On 18/03/13 11:04, Hans Schmidt wrote: > 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. Maybe combine those two and have a dedicated GPS logger which you can connect to a smartphone to retrieve the data or get its current status.
- Svavar Kjarrval
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
