Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyway, I'd like to buy a gps, but i have some specific requirements. Probably the best way to explain them is to tell the story of what i'd like to achieve.
I'd also like to have a GPS with a rechargable battery that can log positions and upload the saved logs to a computer without having to do anything manually. I've tried two that do some part of this but not the rest: The Sony GPS-CS1 automatically logs to a flash file while it is turned on, and when you plug it into USB the storage is under control of the computer, so it can copy the files from the device and then clear them out of its file system without manual intervention. But it uses a normal AA battery and only gets a few hours of use from it, so you have to manually swap batteries and remember to do it before it runs down. The Magellan Explorist 500 has a rechargable battery and, starting from a full charge, can pretty much log all day. But it differentiates between the "active track" and tracks that have been saved to a file, and only the saved tracks are accessible from the computer, so you have to manually save and clear the active track before you can use the data from the computer. Continuous logging to a file and a rechargable battery seem like such an obvious combination that somebody must have done it... but I don't know who. Eric _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
