Mappers, With all the GPS 'chat' lately I need to be careful here not to get heckled, but I am after some info if anyone can provide the goods? There is a possibility of some work coming our way for which I will need some GPS hardware. With a very limited knowledge of such hardware I need to know what would potentially be the best equipment for what I see as essentially a fairly simple job. Ultimately I want to translate some raw GPS lats/longs into MapInfo to create a database of, lets say street furniture, as an example... Our requirements: We wish to travel out to multiple sites and take fixes at those points of street furniture and then return to the office and translate the fixed eastings/northings, lat/long into maps. The hardware must therefore be able to store multiple fixes (is it possible to attach reference attributes to these features?). We would then like to download the info into a spreadsheet so that this could be transferred into MapInfo to create a spatial database of all the features (with associated attributes attached). If possible I need to know rough hardware costs. What the capabilities are of the unit(s). How the data is stored internally and what level of detail is possible. How the data is downloaded. Into a proprietary package? Into any package (if data is stored in a *.dbf format or a similar format)? If anyone out there does such a task (I'm sure I only require a fairly simple hand held unit?!?), I'd appreciate some input. Will Sum of course! Thank you very much for your time folks.... Dave _________________________________________________________ David A. Eagle WS Atkins Consultants - East Anglia Wellbrook Court, Girton Road, Cambridge, CB3 0NA. Direct Dial Tel: (01223) 814090, Fax: (01223) 277529 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
