Depending on how much OSM you want to do, you might be better off buying
the car GPS based on its features and get a GPS data logger:
That may be sensible whether OSM is hi or low. I like the control using a
non-car GPS in car gives me, but that is considered abnormal - I have put my
unit in
On 04/26/2010 09:51 AM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote:
Does anyone have direct experience with
GPS units that work with OSM and are decent? Oh, and the GPS unit is
recent enough that I could buy it new?
Depending on how much OSM you want to do, you might be better off buying
the car GPS
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
The reason that I suggested the Touch Book, specifically for GPS use,
is that I'd heard from other people that it
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
Route finding and estimating is useful if you're already on
the road and want to make an unexpected change. Audible turn-by-turn
directions are useful if you
Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
People have different requirements around that, too: I was somewhat
surprised, for example, to find that Nokia's N810 (GPS-enabled) tablet
comes with a dashboard-mount... that *screws into* the dashboard.
*cough*
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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
People have different requirements around that, too: I was somewhat
surprised, for example, to find that Nokia's N810 (GPS-enabled) tablet
comes with a dashboard-mount... that *screws into* the dashboard.
I'm not
We bought Droids a couple of weeks ago and now the N810 collects dust.
Nice! I have always been a big Motorola fan, I will be getting a Droid in a
few months when the contract contract on my VE20 runs out. Can hardly wait
:-)
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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
teacher decided to force logs on us... by way of a slide rule.
Back in the dark ages, my HS physics chemistry instructors had us do
the formulae with sliderules for weeks before we got to bring in our
fancy pricey scientific calculators (HP-25c is 1976). This was NOT to
push logarithms on us but
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote:
How do you find it works with Linux? Or do you? :)
eTrex work great with gpsbabel.
provided you have right cable. Garmin has made three different cables,
two for RS232 serial and most recently USB.
Gpsbabel is great.
Newer,
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote:
I've actually had fairly good results using GPS units belonging to
friends. They were not perfect, but nothing is. I've made mistakes
plotting routes manually, too.
I do much prefer to plan my route ahead of
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
... books are better then eReaders.
Stone tablets are obviously superior. ;-)
FWIW, I have a garmin.
How do you find it works with Linux? Or do you? :)
-- Ben
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I have my GPS on all the time, even when I don't need directions.
I just have a humble little unhacked Mio C320 but was pleased to discover
an unexpected benefit while driving some twisty Appalachian mountain
roads at night in the fog. I usually have it rigged HUD-style (more or
less the view
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
... books are better then eReaders.
Stone tablets are obviously superior. ;-)
FWIW, I have a garmin.
How do you find it works with
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
I have my GPS on all the time, even when I don't need directions.
I just have a humble little unhacked Mio C320 but was pleased to discover
an unexpected benefit while driving some twisty Appalachian
I have my GPS on all the time, even when I don't need directions.
I just have a humble little unhacked Mio C320 but was pleased to
discover
an unexpected benefit while driving some twisty Appalachian mountain
roads at night in the fog. I usually have it rigged HUD-style (more
or
less
On 04/28/2010 08:39 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
I get lost walking back from my mailbox :-( It seems to be age
related too.
I've had my GPS for 3 years now. I've learned what it means when it
plots a route. When I don't agree with it, I ignore it (which I think
is the problem most people have
As an ex military pilot, I learned how to read a map and find out where
I am on the map.
As a sailor I was told to learn how to use a sextant. I ordered one,
and to my dismay instead of receiving a cover for the cockpit of my boat
to give me some privacy for intimate gatherings, it turned out to
On Wed, April 28, 2010 12:07 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
It is the same thing as learning how to add, subtract, multiply and
divide before you start using a calculator.
In '76, my grandfather -- a mathematician -- bought me my first
calculator. (A 7-digit red LED Commodore, no less. And,
At college (1995 or so in specific) I noticed a definite correlation between
engineering students whom I would actually trust to design something my life
depended on (bridges, pacemakers, etc.) and the ability to do math without a
fancy calculator. The newer graphing calculators doing all the
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com wrote:
I still think graphing calculators are dumb.
You can't play Tetris with just a 7-segment display.
-- Ben
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
FWIW, I have a garmin.
How do you find it works with Linux? Or do you? :)
eTrex work great with gpsbabel. Newer, fancier units mount up as mass
storage devices over USB and natively support GPX files. No problems
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
On Wed, April 28, 2010 12:07 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
It is the same thing as learning how to add, subtract, multiply and
divide before you start using a calculator.
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Subject: [OT] machines that think for you (was: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?)
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote
Eastern
Subject: [OT] machines that think for you (was: OpenStreetMap compatible
GPS?)
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
On Wed, April 28, 2010 12:07 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
It is the same thing as learning
On 04/28/2010 06:06 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
On Wed, April 28, 2010 4:49 pm, roger.levass...@comcast.net wrote:
Speaking of sliderules
And more speaking of same -- for those who want to (re-)live the past:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/be12/
That being said, they're to be
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
And *then* we discovered just how much better the OSM maps can be
than the proprietary ones ... which makes perfect sense to me,
since there's actually a way for
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure that the `$80 for one update' option is just the
`decoy effect' in action: it's there to show people that `$40 per year'
is `cheap' ...
Ah, good point!
The spot you're looking at will never be
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:51 AM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote:
Towards that end, I'd like to get a new GPS that is OpenStreetMap
compatible. My google-fu is pretty lacking - as many list members may
have noticed over the years. The OpenStreetMap site(s) I've visited
haven't been too
We were contemplating GPS units last year, but we never completed the
research and didn't make a purchase. That being said, it looks like
the major players are Garmin and TomTom.
Some TomTom units run Linux, see: http://opentom.org/
However, Garmin may be more ubiquitous. It looks like newer
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
And *then* we discovered just how much better the OSM maps can be than
the proprietary ones ... which makes perfect sense to me, since there's
actually a
way for bugs to be reported and fixed in OSM
One of
Joshua Judson Rosen writes:
(we're a Debian household)
I found this phrase to be entertaining...it just rolled off Joshua's
tongue with the same ease that somebody might say:
we're a vegetarian household
we're a kosher household
we have cats in our household
we watch the Boston Bruins in
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