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Doctor Feelgood · Administrator

I have a mini PC I have planned on putting in my Jeep for years... I am finally doing it, as I got a FM modulator coming, a 16-channel USB GPS receiver, a DVD/CDRW combo drive, and a new power board coming...

Next was to get GPS software. I found this free thing that actually seems pretty cool... RoadNav.

http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/

Has anyone used it?

Have it installed just to get set up, as I have a few days before the GPS receiver gets here. Looks very cool, and seems functional enough. Has maps that you can control the view/style/angle on, as well as verbal turn by turn directions.

I punched in my address and my parents and it threw up the map with distance, estimated time, etc... Looks like it will keep that updated as you progress, as well as feeding back your speed.

One issue is the maps... You download the maps you want individually, and they come from somewhere else... It is just SLOW to download every map of every county in the US. Plus I get errors if I try to download to many at once.

It uses US Census Bureau maps, and I was wondering if anyone knew how/where to just grab them all at once... And then maybe just feed RoadNav all at once.