On 12-04-09 11:39 , James Ewen wrote: > > The quality of GPS receivers are about even these days. Give the unit > a good view of the sky and it will tell you where you are.
My experience with phone GPSs is different. The tracks I've got from two phones - a Blackberry Tour and an iPhone 4s - are much noisier than my Garmin 60Csx with a full-sized antenna. Here's an image from a test I did on a local walking path: http://glaikit.org/2010/08/21/probably-wouldnt-recommend-the-blackberry-tour-as-a-gps-logger/ No scale, sadly, but you can see that the Blackberry's track is very noisy. Still, having a slightly noisy GPS is better than none at all, so if carrying the Android would help Colin map where he otherwise wouldn't, it's all for the good. cheers, Stewart _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
