On Saturday 07 Jun 2008 21:24, Easwar Hariharan wrote: > > the script converts the output from the device to gpx format - > > for any other device, gpsbabel is available > > That means we could,potentially,contribute to freemap with GPS > enabled cell phones if we had a way to *record* the position(and > co-ordinates)of landmarks like the device which will be distributed > does.
You can if the cell phone has a satellite based gps (not an assisted gps which uses cell tower for triangulation). > So,if we don't want progress on freemap to be restricted by > the number of devices[I'm going to call this device MuktTrack] > available,we need a software which can be installed on cell phones > and records co-ordinates,eh?Then we get the output of that software > and convert it to gpx by either this script or gpsbabel,whichever > is applicable.Comments please. Afaik most will have some software for recording tracks. There are also many gpld and freebeer java apps. However the cost of the phones with gps is a killer. And before i forget, Alpesh Gajbe is also testing out one device. Thanks to him too. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
