[Openstreetmap] GPS hardware

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, john levin wrote:

> 1: I'm sure somewhere on the openstreetmap wiki there was a page on 
> hardware recommendations, but I can't find it. Am I imagining it, or 
> missing it?

I just bought a Bluetooth GPS.  So you need a laptop and/or handheld 
computer, but I already have both.  Currently playing with it using 
WinCE on the Ipaq, and it's pretty nice.

Will be working to get it working under Linux on both the laptop and the 
Ipaq this evening.  As often happens with Linux, it seems there have 
been a number of different, incompatible ways of doing Bluetooth.  The 
inevitable winnowing has occurred, but nobody has updated the docs to 
say "this is no longer the preferred way".  Fscking nightmare!

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