On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Joseph Smith wrote:
> I am new to the gnhlug community and wanted to introduce myself.
Welcome!
GNHLUG is pretty loosely (dis)organized. There's this list, the
website (which anyone can edit), and a various regular meetings
scattered around the state. You'
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Dan Miller wrote:
> I'm looking at upgrading my phone. Even though I won't get 3G, I'm
> looking at the Nokia N900. Has anyone used it? What are your thoughts?
That and the Motorola Backflip are the two that I'm looking at. Would
appreciate any thoughts.
jeff
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Joshua Judson Rosen writes:
> (we're a Debian household)
I found this phrase to be entertaining...it just rolled off Joshua's
tongue with the same ease that somebody might say:
"we're a vegetarian household"
"we're a kosher household"
"we have cats in our household"
"we watch the Boston Brui
I'm looking at upgrading my phone. Even though I won't get 3G, I'm
looking at the Nokia N900. Has anyone used it? What are your thoughts?
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
wrote:
> And *then* we discovered just how much better the OSM maps can be than
> the proprietary ones ... which makes perfect sense to me, since there's
> actually a
> way for bugs to be reported and fixed in OSM
One of the selling poin
thing like, `Wow..., what is wrong with these people?' :)
>
> Then I thought about it and it occured to me that the TomTom units
> might actually make reasonably nice little `palmtop' touchscreen
> computers (that just happened to include GPS as peripheral functionality).
>
> And *then* we discover
Peter Dobratz writes:
>
> We were contemplating GPS units last year, but we never completed the
> research and didn't make a purchase. That being said, it looks like
> the major players are Garmin and TomTom.
>
> Some TomTom units run Linux, see: http://opentom.org/
And Debian, apparently: when
I have a Garmin Colorado. Like many Garmins, it mounts as a USB mass
storage device and natively supports GPX files. No special drivers
needed. It even supports firmware updates by dropping the update
package in the right place in the filesystem and rebooting. Again, no
special drivers, utiliti
We were contemplating GPS units last year, but we never completed the
research and didn't make a purchase. That being said, it looks like
the major players are Garmin and TomTom.
Some TomTom units run Linux, see: http://opentom.org/
However, Garmin may be more ubiquitous. It looks like newer Ga
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:51 AM, wrote:
> Towards that end, I'd like to get a new GPS that is OpenStreetMap
> compatible. My google-fu is pretty lacking - as many list members may
> have noticed over the years. The OpenStreetMap site(s) I've visited
> haven't been too illuminating. Does anyon
I've got an old un-upgradable GPS unit that I'd like to replace. (At this
point the maps are old enough that I've been directed out in the weeds
quite a few times. Umm, that is NOT the point of a GPS...)
Towards that end, I'd like to get a new GPS that is OpenStreetMap
compatible. My google
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