[OSM-talk] South Downs Way

[Robert Scott]

On Sunday 09 July 2006 21:32, Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> You'll have to write to the SD-Card in 512Bytes blocks anyhow.

Yes, but I was really just suggesting dispensing with a filesystem and writing 
to it in a long stream.

> I think for the first run gzip won't be necessary. Just look at the SD-Card
> prices and you'll find that for the first run it's not really necessary.

Bah. You have no sense of adventure.

> As what I know the cheapest GPS units a end-user can buy a a little bit
> more.

http://www.globalsat.co.uk/product_em406.htm is the sort of thing I was 
considering. They sell USB dongles with them & a USB-serial converter in them 
for £50, so the OEM module can't be too much - If the worst comes to the 
worst, buy a USB dongle and crack it open.

> That was the reason I was this amazed about the £65.- for the NaviGPS,
> which probably is exatly something like you described.

I concur that in reality you'd only get very minor advantages over the 
navigps, those being very slightly lower cost, and a sirf III rather than a 
sirf II/unknown. And you'd get a lot of disadvantages over a navigps.


robert.