At 03:24 AM 23/03/2008, S Knox wrote: >Dear All, > >I'm going to Cuba in early April, and would like to map some of the roads >there. Unfortunately, I have discovered that GPS equiptment is not permitted >and anything found during searches will be confiscated, or at the very least >impounded until departure. > >I have looked into purchasing a data logger, due to it being less conspicuous >and less expensive should it "disappear on departure", however an exhaustive >search of the internet has failed to find anything below about £50, when >delivery to the UK is taken into account. I know that doesn't sound like much, >but it seems a lot to map somewhere when I already have a perfectly good GPS. >Does anyone know of anywhere that I could beg, rent, buy or borrow a low-value >data logging unit? I thought as these are getting much more mainstream, >particularly with businesses, there must be a second hand market, but it would >appear not. > >Regards and Happy Easter > >Steve
There's an Australian company doing dataloggers but I don't think it is in your price bracket and I'd sure they'd raise a red flag: http://homepages.tig.com.au/~robk/ http://homepages.tig.com.au/~robk/price.html Some other possible solutions: 1) If you have a digital camera that takes SD memory cards, buy a low cost GPS device that uses them. Put the card with your tracks in the camera at, shall we say, key moments. I can confirm that is quite possible to use the same card to take photos with affecting other data on the card. "See, just a camera". If you lose the device, or hand over the card you've put inside, the tracks are safe. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/GPS_Reviews In particular, many OSM members have bought a NaviGPS device from www.storagedepot.co.uk . Out of stock at the moment but around GBP 60 as I recall. 2) I have a PDA with a GPS device built-in. Expensive but very inconspicuous. Que tenga buena suerte! Mike _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
