Re: [talk-au] Pruning GPS tracks

2009-11-18 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Peter Ross wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM, ed...@billiau.net wrote: http://activityworkshop.net/software/prune/index.html I've found this but not yet tried it. Looks interesting I will have to take it for a spin. The program that I'm currently using is viking

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread John Smith
2009/11/18 Liz ed...@billiau.net: it needs to be able to run open source stuff Almost all phones can run open source software, you'd need to be more specific about what you want to run and find out if that or something similar runs on the platform. have some decent battery life (that's the

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote: 2009/11/18 Liz ed...@billiau.net: it needs to be able to run open source stuff Almost all phones can run open source software, you'd need to be more specific about what you want to run and find out if that or something similar runs on the platform. i

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread John Smith
2009/11/18 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: i like being able to choose exactly which apps are on the freerunner obviously i want decent gps and mapping apps All smart phones can run virtually any app you can think of i am not really into playing music, videos, browsing the net from the

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote: 2009/11/18 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: i like being able to choose exactly which apps are on the freerunner obviously i want decent gps and mapping apps All smart phones can run virtually any app you can think of i am not really into

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread John Smith
2009/11/18 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: So who has a whizbang phone which they would recommend?? I'm trying to be diplomatic about this :) It really depends what apps you want to run. If you want to run navit, it's been ported to Android, although it may also work on the linux based

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote: 2009/11/18 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: So who has a whizbang phone which they would recommend?? I'm trying to be diplomatic about this :) It really depends what apps you want to run. If you want to run navit, it's been ported to Android,

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread Graeme Wilson
My 2 cents worth about mobile phones: Absolutely make sure you have the 850 to 900 Mhz band if you want range. If you rely on 1900 or 2100 MHz you will only get 4 km. The best range I have got so far is 46.6 km with my personal phone. I doubt you can buy a new phone with only GSM these

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread John Smith
2009/11/18 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: I don't know what phones run Android. Unfortunately there is very few phones available in Australia at present, there is the option of importing one. Trying to find the cheap import site I found a couple of weeks ago, but there is this local one:

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread James Andrewartha
2009/11/18 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote: 2009/11/18 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: i like being able to choose exactly which apps are on the freerunner obviously i want decent gps and mapping apps All smart phones can run virtually any app you

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread John Smith
2009/11/18 James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au: The most open phone is the Nokia N900 - root is easy to get, and it's most similar to a desktop Linux. Unfortunately Nokia decided not to sell it in Australia, so you'd have to import it from the US. US 3G frequencies are different to most

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread John Smith
This news item was posted today: http://www.androidguys.com/2009/11/18/tattoo-and-hero-arrive-in-australia/ Harvey Norman has an exclusive deal to sell unlocked HTC Hero and HTC Tattoo ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-18 Thread David Dean
Michael, Can you please submit your patches to the slippymap plugin for NearMap to the JOSM trac at josm.openstreetmap.de (if you haven't already) so that the mainline slippymap plugin can handle NearMap without us having to download patched versions. Thanks, - David Michael-557 wrote: In

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread John Smith
Found the cheap phone site I was looking for: http://www.fizi.com/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au