Hi Rob, On 17 March 2013 16:26, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Going back a few years before GPS was widely available in pretty much > everything bar the kitchen sink (please do post a link if you find a gps > enabled sink :-) ) there was some discussion about making your own GPS > receiver. If anyone is interested in taking this on as a nice weekend > project, I have found that adafruit have a good guide for linking a GPS > receiver to a Raspberry Pi. All components are reasonably priced and the > guide covers everthing except running a RPi from a battery (google will help > here). > > http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-ultimate-gps-on-the-raspberry-pi/introduction
I recently had a similar thought when my friend found this: http://emerythacks.blogspot.fr/2013/01/u-blox-pci-5s-cheap-gps-module-for-your.html It's an $8 ready to use GPS module. You could build a receiver with a battery, flash storage and some sort of display for under $15 with this. It won't be the best precision receiver but it also won't be much worse than current best unaugmented GPS-only receivers (with EGNOS/WAAS). Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
