[Openstreetmap] Which GPS receiver to get?
Andrew Birkett
andy at nobugs.org
Sun Nov 7 16:11:55 GMT 2004
Hi,
I've been planning on making a Free street map of Edinburgh for a year
or so now, and Steve pointed me towards this list. I'm a developer, and
can help with the software side of things. I don't yet have a GPS
receiver, and so I'm hoping that I can draw on the experience of others
on this list.
I am not clear whether I can pick up any GPS handset and expect it to
work well in a city. For example, my dad has a Garmin eTrex that I can
probably borrow. Will that work tolerably in a city? Will it take
minutes to log each datapoint, or can I just cycle along a street and
expect it to get a reasonable number of datapoints? Would a handheld
set work any better than a CF card GPS receiver? Or should I be looking
at fancier sets to get decent reception?
Also, do these handheld receivers have some standard way of connecting
to a PC/handheld? Or do you need to build custom cables and reverse
engineer the protocol?
Any help would be welcome. I'm very keen to get mapping, because I have
a strong ideological view that there should be Free and accurate maps
available to people.
Andrew
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