An unofficial and free mod for FS2020 to load Google Maps textures

Re:An unofficial and free mod for FS2020 to load Google Maps... by lapetitejort on Monday November 08, 2021 @06:32PM (#29155723)

My dad hooked up a GPS to his laptop with a serial port and successfully used it with Microsoft Streets as perhaps one of the first car GPS navigation systems, maybe back in 2000 or so. MS bought Streets in 1994, four years before Google was founded. They dropped the ball with maps.

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Re:An unofficial and free mod for FS2020 to load Google Maps... by gambiting on Monday November 08, 2021 @07:51PM (#29156349)

Fyi, first GPS navigation system fitted to a production car came in 1990:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_navigation_system

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Re:An unofficial and free mod for FS2020 to load Google Maps... by bluedino on Monday November 08, 2021 @08:42PM (#29156694)

MS streets and trips was available at OfficeMax for $50, though.

We used that suction cup attached blue LED USB GPS receiver and a laptop for war driving, so much fun.

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Re:An unofficial and free mod for FS2020 to load Google Maps... by tfigment on Monday November 08, 2021 @07:51PM (#29156350)

I did something like this around 1999 to do house hunting in Boston area. Didn't actually work that well for me though.

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