Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
Ulf Lamping wrote: Well, the zumo 550 (which is very certainly a somewhat roughetized nuvi) has no snap to road setting (it has not a lot of options in that regard at all). I did made experiments with the track log. Some of the tracks did *suspiciously* looked like a snap to road while

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-06 Thread Tanveer Singh
2009/1/6 Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Stephen Hope schrieb: It's not hard to test. When I was unsure if my device was doing this or not, I set it to snap to road, and then took it for a little walk along

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-06 Thread Stephen Hope
I didn't give it because I didn't remember, and it isn't what he's looking for. It was the testing of the snap-to road functions and the track-logging I remembered. It is a Mio PDA, model 7nn (720, 730?). I can't look it up right now because I loaned it to somebody for the Christmas holidays,

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Erik Johansson
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:22 PM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: the 200 series models that are available are expensive enough (the 205 being equivalent to 215 British pounds, amazon US price of $136 equivalent to 93 pounds), Wonder if that has to do with cost of topomaps? They are at least

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/6 Joseph Scanlan n7...@arrl.net On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, D Tucny wrote: What sort of control do you have over the tracklogging with the 760? None. I got mine before I got interested in OSM. I'm tempted to get an eTrex or something for mapping. I have the 60CSx, there are some things

[OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Tanveer Singh
I am getting a garmin in car unit($200) Needless to day the following two functionalities are needed 1. Read OSM maps(all nuvi can read from SD card) 2. Write gpx data with altitude and timestamp info The second point has gotten me stumped a bit, and I am torn between 3 models 205, 260 and 265T.

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/5 Erik Johansson e...@kth.se On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:22 PM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: the 200 series models that are available are expensive enough (the 205 being equivalent to 215 British pounds, amazon US price of $136 equivalent to 93 pounds), Wonder if that has to do

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Joseph Scanlan
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, D Tucny wrote: The response I received from Garmin was: Thank you for contacting Garmin International. There are several units that may fit your purpose: nuvi 500 (you get to see 1:100,000 scale Topo Maps) nuvi 775T nuvi 765T nuvi 755T Interesting. I'm using a nuvi

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/5 Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com I am getting a garmin in car unit($200) Needless to day the following two functionalities are needed 1. Read OSM maps(all nuvi can read from SD card) 2. Write gpx data with altitude and timestamp info The second point has gotten me stumped a bit,

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Ulf Lamping
Tanveer Singh schrieb: I am getting a garmin in car unit($200) Needless to day the following two functionalities are needed 1. Read OSM maps(all nuvi can read from SD card) 2. Write gpx data with altitude and timestamp info The second point has gotten me stumped a bit, and I am torn between

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Joseph Scanlan
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, D Tucny wrote: What sort of control do you have over the tracklogging with the 760? None. I got mine before I got interested in OSM. I'm tempted to get an eTrex or something for mapping. Still, expensive... costco.com (here in the US) had a good price for the nuvi 760

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/5 Joseph Scanlan n7...@arrl.net On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, D Tucny wrote: The response I received from Garmin was: Thank you for contacting Garmin International. There are several units that may fit your purpose: nuvi 500 (you get to see 1:100,000 scale Topo Maps) nuvi 775T nuvi 765T

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: In the end it might be easier (and not even a lot more expensive) to buy a cheap car navi (Garmin 200W ~100EUR) for navigation and a cheap GPS logger (Wintec WBT 201 ~ 100EUR) or Outdoor GPS (Garmin eTrex ~150 EUR)

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/1/6 Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: In the end it might be easier (and not even a lot more expensive) to buy a cheap car navi (Garmin 200W ~100EUR) for navigation and a cheap GPS logger (Wintec WBT

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:26 AM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: 2009/1/6 Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: In the end it might be easier (and not even a lot more expensive) to buy a cheap car navi (Garmin

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Stephen Hope
It's not hard to test. When I was unsure if my device was doing this or not, I set it to snap to road, and then took it for a little walk along the edge and then cut some corners in a park, then looked at the tracks. For my specific device (not a Zumo), I discovered that the on screen and main

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Ulf Lamping
Stephen Hope schrieb: It's not hard to test. When I was unsure if my device was doing this or not, I set it to snap to road, and then took it for a little walk along the edge and then cut some corners in a park, then looked at the tracks. For my specific device (not a Zumo), I discovered

Re: [OSM-talk] Which entry level budget garmin

2009-01-05 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Stephen Hope schrieb: It's not hard to test. When I was unsure if my device was doing this or not, I set it to snap to road, and then took it for a little walk along the edge and then cut some corners in a park,