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

[Valent Turkovic]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Yuri Magrisso <yumariso at gmail.com> wrote:
> TrekBuddy lists K750i as supported device -
> http://wiki.trekbuddy.net/index.php/Installation
>
> I haven't used my BT GPS device with Fedora yet, but my guess is that if you
> follow first any of the tutorials for connecting to Internet via Bluetooth
> phone and then a tutorial about GPSD you'll get it working.
> Basically, you need to make sure you have Bluez and tools installed, find
> out the BT address of your device, configure rfcomm.conf, connect to the
> device and then run GPSD on the com port you opened with rfcomm.
>
> Here's something I used for the Internet connection -
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=179710&highlight=nokia+bluetooth+internet
> http://ph.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=651852
>
> Yuri
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Yuri Magrisso <yumariso at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > If you have a Nokia S60 phone (N73, N82, 6120c, N95) you can install the
>> > Nokia Sports Tracker and record GPS tracks with the phone.
>> >
>> > This combo is somewhat easier to carry around :)
>> >
>> > You can get the Sports Tracker from here:
>> > http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/main/index.do
>> >
>> > Yuri
>>
>> I have Asus eee with fedora 9 installed (not too hard to carry around)
>>
>> I have two phones: SonyEricsson K750 and LG KU990 Viewty. And
>> suggestions for any of them?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Valent.
>>
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This worked flawlessly! I now have several tracks I have already made!

Thank you all!!

Valent.

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