Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
Sorry for bringing up this thread, but just a sort of follow up. The BT-757 is a very excellent GPS unit, has very good accuracy, when compared to other traces and where the roads are current mapped, and I would very quickly recommend this unit to everyone. As pointed out in previous emails, the

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-28 Thread delta_foxtrot
--- On Fri, 26/6/09, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.zedlitz.de/skytraq/ I just coded up a patch for this to dump in gpx as well. http://code.google.com/p/skytraq-datalogger/issues/detail?id=1 ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 22/6/09, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-26 Thread John Smith
I also purchased a Solar GPS Datalogger from ebay on monday night:

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-26 Thread John Smith

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Fri, 26/6/09, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: However, I still haven't been able to download the data on the device, I'm still trying to figure if it recorded anything, although the led did blink which I think indicated it was recording data... I finally managed to get it to

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Fri, 26/6/09, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I finally managed to get it to download both linux and win by switching it to logging mode, which seems silly it even responds when it was switched to the off position. Also the java app crashes when you are in logging mode using

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-26 Thread David Dean
I've had some success with that device (before mine fell apart) using gpsbabel, details here: http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_mtk.html. I'm not sure if that code is in the stable version of gpsbabel or not yet though. I think I ended up having to use the windows client under wine

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Fri, 26/6/09, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: From: David Dean dd...@ieee.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Date: Friday, 26 June, 2009, 8:28 AM I've had some success with that device (before mine fell apart) using gpsbabel, details

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-26 Thread John Smith
The java app works fine and will even export the data to GPX format etc, I just had issues firstly trying to make it work without putting it into logging mode, and then running the java app with the 64bit java binary. I just went out to test all 3 devices, they were all mounted within cm of

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-22 Thread John Smith
I just spotted an even cheaper data logger on ebay... $51 + $13 postage from Melbourne

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-08 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Sat, 30/5/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I've no intention of collecting smoothness data, there are far more interesting things to do than that. I've been reflecting on this statement over the last few days while I've been filling in roads that have been GPS tracked by not marked,

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-08 Thread Liz
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: To this end there is a solar powered GPS data logger on ebay, if no where else, that claims 100+ hours and is the cheapest out of the lot that I found. $60 + $10 postage looks neat we spent quite a few hours on the road over the last two days and about

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-30 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Sat, 30/5/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: another thing is to ask one of the oldies to name all the roads for you - some of my my acquaintance can identify all the local roads It's fairly blank at present in most rural areas I've seen, there is the odd town mapped out and I've been

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-30 Thread Liz
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: It's fairly blank at present in most rural areas I've seen, there is the odd town mapped out and I've been helping where I can, but in my opinion it's much more important getting the street/road data before anything else will really matter. We started

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-29 Thread Thomas Sprinkmeier
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 02:38 -0700, Delta Foxtrot wrote: After doing a fair bit of reading I came up with the following results: Globalsat DG-100 Chipset: SiRF StarIII cheapest found was $112 from http://www.expansys.com.au/d.aspx?i=149006 I paid a bit more:

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Hampson
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Sprinkmeier thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 02:38 -0700, Delta Foxtrot wrote: After doing a fair bit of reading I came up with the following results: Globalsat DG-100 Chipset: SiRF StarIII cheapest found was $112 from

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-29 Thread Neal Schulz
Hi, I have a QStarz BT-Q1000 and I just set it to log every 10m which also avoids the multiple points while you are stationary problem. It logs 100,00 points and has a battery life of 36 Hours. There is obviously a newer version (BT-Q1000X) but it seems compatible with the software I uses

[talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-27 Thread Delta Foxtrot
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any cheap GPS data loggers that I can lend out to people, I'm thinking postal delivery workers here, that in and off itself it won't be worth stealing, something without a screen. I'm sure there are other situations this could be useful as well, but it would

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-27 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Wed, 27 May 2009 02:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Delta Foxtrot delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm wondering if anyone knows of any cheap GPS data loggers that I can lend out to people, I'm thinking postal delivery workers here, that in and off itself it won't be worth stealing, something without a

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-27 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Wed, 27/5/09, Babstar wrote: I'm only new to OSM and GPS logging, but I found a lot of help on GPSpassion.com forums (they have a dedicated forum for data loggers). I did a fair bit of research and ended up purchasing a Qstarz BT-1000X from ebay (note, there are a three Qstarz

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-27 Thread Liz
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: Thanks for the tips that everyone replied with, will give me something to swat up on. I've looked through a few devices on ebay but while they logged a large number of points, some had a 5 second refresh which is a little too high, 1 second per point

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-27 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Wed, 27/5/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: I was going to suggest a Kogan GPS watch but they don't appear to be selling them anymore. Has 10 point data capacity, 6hours on battery or can plug into car cigarette lighter socket. Casio makes one...

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-27 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Wed, 27/5/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: some people go a lot of distance and to out of the way places look for itinerant traders - a mobile butcher, the guy who services tractors, and we use the guy who changes eftpos machines too. i asked one of highway patrol guys but they

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-27 Thread Delta Foxtrot
I came across this DIY project... http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/gps-sd-logger/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au