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[elko]

After some effort my son finally managed to place a map on my mobile phone to use in conjunction with my bluetooth GPS gadget. Now he can scan any map and put it on the phone. The trouble is that the town maps we have are too large to be scanned in one go and thus it will be very time consuming to scan them in parts and then join them up. Does anybody have any maps of Cyprus in electronic format?

For those who are wondering what its all about, here is a summary:
A GPS stands for "Global Positioning System". There are a number of satellites revolving above our heads and sending signals simultaneously. The GPS gadget picks up these signals and by measuring the time difference from each satellite determines the position of the gadget on earth by trigonometric calculations.

These gadgets come in different forms and prices. The simplest ones simply determines your coordinates and draws the path you follow or points out the distance and direction of any given "waypoint". The more sophisticated ones can be loaded with maps with street names and even places of interest. Thus once you input the street name it can navigate you to your destination.

Mine is a simple GPS gadget which connects to my mobile phone through bluetooth i.e. wireless. My phone is the type which can be loaded with various files and software. Thus I can use my GPS together with maps on my phone.
ismet

[Sotos]

These kind of maps: http://www.trackandtalk.net/content/view/6/27/ ? Shouldn't the maps be georeferenced to work with GPS devices?

[elko]

Thank you Sotos, I downloaded most of them and passed them on to my son to make them work on my mobile.
ismet

[carts]

HI Elko
this maybe of some help?

Some info on maping for cyprus, so maybe a tomtom will now work, Garmin does...

GPS cyprus, well it seems to be here and working in very good tried and truseted format, including postcode and door number entries / search. It speaks in either Greek or English giving turn by turn directions.

The system i have seem working was on a Garmin NUVI 760, but I'am assured that it should or will work with any system (if not most) that use an SD card for extra mapping.

This means it will work with the Kenwood car stereos using the SD card slot, (should get to see this working wednesday this week, fingers crossed)

So how much, 150euro for the mapping on a card, so yes you will need the GPS divece on top of that, these can be purchased on ebay for around £100 sterring. so for around 275 euro your up and running.

So where is this on offer,
right here in cyprus,
Limasoul in fact and they can also supply the GPS units, not sure on his prices,
but a very helpful guy called Evgenios Petrides,
at C A Petrides ltd
contacts for him are ;
email [email protected]
25 564 200
+357 22 564 200