get yours?
Thanks in advance
Graeme
Posted by: Graeme at November 3, 2004 11:11 AMTwo options:
1) Here is the link to MS Pocket Streets 2005 "free" maps. (Just scroll down and you will see USA_FL_Miami.mps and USA_FL_Miami_GRT.mps) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f616e67b-1879-434c-be64-0fb8cf65d64d&DisplayLang=en
2) If you are a licensed user of Microsoft MapPoint 2004 or later, Microsoft Streets & Trips 2004 or later, or Microsoft AutoRoute 2004 or later, you can create and then copy maps onto your Microsoft Windows Mobile-based device that you can then use in Pocket Streets. I didn't like the free Orlando maps since if I recall they were too small, so I went into my MS Streets 2005 program and "cut a map" and exported it into PocketStreets format.
Let me know if this helps by posting a comment.
p.s. Did you check out my Disney GPS Coordinates? you can download them here:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/voip/archives/my-favorite-disney-gps-coordinates.asp
