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We want to use MapPoint on a Laptop computer in vehicles and tie it to a fixed mount GPS receiver so they will know their actual location. Any suggestions for appropriate receivers? Thanks.

I'm not a GPS guy, but from a quick search of the <a
href="news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.mappoint">Microsoft
MapPoint newsgroup</a>:



"Any good Garmin will do the trick for you." - Vic Fraenckel



"... For MapPoint and GPSes - the requirements are: connection via a
serial interface, at NMEA levels (NMEA is also a hardware spec), support
for the NMEA 2.0 protocol." - Gilles Kohl



"The [Delorme] Earthmate outputs a proprietary "Rockwell binary
protocol" instead of NMEA. [Walt: This is not good. Although Vic
Fraenckel mentions http://www.byonics.com/tinytrak/ where you can get a
converter for NMEA compatibility.]" - Gilles Kohl



- Walt Cygan