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06-22-2005, 05:13 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: UK, North West
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Mate,
I wish your success with this. I REALLY want to move away from Destinator! I'd actually use Tom Tom Mobile on my phone then destinator 3 despite te huge difference in screen size!
If your serious I would consdier maybe contributing towards buying the software. I do like the look on Alturion.
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06-22-2005, 05:25 PM
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#17
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The Vauxhall Vectra Project
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Morecambe, Lancs, UK ( Just For The Moment )
Posts: 2,676
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Look what I just found....
http://www.alturion.com/products/details.php?id=57
PC SDK for Alturon... thats new... and there is a beta programe as well...
Terran
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06-22-2005, 05:37 PM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Posts: 3,534
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Seriously, why does Crapinator have worldwide coverage, and good stuff doesnt?!
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Roy
2005 Range Rover 4.4
Any ideas for putting a PC in this? :)
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07-07-2005, 10:01 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: London, UK
Posts: 99
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Anyone had any progress with the SDK?
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07-08-2005, 05:07 AM
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The Vauxhall Vectra Project
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Morecambe, Lancs, UK ( Just For The Moment )
Posts: 2,676
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Mike B on the Digital Car forum is having a look and posted some comments about it...
http://www.digital-car.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1244
Terran
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07-08-2005, 11:17 AM
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The Vauxhall Vectra Project
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Morecambe, Lancs, UK ( Just For The Moment )
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chris31
Thanks for that I have just posted... how ever I still think this is the best of the bunch at the mo... just needs some work...
Terran
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07-08-2005, 04:46 PM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 1,736
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Quote: Originally Posted by ccsnet
Thanks for that I have just posted... how ever I still think this is the best of the bunch at the mo... just needs some work...
Terran
It does have alot to offer, but I really think they should work on getting the basic working really well first.
You know it always make me wonder how the TOMTOM on PDA (low power) runs much more effectively that some of the GPS apps on PC (high power).
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07-08-2005, 05:46 PM
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The Vauxhall Vectra Project
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Morecambe, Lancs, UK ( Just For The Moment )
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chris31
It does have alot to offer, but I really think they should work on getting the basic working really well first.
You know it always make me wonder how the TOMTOM on PDA (low power) runs much more effectively that some of the GPS apps on PC (high power).
My point is that D3 never really got the basics right... MapMonkey and Freedrive did... if you see where I am going with that...
Terran
Last edited by ccsnet; 07-08-2005 at 05:50 PM.
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07-13-2005, 04:15 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: The land of polar bears and nekkid blonds
Posts: 446
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For a brief moment I actually had the cursor on the "Buy" button, but right now I'm very, very, happy that I decided to try out the "demo" version first.
It may be feature packed, but it's a resource hog and the interface sucks.
"But there's an SDK"
Yeah, right...
Quote: Originally Posted by Alturion
It describes the COM interface with all its related objects, methods, events and properties.
The purpose of the interfaces is to be able to control every aspect of the Alturion GPS Desktop program.
First of all, their own samples don't work 
But the whole point of the SDK is to control the desktop program, they could have used sendkeys, but they made an "SDK".
This wouldn't have been a very big problem if you could get rid of all the menues and only use the navigation screen, but so far I haven't been able to do that, as you still have some menues and the routing info.
/M
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07-13-2005, 05:41 PM
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The Vauxhall Vectra Project
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Morecambe, Lancs, UK ( Just For The Moment )
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maximus
For a brief moment I actually had the cursor on the "Buy" button, but right now I'm very, very, happy that I decided to try out the "demo" version first.
It may be feature packed, but it's a resource hog and the interface sucks.
"But there's an SDK"
Yeah, right...
First of all, their own samples don't work
But the whole point of the SDK is to control the desktop program, they could have used sendkeys, but they made an "SDK".
This wouldn't have been a very big problem if you could get rid of all the menues and only use the navigation screen, but so far I haven't been able to do that, as you still have some menues and the routing info.
/M
Have you tried signing up to their beta program ? I think at the very least some one from here ( and I did try ) should get on and start passing these comments on...
Terran
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07-14-2005, 01:05 AM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: The land of polar bears and nekkid blonds
Posts: 446
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Quote: Originally Posted by ccsnet
Have you tried signing up to their beta program ? I think at the very least some one from here ( and I did try ) should get on and start passing these comments on...
Terran
At first I wasn't goint to bother as I think they're more into the hand held units rather than the desktop version.
My trusty BU-303 descided to take a vacation so I haven't had the possibility to test the software with a GPS connected, but I ordered a TMC enabled GPS the other day and hopefully I'll get it today. What I'm mostly curious about is if it is possible to route to a point without entering both your starting point and destination.
Right now it looks like Route 66 / Auto Route / MapPoint with TMC and a slightly worse interface 
Too bad really, it has potential... imagine if the SDK was a _real_ SDK and if the skinning module for PPC also worked on the desktop version  
But, to make a long story short.... I signed up for the Beta program and hopefully they'll accept it.
/M
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07-14-2005, 06:09 AM
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The Vauxhall Vectra Project
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Morecambe, Lancs, UK ( Just For The Moment )
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maximus
At first I wasn't goint to bother as I think they're more into the hand held units rather than the desktop version.
My trusty BU-303 descided to take a vacation so I haven't had the possibility to test the software with a GPS connected, but I ordered a TMC enabled GPS the other day and hopefully I'll get it today. What I'm mostly curious about is if it is possible to route to a point without entering both your starting point and destination.
Right now it looks like Route 66 / Auto Route / MapPoint with TMC and a slightly worse interface
Too bad really, it has potential... imagine if the SDK was a _real_ SDK and if the skinning module for PPC also worked on the desktop version
But, to make a long story short.... I signed up for the Beta program and hopefully they'll accept it.
/M
Keep us updated... if you get accepted PM me... I may have some thing for you to add in 
Terran
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07-14-2005, 06:17 AM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Essex, UK
Posts: 298
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maximus
At first I wasn't goint to bother as I think they're more into the hand held units rather than the desktop version.
My trusty BU-303 descided to take a vacation so I haven't had the possibility to test the software with a GPS connected, but I ordered a TMC enabled GPS the other day and hopefully I'll get it today. What I'm mostly curious about is if it is possible to route to a point without entering both your starting point and destination.
Right now it looks like Route 66 / Auto Route / MapPoint with TMC and a slightly worse interface
Too bad really, it has potential... imagine if the SDK was a _real_ SDK and if the skinning module for PPC also worked on the desktop version
But, to make a long story short.... I signed up for the Beta program and hopefully they'll accept it.
/M
Where did you order your TMC enabled GPS from.
cheers
Rickster
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07-14-2005, 01:27 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: The land of polar bears and nekkid blonds
Posts: 446
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Quote: Originally Posted by rickster
Where did you order your TMC enabled GPS from.
http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/392
Remember to order an adapter as well.
Same unit as http://www.gns-gmbh.com/de/30_gpsrds9830.php
Temporary solution until I can figure out how to combine the RDS/TMC stream with the GPS stream on a OEM module.
Strange that no OEM module seem to have TMC support.
/M
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