<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Arun Ganesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arun.planemad@gmail.com">arun.planemad@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">What i do is toss it in my backpack and connect to via blue tooth using gpsmid on my phone. I have almost always got a fix with it sitting in my backpack and had no reason to take it out, except for switching it off while going indoors to save battery. So it is pretty much fire and forget.</div>
</blockquote></div><br>I took a train from Hyderabad to Bangalore last evening. My Garmin Forerunner (a wrist-mounted GPS) had accidentally switched on just before I got onto the train and recorded the entire route until Bangalore -- packed up in my bag, under the seat, within the metal shell of the train. The battery's rated for 10 hours. It lasted 13, despite the obviously very poor signal, and the trace it made aligns perfectly with your OSM Landsat trace and with Google Maps.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/40589680">http://connect.garmin.com/activity/40589680</a></div><div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jace/traces/763994">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jace/traces/763994</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm impressed.</div><div><br></div>