Re: [Talk-ca] Low end smart phones and Open Street Map...

2012-04-10 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 12-04-09 11:39 , James Ewen wrote: The quality of GPS receivers are about even these days. Give the unit a good view of the sky and it will tell you where you are. My experience with phone GPSs is different. The tracks I've got from two phones - a Blackberry Tour and an iPhone 4s - are

[Talk-ca] Low end smart phones and Open Street Map...

2012-04-09 Thread Colin McGregor
Does anyone know how well (or badly) the low end smart phones (such as the Samsung Wave phones) are as GPS track loggers? Reason I ask is because I will be traveling to the US on business in the near future, and one of the things that makes me nervous is cell phone roaming charges. So, the

Re: [Talk-ca] Low end smart phones and Open Street Map...

2012-04-09 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how well (or badly) the low end smart phones (such as the Samsung Wave phones) are as GPS track loggers? I grab tracks with my Blackberry and use them to draw roads on OSM. The quality of GPS receivers