[Talk-in] Mapping without a smartphone : options + process?

[mayuresh@kathe.in]

Thanks for the tip regarding Garmin.
I particularly liked the Garmin eTrex 10, even the colour scheme is interesting (to me).
I also found GPSBabel (https://www.gpsbabel.org/) for preprocessing before moving data into JOSM/iD.

On Saturday, July 24, 2021 11:34 PM IST, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-in <talk-in at openstreetmap.org> wrote: 
 
> There are dedicated GPS devices, Garmin is one of well known producers 
> (though there may be some cheaper alternative), this devices have 
> still much better accuracy and vastly longer battery life.
> 
> You can map with JOSM/iD and just make a notes on paper while surveying.
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_techniques has some ideas
> 
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> Jul 24, 2021, 14:40 by mayuresh at kathe.in:
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> > I don't own a smartphone, and probably never will, I don't trust them.
> > I live in an area of Mumbai Suburbs which is now coming-up in a big way and hence there is lots of fresh information that could be fed into OSM.
> > My primary work environment is Ubuntu desktop and I solicit information about equipment (which works with such a configuration) I could purchase (other than any smartphone) to help me with the process of pinpointing locations and adding-in meta-data to OSM.
> > Thank you.
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