[OSM-newbies] GPS to display OSM maps

[John Wesley Simpson Hibbs]

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:01 +0000, Russ Phillips wrote:

> > I guess the Legend HCx (as suggested by Dermot) is a god option. But if
> > you could spend a little more maybe Garmin Oregon 200 is the thing for
> > you. Originally I planned buying the Legend, but after holdning the
> > Oregon I could no resist. :-)
> 
> Too rich for me, I'm afraid :-( Looks like I'll be getting a Legend HCx
> 
> > Weekly build of maps from all countries can be downloaded in native
> > Garmin (img) format from Cloudmade:
> > http://downloads.cloudmade.com/
> 
> That could be quite useful. I'd intended to make my own, but I might
> just be lazy and download them from there ;-)
> 
> >> - It would be nice to be able to store multiple track logs, giving
> >> each one a name (I don't know if *any* GPS can do this, but I figured
> >> it's worth an ask)
> >
> > Not sure chat you mean.
> 
> An example - if I walk down a footpath, it would be nice to save a
> track log of that walk and name it something like "Footpath", then
> walk along a canal, save that as a new track log named "Canal". The
> idea being that when I then loaded them into JOSM it would make it
> easier to mark up the new features. That doesn't appear to be
> possible, though.
> 
> > With my Vista CX, gpsbabel has no trouble creating gpx from whatever
> > it sees on the Vista. With the unit *not* in mass storage mode
> > (since I can't get waypoints if it's in that mode), I do:
> >  gpsbabel -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F waypoints.gpx
> >  gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F tracklog.gpx
> 
> With the Navit, I use the navilink.pl script to get waypoints, and
> simply copy tracklogs from the SD card. I imagine I'll do something
> similar with the Garmin.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for the advice and help.
> 
> Russ
> 
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Have you considered the Nokia n810?
I bought one for $320 from mobilecityonline.com, and I've been very
happy with it.

-- 
John Wesley Simpson Hibbs <john at swajime.com>
SwaJime's Cove
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