I think OSM should stay away from direct recommendations.<br><br>However, I could see OSM providing a forum for users to<br>give their own personal recommendations.<br><br>I think the problem with user reviews is that few users<br>
have access to many different products. If you are<br>writing for a car magazine then you get to drive lots<br>of different cars. The GPS I have now is pretty much<br>the only one I've every used. I have no idea how it<br>
compares to other GPS units.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Gervase Markham <<a href="mailto:gerv-gmane@gerv.net">gerv-gmane@gerv.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; 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>
<br>
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