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

[Douglas Furlong]

And that device would be?

On 8/1/08, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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