Thread: General GPS Question

No.
Besides, where would you connect the keyboard, mouse, etc.

GPS recievers connect through a USB or serial port. Unfortionately, lilliputs do not have an input for that. Also, you would have to install the gps software onto some type of harddrive. If I'm not mistaken..and I dont think I am... a lilliput does not have an operating system or a harddrive in it.

Originally Posted by Socno24

Is it possible to have GPS without having a CarPuter? I mean, just have the GPS reciever going straight into my Lilliput (non-touchscreen)? If so, I would need a keyboard and mouse for input since its not a touchscreen, correct?

I'm going to disagree with the other two replies here...
I think it's possible, albeit wholly impractical.

The Liliput is just a monitor nothing more. It has VGA & RCA composite inputs, so if you could get a GPS nav system for a vehicle, the Liliput could possibly be used as the monitor for that system.
We're talking one of the GPS setups from the mobile electronics companies (Kenwood, Alpine, etc.).
The impracticality comes in with interfacing the two. I don't know the video out that these units use. It's likely not VGA. If it's RCA composite, then it's a no-brainer. If it's not, then there's some hacking to do.
Same goes for any standalone GPS unit like Garmin's. Does it have any video out? Again, I can't say, but I don't believe it does.

Could you use a PDA-based GPS setup with the Liliput? Not bloody likely. There's no video out from the PDA.

Any other GPS receiver would need to be connected to a computer and have software to utilize it.

So in a nutshell: maybe.

I think the panasonic navigation system uses composite video...however I think it is intended to use with Panasonics own monitor as I think there is a proprietary touchscreen connection.