...and a Palm to guide her by...
April 20, 2006 11:41 AM   Subscribe

I recently fell into ownership of a Palm Tungsten E2. I'd like to use this tool to help plan and execute a trip to Ireland that my wife and I will be taking with friends this fall. Help?

So my original idea was to use my home scanner/the internet to locate jpegs of maps and the like. However, the included image viewer with the Palm doesn't zoom, making maps a big pain, and all the viewers I can find online are either wackily expensive or out of date. Can I find such a thing, or am I stuck with clunky trials?

Or would I be better off with some sort of commercial map set? I have not been able to find a whole lot covering Ireland.

For itinerary planning, I am thinking of using SmartList, which I'm 10 days into the 30 day trial of. SmartList seems to be able to build pretty much any sort of searchable, planned database I'd want. Are there any other helpful programs lurking out there?

I'd rather not spend a whole lot of cash on the Palm, but I'd like to make it more useful than the ratty notebook I've been using previously. Any help or tips you could offer would be great!
posted by robocop is bleeding to Travel & Transportation (1 answer total)
 
I don't have much advice to give you about city guides for the palm -- I wouldn't be surprised if the market had kind of died, and the information was all out of date.

But here's a kind of change of direction to propose to you.

Anything that's on the web can be downloaded to your Palm.

Get Plucker and experiment with downloading restaurant/place of interest/lodging listings or articles or background information or, if you want, entire novels about the places you're going.

The best advice I can give you, not knowing anything about Irish tourism specifically, is that most regular web pages look like crap on the Palm, but the print-friendly ones tend to do pretty well.

The Dublin Tourism site has a special version for the visually impaired which might translate very well to handhelds. Try this page of Tours and Walking Trails.

If you get yourself a decent-sized SD card, you could also save audio like the Dublin Podcasts I just discovered, and listen to it through headphones. Free Audio/Video/Graphic software I'd recommend would be TCPMP.
posted by AmbroseChapel at 5:33 PM on April 20, 2006


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