Hi Olivia,
and first of all I apologize to react out of context to a cited email.
> We need to go driving around rural Haiti actually to map a bunch of stuff we
are going to be putting onto OSM eventually.
If you want to map then putting it onto OSM which offers a proven
infrastructure (with maps downloadable at no cost to your or
anybody else's device) is probably by far the best option.
(I don't think this is controversial. There is little
incentive for commercial companies like google you
mention later.)
> BUT we really don't have a way to navigate as yet.
If your primary rationale is mapping then navigating is
only the 1st step. Much more important is that
you know how to and what to map and how to handle the device.
I (technology affine) have needed a few iterations to
get useful data from the device I was using. No problem
over here (because feedback cycles were less than 24h)
but a real pity if you waste a complete tour.
You should attribute at least an quarter of a day (technology affine)
to get acquainted with the device and acquire data of your local surroundings.
And at least 1/4th of a day to do the first real contribution
of this data to OSM.
Otherwise chances are very high that the mapping rationale
is not met. .
There still are less than 100 gpx traces for Haiti uploaded to openstreetmap
so your contributions would make a difference!
( http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/tag/Haiti )
> Stitching together and printing out GoogleEarth
Not seen them but compare to
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=18.5401&lon=-72.3503&zoom=13&layers=M
Pierre has given a good link for Haiti maps. (Which uses the same data
as the above link)
To train locally you could maybe download a map from here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/All_in_one_Garmin_Map
and have a start at mapping.
If mapping is among your first rationales then the time will
be worth spent.
Greetings,
Frieder
Am 06.12.2011 23:13, schrieb Pierre Béland:
Olivia
I am proposing you an opendata solution for your GPS. The Haiti page at
Geofabrik contains up to date openstreetmap data, including a Garmin map to be
imported directly into Garmin GPS units. It might be what your looking for. see
http://labs.geofabrik.de/haiti/
I dont know what type of GPS you will have, but here a solution that work with
my Garmin GPS Vista HCX. It works normally with GPS that have an SD Cards that
permite to load higher volume of data.
We import archive latest.garmin-gmapsupp.zip
<http://labs.geofabrik.de/haiti/latest.garmin-gmapsupp.zip>, decompress and
copy the file *gmapsupp.img* into *Garmin subdirectory* of the GPS unit.
Depending on the size of the gmasupp.img file, you might need an SD card
greater then 2 Gb. My GPS accepts an SD card of 8Gb.
From there, you just open your GPS and everything ready.
regards
//
/Pierre Béland /
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Olivia Stinson 2011-12-06 16:21:32
Maybe you can help me with a suggestion.
> We need to go driving around rural Haiti actually to map a bunch of stuff
we are going to be putting onto OSM eventually. BUT we really don't have a way to
navigate as yet. We are getting new GPS units
tomorrow, a kind that Severin suggested we get... but I have not seen them
yet so don't know about using them for this. Our other little GPS was too
simple to load maps.
What would you suggest for navigating? Stitching together and printing out
GoogleEarth files so we can see where we are? There seem to be a few roads on
there..
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