Re: Do any GPS units let you upload your own maps?

Bitstring <gOwUh.5717$5e2.2228@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person Bruce W.1 <sorry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said
Does any manufacturer make a GPS receiver -- yet -- that lets you upload your own image file (like a scanned map) to use as the background map?

You should be able to do that with PDA or Laptop based solutions (e.g. something like Oziexplorer). See for instance:-
http://www.oziexplorer3.com/ozice/oziexplorerce1.html

A 'real' handheld GPS works with vector mapping, rather than a picture. Pictures scale really really badly (look at Google Earth and note how it needs a different picture loaded each time you zoom in a bit .. and those pictures are big suckers compared to the memory on most GPS handsets).

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