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 value

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. Not sure

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 looks

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 Reviews page

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 14:47, 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 tempted to

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