[Talk-ca] Toronto Mappy Hour Tuesday

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, Did you know that there is a Toronto OSM meetup group? We meet roughly monthly, including tomorrow Tuesday 15 June 2010 The Pilot Pub 22 Cumberland Street (near Yonge and Bloor) We'll start at 6:30pm and go for at least an hour, but usually interesting conversation keeps us longer

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Mappy Hour Tuesday

2010-06-14 Thread Sam Vekemans
. and for those who can't make it there physically, the #osm-ca (Dedicated Canada Chat room on oftc.net) is always on available to answer questions :-) For Ontario specifically, we need volunteers who wants to work on the Ontario Parks Trails (from Land Information Ontario). It's on my

[Talk-ca] GPS Suggestions

2010-06-14 Thread Colin McGregor
I was talking to an old friend this afternoon, and it looks like I might have another Open Street Map ... victim :-) . So, next question being what GPS should he get. My person preferred solution (the GPS receiver that came Microsoft Streets and Trips) fails on the portability area. Here are the

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS Suggestions

2010-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com wrote: I was talking to an old friend this afternoon, and it looks like I might have another Open Street Map ... victim :-) . So, next question being what GPS should he get. My person preferred solution (the GPS receiver

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS Suggestions

2010-06-14 Thread Gregory
A lot of OSM-ers love the Garmin Etrex Legend HCx. It's got everything you want for a good price. Cheaper and you tend to start losing a lot for not that much money saving, more expensive and your jumping up to things like touch screen and latest/fashionable plastic case. The Legend is also so