Frank,
Your PDA is tempting, but no.
Oziexplorer is a program I have on the laptop but there is also Oziexplorer
CE for a PDA. It can use a variety of maps, I mostly use a 1:250000 natmap
but also have a variety of more detailed maps. You can also import your
farm map if you have it as a jpeg file. Oziexplorer will allow you to
calculate areas so it couls be usefull for strip grazing or setting out
paddocks if you were re-fencing.
I think there is a program called Destinator which people use and it gives
verbal directions for when you are next in sydney!!!
Nick Renyard
Timboon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Tyndall" <ftyndall@ozemail.com.au>
To: <vicdairy-l@unimelb.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:38 AM
Subject: Palm Pilots/pda's
> Alistair and all,
> I have used a PDA for about four years. A major point for me: I am
> prepared to carry around only one thing. So it has to be a phone as well.
>
> I have had two types, first an O2, currently an Imate. Both have been
> totally reliable, and I can't really fault anything. Although the screen
> size and characters seem to be getting smaller and smaller as time goes
by!!
> The main use of a PDA is "diary", "to do list", and "contacts", (and
> "phone"). The Imate also runs all windows programs, incl excel so will
do
> any farm thing. It's also a camera, MP3 player, dictaphone (the latter is
> more useful than you might think at first) , and has bluetooth. It can
> hook onto the Internet, get email, etc, but I rarely use that because it
> costs a lot and is very slow. I wish it was also a radio. I use a number
> of normal dairyfarm spreadsheets (rations, grazing, ferts, etc) on it.
They
> simply convert from my computer to it. All programs sync automatically
> with my computer when I hook them together. It's is a bit bulky, I am
> thinking of buying the smaller version now available (about $1,100). Does
> anyone want a 18 month old Imate/phone for $250 (cost $1,200 new)?
> I have got bits and pieces of useful software for it off the net. Like a
> chinese phrasebook and a program that keeps all your pin numbers handy but
> safely encrypted ( that's another thing with age: I get to the ATM, and
> I've suddenly got confused or forgotten my pin number. Well, I reckon
I've
> got at least fifty pins or passwords.)
>
> I apparently could attach a GPS to it but never have.
> Alastair, and all, I would be very interested in a discussion on GPS. Can
> you get a handheld GPS, to measure paddocks and not get lost when walking
> around, say, Sydney, or the bush, that also works as a car
> navigator????
>
> Regards
> Frank Tyndall
>
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