[OSM-newbies] small-sized, track-recording, OSM-compatible GPS?

Hervé S. herve.openstreetmap at ouvaton.org
Wed Oct 29 19:36:27 GMT 2008


Excellent!
Thank you very much for this detailed advice!
H.

Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I just went to have a look but I'm a bit lost in the huge number of
> > models -are you sure they can use openstreetmap cartography?
> 
> Yes. See the "featured images" of mine on my userpage:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Gravitystorm
> 
> If you were to ask for a specific model, I (and quite a few other
> OSMers) would recommend the eTrex Legend HCx
> 
> > Also, it's unclear for me what is the max size of their SD cards (some
> > models say "128Mb" which is extremely low compared to the Freerunner
> > -indeed I've currently more than 256Mb of OSM cards preloaded here...
> 
> They come with a built-in chunk of memory - used to be around 8-16Mb
> (like on my Venture Cx) but I would imagine the newer ones are bigger.
> But so long as it has an 'x' suffix to the model number, it'll also
> take larger (e.g. 2Gb) microSD cards without problem.


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