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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:29:09 -0800 From: dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] GPS logging and linux. To: [email protected] Cc: Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sunday 02 December 2007 10:19:10 am Bill Broadley wrote: > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > On Saturday 01 December 2007 07:41:34 pm Bill Broadley wrote: > >> Just wanted to mention to anyone interested. The i-blue 747 works quite > >> well with linux. I avoided it in the past because the only driver I > >> could find was windows. > > > > Thanks for the post Bill. I have been thinking about getting something > > like this for path logging, but wanted to make sure that it would work > > well with linux. Currently I am using an old Garmin GPS 12, which can > > only record 1024 track points- usually enough for a single day's hike. > > The unit claims 16k points, not sure what it's recording though. There's > a dozen or so messages you can turn on and off. So is the thing configured through some sort of GUI ? Will that run on a linux system? Also -- can these settings be configured via USB (I do no have a blue tooth interface)? > > > Have you tried any of the other tools for working with GPS data out > > there: gpsd > > No, but I plan to tinker with it on the Nokia 800 I should get soon, I > believe it uses gpsd. > Ok -- it should, as gpsd uses a NMEA stream for all of its goodness. > > gpsbabel > > Yup tons. Maemo mapper -> gpx -> gpsbabel -> kml -> google earth. I've > also written a few things to pull out distance/speed over time from a > track: http://broadley.org/bill/Altitude-over-time.png ok-- if gpsbabel works then I am happy. Playing with GPS data is a lot of fun, here is an example from a sail boat, with some example code in R: http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/468 > > gpstrans > > Maybe. > > > Thanks for the review- I know what I am getting for Christmas this year! > > There's a similar unit with the same chipset, double the memory, but it was > a good bit more expensive ($90 vs $60). Ok -- I was looking at another one which has a solar panel for recharging the battery. That would be a nice feature for longer hikes. (http://www.semsons.com/i757prosobtd.html) .. i imagine that this would work with linux as well... but i will do some more detective work. > BTW, it charges via usb and comes with *gasp* 3 cables, car charger, wall > charger, and usb -> gps data cable and charger. I've not tested this one > but I've had excellent battery life with the 737. On the order of 30 hours > running, and 300 hours sleeping. It happily wakes up and gets a lock > within 40 seconds or so when I turn on my 770, goes to sleep when it loses > the BT connection. Great -- This looks like a fun toy indeed. Cheers, Dylan ----- End forwarded message ----- -- -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
