>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniel> My two biggest annoyances with the device. It can take as Daniel> much as two minutes to access the tracklogs with a big old Daniel> "loading" screen. Tracklogs only store points based on adding Daniel> a new point when you travel so much distance. For many Daniel> applications I would rather have a datapoint every second or Daniel> few seconds instead. I bought a BU-353 recently. Plug it in, it starts sending NMEA sentences at 4800 baud. Gpsd was talking to the device, and I used "gpspipe -r" to cat the data into a file. I've got complete second-by-second track information for a trip to the bay area i took a couple months ago. I haven't gotten around to figuring out how to draw it nicely on a map, but the data is there. Daniel> Garmin does it like that. Actually the garmin I have is a little more clever. It does something like this: if the new point is a reasonable projection from the last two points, drop the last point. If you are clicking along at a constant speed and direction, it'll drop the intermediate redundant points from the track data. That's with a 12CX. Ends up giving you pretty good fidelity on the route you took without wasting precious storage. -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PDXLUG (a Portland Linux user group) mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug & #orlug
