Re: [OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-12-21 Thread Mike N
On 12/21/2011 4:29 AM, Ed Loach wrote: Do any of the 4 alternatives in the Amazon review here help? Yes - A direct link to the review with 4 alternatives is here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3RAKYFG6DOERN/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00542NVS2&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode= __

Re: [OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-12-21 Thread Ed Loach
Mike asked: > A common method of photo surveying in OSM is to take a picture of > the > GPS while it displays the GPS Satellite time. On the eTrex 30, I can > only display the time to the nearest minute. Has anyone found a > screen > to display the seconds? If not, it is useless as a referen

Re: [OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-12-20 Thread Mike N
On 12/20/2011 6:46 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: On some Garmin devices, the full time including seconds is only displayed in a 'wide' data field whereas 'narrow' / 'normal' data fields will only display HH:MM. See if there's that distinction on the Garmins you use. Thanks, Finally found it - W

Re: [OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-12-20 Thread Greg Troxel
A common method of photo surveying in OSM is to take a picture of the GPS while it displays the GPS Satellite time. On the eTrex 30, I can only display the time to the nearest minute. Has anyone found a screen to display the seconds? If not, it is useless as a reference time source

Re: [OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-12-20 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 21.12.2011 00:06, Mike N wrote: only display the time to the nearest minute. Has anyone found a screen to display the seconds? If not, it is useless as a reference time source and we may need to lobby Garmin for an update. Can you trigger a marker? Then take a pictue the moment you do so. Th

Re: [OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-12-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
On some Garmin devices, the full time including seconds is only displayed in a 'wide' data field whereas 'narrow' / 'normal' data fields will only display HH:MM. See if there's that distinction on the Garmins you use. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Mike N wrote: > A common method of photo surve

Re: [OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-12-20 Thread Jo
Here I show another method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZj1rs3Ul0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=180InFUZiDI Polyglot 2011/12/21 Mike N > A common method of photo surveying in OSM is to take a picture of the GPS > while it displays the GPS Satellite time. On the eTrex 30, I can only >

Re: [OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-12-20 Thread Mike N
A common method of photo surveying in OSM is to take a picture of the GPS while it displays the GPS Satellite time. On the eTrex 30, I can only display the time to the nearest minute. Has anyone found a screen to display the seconds? If not, it is useless as a reference time source and we

[OSM-talk] Vista eTrex 10,20,30 series

2011-11-28 Thread Mike N
In the toy gadget category, there's the new Garmin eTrex 10,20, and 30 GPS Navigator / logger. I recently had a chance to get hands on one of these to see if I could measure the effect of additional GLONASS satellites on measurement. While a full analysis would be very complex, I wanted to a