On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:48 AM, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 24/04/2008 19:57, Laurence Penney wrote: > > I quite liked my Nokia N70 + BlueGPS (Sirf3, non-logging) + > > nmea_info.py combo. So much so that I bought another BlueGPS when I > > left my first one on a train in a good position near the window. I > > can't find its replacement now, so wonder if I left that in a taxi, > > bleary-eyed after some flight. Having an all-in-one is quite a bit > > less hassle so I'm sticking with my N95 + SportsTracker for now - will > > be good for a day out when I buy a spare battery. > > I've been very happy with my Nokia N810 internet tablet. The built-in > GPS seems pretty good - I thought it had lost it going through some > light woodland the other day, as I was on a bit of already mapped road, > but in fact mine was right and the existing was wrong. Of course it does > lose signal sometimes. When I bought it I did some side-by-side session > with my Garmin Geko 301 and I think the Nokia was more accurate and lost > the signal less often. > > I've adapted the in-car holder to be a handlebar mount on my bike, and > made some minimal changes to its Maemo Mapper application so that I get > one-touch-anywhere-on-the-screen auto-numbered waypoints (which means I > can wear gloves in winter and still get waypoints). I can use a > bluetooth earphone/mic to take an audio commentary on the device, and > when I get home the WAV files and GPX files can just be copied over the > network on WiFi and synced in JOSM using the continuous audio features I > added. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > I bought a Garmin HCx Vista. Does the "high sensitivity" mean that it's better than other receivers or that they are just now catching up to other receivers? -- http://bowlad.com
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