Yes, bring your laptop. Sarah will have GPS receivers and the necessary cables. If you want to be super-plus helpful, go to http://gpsbabel.org and download it onto your laptop. That's needed to suck the data out of the GPS receiver. You might also want to have JOSM installed. http://josm.openstreetmap.de . Don't worry about configuring or using them -- Sarah is a great teacher. -russ
On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Rachel wrote: > Excellent! I just heard about all this not long ago, and was hoping > to hear of an Austin party. I am 95% sure to come. > > One question - I have a laptop, but no GPS gadgets. Should I still > bring the laptop? And if I bring it, would I have to carry it around > with me while mapping, or would it be left at the meeting place? Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/User:RussNelson [email protected] - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
