My GPS on the Freerunner is working very well and I have already tracked some streets for OSM with it. Additionally I have recorded a long ride with my motorcycle and compared it with OSM and googlemaps and was very surprised good the result was. (tangogps shows a GDOP between 1 and 2 and OSM recommends 4) When I want to get a fix I have to go outside (balcony is enough) turn on GPS, hold the FR vertically and do not move much and at the latest 10 Minutes I get a Fix. Did you check the connection of the GPS antenna which is mentioned in http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FreeRunner_GPS_antenna_repair_SOP (I would not solder as mentioned there but you can check visually and plug it off and in again)
Good luck Michael On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:40:36 Harald Koenig wrote: > On May 11, Ron K. Jeffries wrote: > > I for one am still hoping Freerunner at some point > > can be used as a GPS tracker to gather data for > > for Open Street Map. http://www.openstreetmap.org/ > > are you saying, that this is not possible right now? > > I just bought a gta02 this week mainly for OSM and just _now_ because I'm > heading to the OSM conference in Limerick/Ireland next week. > > right now I get _no_ fixup at all, having tried for many hours and evenings > ;-( looks like the "short antenna" detextion problem mentioned end of May. > > my currect conclution of my GTA02: > > - GPS antenna broken, gps unusable > - no grapnics acceleration (no 3d, no video, almost no 2d) -- and no docs > !!! that's not what got "advertised" in several conference talks :-( > > > IIRC the OSM people reccommend capturing data > > once per second. > > correct. > > > > Harald
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