[OSM-talk] Re: OSM hardware?

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 03:02, AsmodeusB wrote:
> > * nslu2  €70
> > * usb flash memory €50
> > * power adaptor for a car €2.5-€25
> > * USB GPS receiver  €50
> >
> > That's at worst €200 to make a very high capacity (a year) GPS logger
> > for you car...
>
>  I use a slug, Globalsat BU-353 receiver and an external USB harddrive
> under Debian.
> On boot, gpsd and gpspipe start logging the tracks, and I modified a
> perl script I found in
> the wiki (can't find it now) to work with the latest gpsd-format
> output, and convert it to gpx.
>
>  Without any kind of buffering, I would think that a flash-based drive
> would hit its write
> lifetime fairly quickly.
>
> I've noticed lately that I'll have to throw on ntpd (synced to the
> shared-memory gpsd output)
> in order to keep the time on the slug somewhere near accurate.  I've
> had a couple days
> where it thought it was June already.

If you want to send me the perl script and the ntpd config I'll add it to the 
installation tar.

-
Joerg