Merkaartor does live GPS tracking, but I haven't been able to get it to work with my garmin xtrex legend. There has been discussion about this on the mailing list but haven't followed it as I don't have appropriate hardware. I think the new nokia N900 (maemo.nokia.com) would be ideal for a cheap field- book style device and merkaartor should run well on it.
I think for tagging things like roads, POI and house-numbers merkaator is perfect. version 0.14 includes a auto house-number (Karlsruhe scheme) tool. I develop a commercial surveying package for powerline design and of course use Qt, it is ideal for low power CPU's in the field with almost all of my customers using a panasonic toughbook which is quite slow but can last a whole day in the field, readable in direct sunlight and water/shock proof. If you have a spare 5k I would recommend one :-) Evan On Friday 28 Aug 2009 09:26:32 John Smith wrote: > 2009/8/28 Cosmic Charade <cosmichar...@gmail.com>: > > could be the Java implementation on my installation. I don't mind > > terribly much - I can use my desktop PC if I need to - but I just like > > the idea of live GPS trackign and POI tagging (if this is possible). For > > example - miss a traffic light and pop it on the map or whatever - or a > > road change. > > Java is a bit of a dog at the best of times, but JOSM is a nice app > and I really love being able to do GPS tracking of current position > when driving about so if a street isn't tagged I don't have to figure > out where I've driven just to find out the street is already named :) > This happened to me the other day, thought I had taken my GPS dongles > and left them both at home. Not happy Jan! > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
