On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Ivan Garcia <capiscuas at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Tom Lancaster <tom at grubbyconsulting.com> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Ivan Garcia <capiscuas at gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi Tom, >> > >> > great job you guys with Hanoi and Sapa (maybe more others too). One of >> > the >> > requisites to apply for the donated GPS from OSM is to have a user >> > account >> > that has edited many times in OSM, I guess that you guys, have one, >> > would >> > you mind to apply for it and donate to HCMC group? >> > >> >> I have just done so. Fingers crossed. > > Hi Tom, great that you guys have applied for the GPS. Hope you get it.
We did, and they're willing to give us more than one unit. The only catch is it's a Garmin Geko, and they don't yet have cables for them. I'm wondering if anyone on this list knows about the availability and pricing of garmin -> serial / usb cables here, or in HCMC. Regards, Tom > > >> >> Incidentally, I took a look at the osm Saigon map and there's been a >> lot of progress already since I last visited. So much so that I've >> switched newhanoian's sister site, http://so-saigon.xemzi.com to use >> openstreetmap tiles, too. > > I wish you the best of lucks for your site that now uses OSM data. > >> >> >> If we get a free GPS we'd be very happy to pass it on to someone who >> pledged to put some work into the Saigon map. >> >> > I'm not currently in Vietnam but I know the HCMC community very well >> > and I >> > also the person most interested to do this kind of job of tracking with >> > the >> > GPS to be uploaded later to OSM. >> >> Do you mean you know the person, or you are the person > > I'm not the person cause I live in Spain now (I stayed in Vietnam during 1 > and half year before), but I made a lot of contacts with people in HCMC > with Open mind that would be willing to borrow your GPS and take the > motorbike during plenty of hours to map the whole province. > > If you guys get it, we'll talk about which people can be candidate. > > Best Regards. > Ivan > > > _______________________________________________ > POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines > _______________________________________________ > HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/ >
