Re: [OSM-dev] GPS Hardware Recomendation

2008-09-23 Thread Oliver Eichler
can you recommend any GPS hardware receiver (no maps, no nothing, just GPS) to use with notebook? I own a Xaiox Xplorer, a Wintec WBT 201 and a i-Blue 747. From all three I like the i-Blue most. The used MTK chip is quite resistant against reflections. The NMEA protocoll has all information

Re: [OSM-dev] GPS Hardware Recomendation

2008-09-23 Thread Oliver Eichler
The shipped software is kind of sparse and mediocre. That's an understatement! Yesterday I was slashed down for phrasing such things more precisely and accurate. Today I choose the political correct mumbo jumbo ;) Don't want to hurt anyone's feelings again... Usually you just need it

Re: [OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness

2008-09-22 Thread Oliver Eichler
Richard, Oh right, and saying Because Garmin users are brain washed and And they won't stop to cheerleader for Garmin until the day they drop dead is utterly, utterly rational and adult. And the shit recorded by Garmin is a technical description and not an emotive insult at all. you

Re: [OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness

2008-09-22 Thread Oliver Eichler
On Monday, 22. September 2008 17:42:42 Richard Fairhurst wrote: Oliver Eichler wrote: you definetly missed to cite the last line of the original posting SCNR trolling ;) Hey, if I'm being slated for daring to take the piss, you can be too. ;) LOL ok :) Oliver

Re: [OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness

2008-09-21 Thread Oliver Eichler
On Sunday, 21. September 2008 13:41:58 David Earl wrote: On 20/09/2008 22:08, Stefan de Konink wrote: I sincerely wonder why anyone in the community would buy a Garmin as tracking device after (s)he is aware that the device doesn't report h-/v-/p-dop. This is even more basic

Re: [OSM-dev] Garmin GPX madness

2008-09-21 Thread Oliver Eichler
OK, I understand now. But I still don't know what I'd do with the information if I had it. The satellites are where they are when I'm out surveying, there's nothing I can do about the positional accuracy. It's usually pretty obvious when a track has gone wildly off (usually due to woodland

Re: [OSM-dev] Call to mobile developers: OSM binary file format

2008-08-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
Good idea :) I am always tempted to do my own binary vector map format after suffering the madness by Garmin. However the wonderfull world of raster maps keeps me from doing it. Anyway, I would suggest you have a deep look into the Garmin binary sepcification. Some things are good, some are