[OSM-talk] Might be a useful device...

[Laurence Penney]

Hi Christoph,

Thanks for the BlueGPS tip and the very accurate-looking KMZ. What unit 
to you connect the device to? Any idea if it would connect to one of 
those Python-enabled Bluetooth phones?

Here's a tip for helping visitors to your website download kmz files 
more easily (a click in Safari brings up junk). If you have access to 
your .htaccess file, that is. Just add this line somewhere:

AddType application/vnd.google-earth.kmz kmz kml

cheers,

-- Laurence


Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:39:00PM +0100, Oliver White wrote:
>> On Saturday 17 June 2006 01:56, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>>> I've just got one of these:
>>>
>>> http://www.semsons.com/wi3mugpsrebt.html
>> So is that a different name for this thing, or are they different devices?
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/GPS_Reviews#Royaltek
> 
> Different. The BlueGPS logs 30,000 points:
> 
>   http://www.semsons.com/roybluegmobd.html
> 
> And is awesome, for the record. I used it to record my recent 20 mile
> San Francisco hike:
> 
>   http://crschmidt.net/personal/trip/sf-20mi.png
>   http://crschmidt.net/personal/trip/sf-20mi.kmz (Google Earth)
> 
> And got signal in some places I wouldn't have believed... like 4M
> accuracy inside a building.
> 
> It also kept on ticking despite it getting dropped twice late in the
> day, when I was starting to get tired ;)