[OSM-newbies] Fedora and bluetooth gps (openstreetmap.org) howto ?

[Douglas Furlong]

2008/8/1 Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>

> Hi,
> I have Sirf III bluetooth GPS receiver and would like to contribute to
> www.openstreetmap.org project.
>
> Is there any good guide how to connect bluetooth gps receiver to a laptop
> running fedora 9 and wich applications to install and how to setup them.
>
> Any help is much appreciated!
>
> Can't wait to start contributing maps of areas I visit and travel to!
>


It depends what you are looking to do.

A) Use your GPS device with your Fedora machine to track what you are doing.
B) Use your GPS device independent of your laptop to collect the log data
(this will be easiest for the casual logger), and then retrieve that data
from the device, and work with the GPX files.

I would recommend option B.

What bluetooth device is it? As that will have a big impact on;
A) Can you do either of the above.
B) How :)

Doug
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