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DTK 
Well, when you said that many enthusiasts (I am an enthusiast) prefer the "miniITX" due to its small size (obviously a requirement for vehicle mounting) it sure sounded like you were implying that I might need such a thing. If I wasn't an enthusiast and I wasn't interested in the small size I would have purchased a laptop and wouldn't be posting here. Don't mean to put words in your mouth, but I just interpreted your words using commonly understood definitions.
I'll clarify:
Many users prefer to use motherboards with the miniITX formfactor because they are small.
They are hardly necessary, so long as you have the space for a motherboard with different (and larger) formfactor.
Personally, I have a motherboard that uses Shuttle's proprietary formfactor, which is about the same size as flexATX, yet nother formfactor.
Basically, my point is that you can use damn near
any computer hardware in your vehicle. You're only limited by how much money you have to spend and how much time and effort you're willing to put in (or pay someone else to put in) in order to make your hardware fit & work properly in your setup.
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Funny, I just used your terminology. Excuse me if I forgot to add "motherboard". As you might have noted from my first post, I am new and am trying to learn. Chastising me for omitting a term which I don't understand seems like a good way to get me to leave. If thats the case, I'll comply.
My point is that there is no such thing as "a miniITX".
There is such a thing as "a miniITX formfactor motherboard".
Does that clear up what I was trying to convey?
It's similar to the difference between "I have a red." and "I have a red ball." Which one makes more sense?
I promise you that if you were to walk into your local computer store and tell the salesperson that you want "a miniITX", they would correct you as well. Depending on the shop, they might also laugh at you. We're not doing that here...
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No, as I mentioned in my original post, I am interested in observing my tracking in my vehicle. If I need to obtain another vehicles position I will utilize APRS over my Ham radio.
OK. Subsequent posts have made this clear, I believe.
Understand that
typically we think of "live GPS tracking" as the ability to remotely see someone's location based on GPS data that is sent to some repository, typically through the internet.
GPS navigation is the plotting of current lcation on a map and interpolating the directions you need to follow in order to get to a specified destination.
Based on what you've said, you really don't want either. You just want to see your position plotted on a map, using the GPS data. That's pretty simple, so long as your map application has the ability to plot coordinates from GPS data. You said that it does, so you're set there.
I
believe that you may also want to have the ability to plot your route after the fact in your map softare, as well. If this is the case, then you may want the ability to log the GPS data or possibly the route from your topo map program. This might be a bit trickier, but certainly doable.
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