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

[Valent Turkovic]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Douglas Furlong
<douglas.furlong at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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A)

because I only have bluetooth gps reciver which is not stand-alone device.

Any tips for gps+bluetooth+fedora are welcome. After I get this working I'll
setup a fedora wiki page explaining how to do it...

Cheers,
Valent.


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