[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

[Evan Sebire]

Merkaartor does live GPS tracking, but I haven't been able to get it to work 
with my garmin xtrex legend.  There has been discussion about this on the 
mailing list but haven't followed it as I don't have appropriate hardware. 
I think the new nokia N900 (maemo.nokia.com) would be ideal for a cheap field-
book style device and merkaartor should run well on it.

I think for tagging things like roads, POI and house-numbers merkaator is 
perfect.  version 0.14 includes a auto house-number (Karlsruhe scheme) tool.

I develop a commercial surveying package for powerline design and of course 
use Qt, it is ideal for low power CPU's in the field with almost all of my 
customers using a panasonic toughbook which is quite slow but can last a whole 
day in the field, readable in direct sunlight and water/shock proof.  If you 
have a spare 5k I would recommend one :-)

Evan


On Friday 28 Aug 2009 09:26:32 John Smith wrote:
> 2009/8/28 Cosmic Charade <cosmicharade at gmail.com>:
> > could be the Java implementation on my installation.  I don't mind
> > terribly much - I can use my desktop PC if I need to - but I just like
> > the idea of live GPS trackign and POI tagging (if this is possible).  For
> > example - miss a traffic light and pop it on the map or whatever - or a
> > road change.
> 
> Java is a bit of a dog at the best of times, but JOSM is a nice app
> and I really love being able to do GPS tracking of current position
> when driving about so if a street isn't tagged I don't have to figure
> out where I've driven just to find out the street is already named :)
> This happened to me the other day, thought I had taken my GPS dongles
> and left them both at home. Not happy Jan!
> 
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