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Old August 13th 03, 12:33 AM
JerryK
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Don't forget a lot of cell phones now have a GPS chip in them to meet E911
requirements. There are tons more cell phones than boaters and campers.


"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message
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There are orders of magnitude more personal boats cruising the world than

GA
planes, and a significant percentage of those boats have at least one

GPS...
They are the driving force behind the moving map stuff... The millions of
campers, hikers, etc., buy tens of thousands of the under $300 handhelds,
and they are the financial base upon which the GPS moving map industry

sits,
currently... Us high end Moving Map / IFR Approach / WAAS airplane guys

are
the tip of the commercial GPS iceberg...

Denny