My Nav Upgrade - heaps of pics

[jochen 4]

Well those who have been following my nav story in dull boring text have asked for pictures so they can really SEE what it looks like. Here they are......

My BMW now says hello when I unlock it and the car boots up:

The new Euro-style main menu:

Where shall we go?

Here's the start of the route (in white)

Here's the end of the route. Guess where the destination is!

Arrival time is automatically sent to the Trip Computer:

Who wants maps? Not everyone, this is for those that prefer text:

You can have split-screen on any of these displays:

Some interesting diagnostics:

Guess where I am? How high I am? Date and time in UTC anyone?

And I checked my speedo accuracy today: set cruise control to smack on 100kph.

GPS logged speed-over-ground at 27.8m/s which is... EXACTLY... 100kph

Good on those Germans, nothing like being precise :-)

So how many satellites can I receive? And how strong are their signals?

And of course you can set everything to your hearts desire:

The voice guidance in German is sooo cool...!!

The usual other functions are still there like TV:

...and the auxiliary ventillation, to pre-cool the car when you return from the beach:

...and the Code, to stop your kids borrowing the car:

So there you go. My nav system guided me to Snells Beach and back today, and it just works brilliantly.

It tells you where you are (what road, what suburb), distance to go to next waypoint, distance to go to destination, ETA, and its just great watching the map and seeing where in the country you are.

If you like cruising in your BMW, then the nav system is just the bee's knees

I love it!

Cheerio, Jochen

Edited August 9, 2006 by jochen

[OLLIE 26]

i am very impressed! i want to see it because i love this kind of thing, technology making our lives easier.

brig it along to the next meet

[jochen 4]

Where and when?

I'll let my nav system guide me there...

[ED1RTY 2]

haha i love it! bet they don't make anything that flash for the old E30?! Are those NAVMAN units really worth it?

[hybrid 1043]

thats awesome jochen ... stoked how it came out for you

[Guest Andrew]

Very cool.

[SKT174 1]

Very Nice !

Jochen, what is the approx cost to do something like this?

[jochen 4]

Cost me $2,500 to replace the necessary bits, which I did myself

[*sic 1]

ouch.

but still cool and all.

i like the mystery of finding / not finding places myself. this would kill my buzz

[SKT174 1]

Cost me $2,500 to replace the necessary bits, which I did myself

wow ~

Possible to replace the current 4:3 screen to the 16:9 one?

[bravo 35]

Guess where I am? How high I am? Date and time in UTC anyone?

Here:

Edited August 13, 2006 by bravomikewhiskey

[jochen 4]

Ummm.. wrong!

You forgot to convert degrees-minutes-seconds into decimal degrees <grin>

Possible to replace the current 4:3 screen to the 16:9 one?

Totally:

Remove 4:3

Fit 16:9 mounting bracket

Fit 16:9 monitor

Done

Same connectors, just the bracket changes

Only hinderance is $$$$

Jochen

[bravo 35]

My bad - I thought of that but assumed that google Earth just used "surveyors" notation (ie 4 decimal places with no degrees and minutes symbols.) I should have checked the "pointer location" at the bottom but since it put me near Piha (by fluke it seems) I assumed I was right.