<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Karl Newman <<a href="mailto:siliconfiend@gmail.com">siliconfiend@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Gervase Markham <<a href="mailto:gerv-gmane@gerv.net" target="_blank">gerv-gmane@gerv.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/GPS" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/GPS</a><br>
says:<br>
"Thinking of getting a GPS Receiver to add data to OSM? These reviews<br>
are here to help."<br>
<br>
Well, if you have a particular model in mind, and want to know if it's<br>
any good, then they are some help. But if your mother has told you "I<br>
want a GPS with a screen for my motorbike, which I can also use for<br>
gathering OSM data", then trying to read through and compare 50<br>
different models is impossible.<br>
<br>
Would it be really too controversial for OSM to have a "we particularly<br>
recommend these N models" page, where N is small? Clearly, the NaviGPS<br>
(which I own) would be one, because it's good and OSM gets some money.<br>
But it would be great to have some sort of consensus on models in other<br>
price/capability brackets, perhaps a little more than a few mailing list<br>
messages saying "I have a Foo GPS, and it's fine".<br>
<br>
What do people think?<br>
<br>
Gerv<br></blockquote></div><br><div>I have a Garmin Vista HCx, and it's fine. :-p</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Karl</div>
</font></blockquote></div><br><div>Okay, sorry for my unhelpful joke. Anyway, I haven't used other brands, but Garmin might be a good choice in many cases. The models with memory cards can create GPX tracklogs, and even better, using mkgmap you can create Garmin maps from OSM data. I don't know if that's been done for other GPS receivers. (I'm not counting PDA-type devices.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Karl</div>