On Saturday 01 December 2007 07:41:34 pm Bill Broadley wrote: > Just wanted to mention to anyone interested. The i-blue 747 works quite > well with linux. I avoided it in the past because the only driver I could > find was windows.
Thanks for the post Bill. I have been thinking about getting something like this for path logging, but wanted to make sure that it would work well with linux. Currently I am using an old Garmin GPS 12, which can only record 1024 track points- usually enough for a single day's hike. > > Some 16KB of storage leaves it a fair bit of room for logging, and you can > specify time rates, min distance, or min speed for storing results. You > can also control what is logged. Nest. > > The unit gets substantially better reception than others I've tried, works > in my living room (not near a window) and even inside various buildings > like Sophia's. The accuracy drops of course, but I've never seen the > results get too far off. Something the GPS 12 has problems with... > I'm using (command line and perl): > http://www.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/appunti/hardware/gps_logger_i_blue >_747 > > But if java and ugly GUIs are your thing: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bt747 Have you tried any of the other tools for working with GPS data out there: gpsd gpsbabel gpstrans ? > In any case if you wanted a GPS to record tracks but didn't want to carry a > fragile pda with limited battery life (like say a nokia 770) on a mountain > bike ride you could use this and record a track like: > http://broadley.org/bill/yum-tahoe-epic.png > > It even has a button for recording POIs. Thanks for the review- I know what I am getting for Christmas this year! Dylan > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech