No, I don't. Actually, I don't even need the ability to see the maps, since I don't want to spend so much money on such a device.
It's a shame that Amazon does not ship to Brazil. I think that I'll be able to get one for the normal price someday when a friend of mine travels to US, or someday when I travel - maybe SotM '10? :) The most important question: if I get a GPS device with this SIRFstar III chipset, being from Garmin or not, would I get the same performance than Vista HCx have? Thanks a lot. 2009/10/20 Morten Kjeldgaard <[email protected]> > > On 19/10/2009, at 16.44, Arlindo Pereira wrote: > > > However, a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx costs US$933/EUR 636 here in > > Brazil, AFAIC way more expensive then elsewhere. I also don't need > > that graphical representation. What GPS do you recomend that have > > the same capabilities of fast connection, SD card logging and adding > > waypoints easily - i.e, the same chipset? Searching on the wiki, I > > found this huge list [1], if I search for GPS that have the same > > chip as that Garmin, would I get the same fast connection? > > That price is complete ripoff. Like Jeremy says, you should be able to > buy it _much_ cheaper from the Internet! > > Do you really need the electronic compass and the barometric altimeter > functions? The eTrex Legend HCx has received very good reviews and by > many considered the "standard" tool for OSM work. > > The eTrex models have letters that specify some of their specs. Most > important these days is to get one that has an "H" which means it has > the "high-sensitivity" SIRFstar III chipset [0]. The "C" specifies a > colour screen, and the "x" specifies that it can log to a microSD > card. You definitely want that, and let's face it, the colour screen > is very nice. > > Amazon sells the Legend HCx at $184. The Vista HCx is $230, so you pay > $46 extra for the altimeter and compass functions. > > Cheers, > Morten > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > -- Arlindo Saraiva Pereira Jr. Bacharelando em Sistemas de Informação - UNIRIO - uniriotec.br Consultor de Software Livre da Uniriotec Consultoria - uniriotec.com Acadêmico: [email protected] Profissional: [email protected] Geral: [email protected] Tel.: +5521 92504072 Jabber/Google Talk: [email protected] Skype: nighto_sumomo Chave pública: BD065DEC
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