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

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 06:58:11PM +0200, Laurence Penney wrote:
> 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?

The device, when I was walking, wasn't hooked up to anything -- the
30000 track point memory means it remembered the entire 10 hour trip
(and then some) with 1 second intervals. I then used
http://www.harbaum.org/till/bluegps/ to download the data log (which
comes out as NMEA).

When flying, I use:
cat /dev/cu.BlueGPS27E8B5-SerialPort-1 >> flying/oak2bos.log

to track my path. Using OpenLayers, I'm then able to display live
tracking, as described in
http://mailman-viper.python-hosting.com/pipermail/users/2006-May/000004.html
, which you can see at 
http://crschmidt.net/personal/trip/oak2bos.png

As far as working with a cell phone, you can do that too:
http://gsmloc.org/ is powered by my Nokia 6600, some simple code:
http://gsmloc.org/code/stumblestore.py and the BlueGPS.

Of course, Nick Burch's code for the Series 60 platform is the best
around in Python: http://www.gagravarr.org/code/ , which can all use
this GPS.

> 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:

I fixed my /etc/mime.types, thanks.


-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer