Re: [OSM-talk-be] The Gisteq GPS USB Dongle

2009-07-14 Thread Marc Coevoet
Peter Leemans schreef: > Hoi Marc, > > I can second this. > I used up untill yesterday (I stupidly lost it while tracking) a same > (but rebranded) I-Blue bt747. > As I'm a linux user, I used mtkbabel to read the data. > > mtkbabel and gpsd, I suppose. In fact, I do not need the gps dongle f

Re: [OSM-talk-be] The Gisteq GPS USB Dongle

2009-07-14 Thread Patrick Weemeeuw
Perhaps I should comment a bit with my experienes using a USB GPS dongle with a linux device (eee, with solid state disk) it's lots of fun, if, and that's a big if, you like tinkering with all kinds of things. It's nice to be able to integrate in one device voice recording, track recording, na

Re: [OSM-talk-be] The Gisteq GPS USB Dongle

2009-07-14 Thread Marc Verwerft
Hello Marc, The main difference between the devices that Peter and Luc use and you GISTEQ dongle is that the GISTEQ dongle has no builtin memory for tracking. In other words, they just put their device in their pocket and start walking. Later on they connect to a PC and do read out of the data to

Re: [OSM-talk-be] The Gisteq GPS USB Dongle

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Leemans
Hoi Marc, I can second this. I used up untill yesterday (I stupidly lost it while tracking) a same (but rebranded) I-Blue bt747. As I'm a linux user, I used mtkbabel to read the data. It's indeed a excellent device, and have also logged from Italy to Belgium (by car, 13 hours every second, abo

Re: [OSM-talk-be] The Gisteq GPS USB Dongle

2009-07-13 Thread Luc Van den Troost
Hi, For some time now I use http://www.gpsshop.be/product/64337/qstarz-bt-q818x-bluetooth-gps-receiver.html Price at gpsshop is currently 76 euro. It can be used by connecting it over USB, or over bluetooth. The software with the device is windows only - and is quite good - but I am using it m

[OSM-talk-be] The Gisteq GPS USB Dongle

2009-07-13 Thread Marc Coevoet
Hello, Did anybody use this one: http://www.expansys.be/d.aspx?i=178141 for sale at Maplins too: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=256536&C=SO&U=strat15 I want to use it with linux. Tech data/info: GiSTEQ’s USB GPS dongle is GPS receiver with a size of a USB drive. Its compact s