or...<br><br>or... you walk around for a couple of hours tracing new routes & get back to find your gps has logged just one point.<br>or... your gps batteries run out & you never noticed...<br>or... you're about to take a picture of a roadsign & find your kids have filled up the memory card on your camera...
<br>or... the satellites are in a bad mood & give you wierd traces (<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Grangefarm-wierd.jpg).">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:Grangefarm-wierd.jpg).</a>
..<br>or... you reformatted the memory card in your gps & forgot to switch logging back on...<br>or... you are all set to go out & your gps batteries are flat...<br><br>cathartic isn't it :-)<br><br>.Baz<br><br>
On 2/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christoph Eckert</b> <<a href="mailto:ce@christeck.de">ce@christeck.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Spent half an hour (fortunate it was such a short time) cycling <br>> around with my mobile phone running GPS software and recording my <br>> commentary. Not far from home I found out it hasn't been recording me
<br>> and it's saved a 1 point per minute trace :-( turned around and<br>> did most of it again though... worked that time<br><br>imagine you play around with your device connected to a Linux box. While<br>experimenting, the device crashes. No prob, boot it again.
<br>The next day you do a 4 hour mapping tour which causes the internal<br>track log to overwrite itself. No prob as I usually log the tracks to a<br>Micro-SD card.<br>Back home you notice that the crash has silently disabled the option to
<br>log the tracks to the SD card. Ouch!<br><br>ce<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk">
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