Valent Turkovic wrote:
... Asus eee 701 is cheap and great little and
very portable laptop - just perfect for mapping! I hope you find this
howto helpful.
... If you have bluetooth GPS dongle that you have laying around, or can
borrow one from somebody, and like driving a bike or a car around then
this is the guide for you.

Agreed, the eee is great (almost as nice as the Acer Aspire One which I use) but who wants all that hassle with Linux configurations and lugging around even a tiny laptop (especially on your bike!) when you can just use your phone to log tracks? Many phones have GPS built in and almost all the others have Bluetooth and there are plenty of free applications (including my own, 'mom') see the wiki at... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Making_Tracks_with_Homebrew- ware#Mobile_Phones_.2F_J2ME

elvin
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