Anyone know of any good software to draw a map based on GPS with a laptop. I would like to to be somewhat automatic so I just drive it maps.

Idealy it would also record via the mic or attached video camera at the same time?

 

Well if I'm going on a local run, I take mine with me..... Gateway Tablet (required for school) and the Garmin GPS18 USB antenna and the included software. WORKS GREAT!!!

The antenna as a magnetic base so i just open the sunroof and stick it to the roof. Laptop in the passenger seat and all works well.

 

Check out the CoPilot products. I use Copilot 6 for my PDA and its great. The bluetooth GPS adaptor also works with my notebook and I have used it with MS Streets and Trips and a few other mapping apps. I took the train from DC to Chicago via NYC and mapped the whole route.... It was pretty cool.
Another feature of Copilot is a web interface so people can track your route and make suggestions for stops via the GPS/Web interface.

 

I have a GPS (Microsoft USB) but software to auto map while I drive is what I would like (Streets and trips doesnt do this)

I would love something like Window 1 Moving map Window 2 video of the drive from USB Web cam in windshield. So as you see the route being driven you can tell exactly where you are on the map.

or am I best off to capture the mapping portion and the video portion then stitch them together in Premier or what ever video software?

 

What do you mean by auto-map? S&T (least 2005 and newer) will create a live trail of your travel which you can save.

 

but can you interface it with video so as it runs the route it displays the video

 

So if I understand you correctly, you're looking for a Video Camera with geo-location / tracking functions or the ability to sync to a GPS?

You might want to explore the technologies used by Google and Microsoft for their street level views on their mapping products. That however, I believe, is still photography.

Other possiibilities.... check out Red Hen Systems, they have some stuff that may work for you.

 

yeah I found red hen but at $ 2800 a seat OUCH!

 

Check out Delorme, it is a good mapping software package, and a few peeps at my work have the GPS receiver and like it a lot. You can have voice recognition to show you routes and nearby poi's. It's not too expensive at all, $69.95 with the receiver and all, plus your own laptop. You can even get crazy and add a laptop mount in the car for all this, kinda like a police cruiser setup.
I use the software to map out our business locations throughout the south. There is a lot you can do with the software

http://shop.delorme.com/OA_HTML/DELi...&section=10048

 

To do that I think you'd have to point a video camer at your screen and sync up the videos.

Not what you're looking for but here is a link to the audio equivalent, might be able to adapt for your needs:
http://www.geotourguide.com/node/6

What is the targeted end use?

 

End user is myself driving on local roads to publish video and road guide for MINI group