Thread: Anybody tried to use this for carputer nav in Australia?

Originally Posted by DrkStormTrooper

Hi everyone,
I've seen this page for a while now and was wondering how hard it would be to implement into a carputer or if anyone has already attemted to do so?

http://www.whereis.com.au/products/vehicle_navigation.jhtml;$sessionid$AVGFSGGWRHWXTS 0Z2WKSDSY

It says that "It is designed to be compatible with all major 'In-Car' navigation systems, including the Blaupunkt Travel Pilot, VDO/Dayton, Magellan, Mitsubishi Electric, Garmin and Denso systems."... Most of our carputer OS are built on Win/Linux/Mac/etc. I have no access in any of those expensive systems mentioned, they mostly have their own OS so I don't know if it will work for a carputer idea. To make it simple, anything that understand NMEA should work, I use GPSS to decode NMEA signals so any GPS unit that output NMEA works in my carputer setup. This is interesting though, I may have to look into it. BTW, I bought a UBD Digital Street Mapping CD just to use the map (it also has an access to Whereis Online), upon testing I found out that its longtitude and latitude is offset by several meters so I could'nt use it.

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Its time to revive this thread :P

I have the Whereis Navigation CD (verion 5) with me atm. A friend of mine installs GPS in cars and he lent the CD to me.
Problem is its got 4 or 5 files on the CD (150MB all up) but none of them are readable on the PC. Does anyone know if there is some sort of emulator for this software? If there is I will make an ISO of the CD and host it on my server.

what file extension are these files?
let me know if u can upload them somewhere on the net..

I think that the data that is used by whereis is provided by Sensis - I spoke to the rep at CeBit last year, and he commented that though the data was NMEA compatible, and should work with other hardware. The nice thing is that they don't do hardware, so they were happy to talk about software only. Having said that though, I don't know how much this rep really knew.

Do they have a app to read the maps as well that you can get your grubby paws on?

C!

havnt found or heard of something like this C4M. I dont have the Cd anymore but I will get it back again and make an ISO of it.

Hey guys,
i'm in melbourne, Australia, and i'm already using a whereis CD in my car. I'm currently putting together my car pc and i was about to buy the traveroute copilot laptop 7 (damn expensive). I'm not even sure if I'll be able to embed it in MediaCar. I'll need plenty of luck this time. I can hope i can be helpful here.

Mike

Welcome aboard Mike!
What sort of hardware are you using your Whereis CD on?

Hey guys. well i've got the cd. This is what the directory contains

D:\>tree/f
Folder PATH listing for volume cd2-AUS_ndd21 v4
Volume serial number is 71FAE346 7BB458C
D:.
CONFIG.SYS
DFLASHDL.BEX
INFO.TXT
MAP00001.MAP
NAV00001.DAT
NAV20010.DAT
NAV20055.DAT
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NAV20125.DAT
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No subfolders exist


Anybody got some ideas of implemention??

And this is what the text file says.

cd2-AUS_ndd21 v4


Title: TravelPilot DX

Project-Number: AUS-2003
Project-Name: Australia DX 2003

Worm: cd2-AUS_ndd21 v4

Online-Software: ndd21 v6-ece-287-02
Boot-Filetyp .all

Nav-Data: nav2-AUS_2002_NG3 v3
Map-Data: map2-AUS_2002_MG3 v3
Quad-Idx: quad2-AUS_2002 v4

NTL:
DNL:
TOC: tc_b____.toc (default)

Speller:
Date: 26.11.02

Compose-Tool: SCCS-Vers
Image-Tool: SCCS-Vers 1.13 09-25-02