Hi Curt, Herb bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Tablet and we are meeting today to see if I can get the OSM maps on it for APRSDroid. I also bought this Tablet but am returning it to Costco as they advertized it had HDMI capability which it does not; false ad
What I want to tell you about is this Tablet has the GPS + Glonass. I really like the battery life on the tablet; 10 hours. You might want to look it over as this would open a variety of maps that can be loaded. Herb as some special map program he specially bought this unit for so you might touch base with him as he is a mapping guy. Just thought I would throw out this bread crumb in case it might be of help. Good luck on getting what you want in the end. Jerry N7YGE -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Curt Mills Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 10:07 AM To: Xastir List Subject: [Xastir] Who's current on Garmin handheld GPS models? A bit off topic I guess, 'cuz this isn't for APRS use. I'm getting ready to buy a mapping GPS. I've dabbled in geo-caching, but hunting / hiking / SAR are the main uses. I prefer Garmin, and have (I think) narrowed it down to the GPSmap 64 and Oregon series. I want the best sensitivity under tree cover, and GPS + Glonass. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm leaning towards the Gpsmap 64st. The 1:100k built-in topo maps are not super-useful, but might be handy when I travel and don't have more detailed maps. I figure I'll buy the Garmin Topo West maps (1:24k) and use those for my main maps around here. Halfway-decent street maps would be a plus for traveling. Anything I need to know about using OpenStreetMaps with any of their newer models, should I later choose to load my own maps instead of paying Garmin for updates? I saw one comment on the 'net about the 64st not being able to load unlocked maps, but I'm not enough of a Garmin nerd to know what that means. Hopefully it doesn't prevent loading OSM maps or others. Any help appreciated! -- Curt, WE7U _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
