What I still like to use a dedicated GPS for is for georeferencing the photos I take while out mapping. My camera does not have a built in GPS and I prefer to use a dedicated camera over my phone camera which would yield georeferenced images.
And maybe even more importantly, to upload the traces to the OSM server (although I badly need to catch up with that). I think that will always remain useful. Martijn On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Nathan Mills <nat...@nwacg.net> wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:05:22 -0400, Lars Ahlzen wrote: > >> I completely agree with you, though. The trace from my cellphone is >> horrifically bad compared to that of my GPSMap60, so I still use the >> latter a lot for mapping. > > What phones are you guys using? The TI chips Nokia uses seem to usually > get within about 10 feet or better anywhere where there's a reasonable > view of the sky. That's not to say it's never off, but the outliers are > usually plainly obvious when looking at the track in JOSM. > > When I go out and map new subdivisions, there is often dirt work shown > on the aerial imagery that can be used as a reference, along with the > pictures from the phone taken at 5 second intervals, so I can be pretty > certain it's close at worst. > > I could do better with a better GPS, I'm sure, but for your typical > suburban-style development the phone seems as good as anything that > doesn't involve post-processing. > > If I were trying to map individual structures, it probably wouldn't > be good enough. However, for getting the roads on the map, my N900 > works (or more accurately worked, given my recent output) just fine. > > -Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- martijn van exel geospatial omnivore 1109 1st ave #2 salt lake city, ut 84103 801-550-5815 http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
