Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-27 Thread Gervase Markham
Richard Fairhurst wrote: > IME the NaviGPS is not as reliable or as intuitive as I would like. > These units are going to be used by children and primary school > teachers so this is a worry. I have a NaviGPS, and I wouldn't put it in the hands of a child and expect them to understand it. It

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-22 Thread Lars Aronsson
Richard Fairhurst wrote: > They need to be super easy to use, robust, reliable, easy to > connect to Windows PCs (ideally without drivers), cheap, and > available now or imminently. A newly recruited Swedish contributor (user:Grillo) seems to be very happy with the Globalsat DG-100. Good valu

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread Jon Burgess
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 12:24 +, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > IME the NaviGPS is not as reliable or as intuitive as I would like. > These units are going to be used by children and primary school > teachers so this is a worry. > I'm fairly sure I read some time ago that Scytex/Locosys made a

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread John McKerrell
On 20 Mar 2008, at 14:47, Jon Stockill wrote: > John McKerrell wrote: > >> Is that a problem? It's still cheap at £42.99. As far as I can >> tell the only potential problem is going to be battery life >> compared to a non-logging bluetooth GPS. Has anyone used one of >> these? I'm very t

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread Jon Stockill
John McKerrell wrote: > Is that a problem? It's still cheap at £42.99. As far as I can tell > the only potential problem is going to be battery life compared to a > non-logging bluetooth GPS. Has anyone used one of these? I'm very > tempted to just go ahead and get one as I think it will be

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread John McKerrell
On 20 Mar 2008, at 14:14, Sven Anders wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 20. März 2008 13:54 schrieb John McKerrell: >> On 20 Mar 2008, at 12:36, Jon Stockill wrote: >>> Richard Fairhurst wrote: Does anyone have any better suggestions? The Royaltek and i-Blue 747 units mentioned on the GPS

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread Sven Anders
Am Donnerstag, 20. März 2008 13:54 schrieb John McKerrell: > On 20 Mar 2008, at 12:36, Jon Stockill wrote: > > Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >> Does anyone have any better suggestions? The Royaltek and i-Blue 747 > >> units mentioned on the GPS Reviews page looks interesting. > > > > The Holux M241 lo

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread paul youlten
I was thinking of getting one of these solar powered GPS receivers for my son: http://www.qstarz.com/Products/GPS%20Products/BT-Q1200-F.htm My Qstarz receiver (BT-810) is super reliable and quite rugged enough for Primary School children. I haven't seen the PC interface for the new models. Their

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread John McKerrell
On 20 Mar 2008, at 12:36, Jon Stockill wrote: > Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >> Does anyone have any better suggestions? The Royaltek and i-Blue 747 >> units mentioned on the GPS Reviews page looks interesting. > > The Holux M241 looks interesting. USB, bluetooth, large memory, > reasonable cost. N

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > Does anyone have any better suggestions? The Royaltek and i-Blue 747 > units mentioned on the GPS Reviews page looks interesting. I am very happy with my Wintec WBT-201, it is robust and easy to use, but the downside is no display and thus no visual feedback about the ID of the waypoint

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread Jon Stockill
Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Does anyone have any better suggestions? The Royaltek and i-Blue 747 > units mentioned on the GPS Reviews page looks interesting. The Holux M241 looks interesting. USB, bluetooth, large memory, reasonable cost. Not sure of any UK suppliers yet though. Jon

[OSM-talk] GPS recommendation

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, An organisation I'm in touch with is considering buying some GPS loggers for OSM use. They need to be super easy to use, robust, reliable, easy to connect to Windows PCs (ideally without drivers), cheap, and available now or imminently. I'm slightly reluctant about the two old f