Richard Fairhurst wrote: > The one recommendation I'd give is: if you're expecting to be at all > serious about OSM, grit your teeth and pay for a decent Garmin.
I would be interested to hear how you would rate that solution compared to one involving a bluetooth GPS mouse and using e.g. a cell phone to do the recording and display of OSM maps. With GPS bluetooth receivers selling already at about 20 to 30 pounds, this solution seems quite a bit cheaper than buying a Garmin. I can't really comment on the quality of reception, as I haven't had a Garmin my self, but at least the other points you mentioned, such as built-in OSM mapping, storage capacity ease of use, ... should be achievable with a phone given the right software such as e.g. GpsMid (Trekbuddy or WhereAmI, might work as well, but I haven't tried those). At least for me, the combination of a SE K550 phone with GpsMid works pretty well and I would recommend it, but then I might be a little biased towards GpsMid ;-) Kai > > I'm now using an eTrex Legend HCx (having started with a basic yellow > eTrex, then moved up to a Geko 201) and the difference it makes is > enormous: quality of reception, in-built OSM mapping, storage > capacity, ease of use, ease of marking waypoints... it's just a > beautiful unit, and I wish I'd gone straight to it rather than > bothering with the Geko. It's such a shame to see people struggling > with gpsbabel, drivers etc. when you can just plug a USB cable into a > higher-end eTrex and download the tracks in mass storage mode. > > Personally I don't get on with the NaviGPS at all, finding it a > fiddly, unreliable, counter-intuitive little beastie, and would > happily see it consigned to ocean floor surveying duties. But if > you're a happy Linux command-line hacker you may have more luck with > it than me. > > cheers > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk