Am 18.03.2013 04:09, schrieb Andrew Gregory: > It's all down to your application. What do you want to do that you can't do > on a $50 smartphone? One problem of smartphones is that they are battery hungry and the software tends to shut down unexpectedly. With a dedicated gps logger, I can log one entire day without having to fear that the battery is low or that some software crash erased all my data.
On the other hand, the problem with current dedicated gps logger is their absolute absence of status information: it does not show how long it is running, if they have a satellite lock, what their remaining battery is. Also, the data can only be retrieved with a proprietory software, which is really the worst. Also, the data storage isn’t usually sufficient for a 3 week holiday, so that you always need to have a notebook with you. I would really like to have a gps logger which a rudimentary display (e-ink would be nice) and a mini sd slot, where all the tracks are just saved as a gpx file, so that I can copy them to my pc without having to rely on any software. Also, if I insert a 4 gb card, I can let the receiver run an entire year. Well, building your own gps receiver will most likely have problems with the not-crashing part, but it would be fun nonetheless. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
