-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Hill wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Erik Söderström <e...@yi.se> >> My name is Erik Söderström and I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. >> I'm fairly new to this project, but have quickly been drawn in due to my >> fascination of all things free. >> >> I work as an IT-admin at a logistics company (haulage). We currently >> have six trucks that are GPS-enabled, and those send in data to our >> servers (which I then compile and contribute). The problem is that the >> data is sent 3 minutes apart so the tracks are in very low resolution. >> >> I was talking to some Swedish mappers the other day, and they suggested >> I apply for a couple of these devices. I would primarily put them in >> cars that travel places not on the map (we have about 250 contracted >> vehicles). Instead of having it all automated, I think I could go the >> easy way and just give on to a driver for a month or so, retrieve the >> GPS and read data off of it. Many of them travel alot of routes not >> mapped on the Swedish mapped, and that goes especially for industrial >> areas in Gothenburg, Stockholm and in Mälardalen (region in midwest >> Sweden southeast of Stockholm). Many of them also travel to the northern >> parts of Sweden. >> >> Hopefully, this would contribute to mapping areas that not many of our >> fellow Swedish mappers are likely to travel. >> >> I'm just putting this out there... does anyone think this is a bad idea, >> and if so, why? (so that I can work on it). >> >> Cheers everyone, and thank you for the great work put into OSM which our >> business uses every day! >> > I think you would need to retrieve the data often - probably daily - before > the memory of the units is full. > > Cheers, Chris > > > >
Hm, perhaps, yes.... is there any possibility to add an SD card or something? I would buy those myself... // Erik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklzV2wACgkQTnISAlwZdKV/uQCfSytn5fK9ZL61NAi/GtZwKa+S OfcAn2RGNNXv1cSyoOsUM1tdt2oLoRKH =2jUN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk