If you're specifically looking for running, Garmin make a nice range of sports gps/heartrate monitor/watches called "Forerunner". They don't provide any linux support; but gpsbabel can apparently get most data from them (including heartrate date, so you can see how your heart rate varies over time as well as the track). there's also garmintools ( http://code.google.com/p/garmintools/) but it only works on older models.
Garmin also provide a website where you can upload your data and get analysis, set goals and track your progress etc ( http://connect.garmin.com/features/). http://braiden.org/?p=62 suggests it's possible to use garmintools + some xslt to push this data from linux. If all you want is track logging, openstreetmap have a hardware guide ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hardware_Guide), which is the best listing of devices that work with Linux that I know of. The ForeRunner 201/205/305 are listed there as being useable with gpsbabel and garmintools. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Simon Males <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm hoping to buy a GPS data logger that I can take running with me. > > My main concern is for it to plug and play with Linux. I've managed to > find two such devices on eBay that support "linux". > > I expect these devices to be popular with photographers. Any sluggers use > them? > > -- > Simon Males > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
