[OSM-newbies] Cheap GPS device

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Sat Jul 31 02:39:58 BST 2010


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM, David Ellams
<osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I use the iBlue
> 747A+, which in the UK you can get on ebay for £25 - £30, but I have no
> idea of availability or price in Bangladesh!

Apprently Amazon carries it http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LK19G2

> I would personally
> recommend this device to anyone who wants a GPS logger of this sort. I
> find it reliable and easy to use*, it has a large memory and excellent
> battery life.

How easy to pull the data from? Is standard GPX  data available over
USB or BT as a thumb-drive filesystem, or are proprietary drivers that
require MS windows required? Linux & Mac users don't want to run
drivers in Virtual box if we can avoid it.

> *At least I did - I lost mine two weeks ago :(


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Bill
n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com



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