[OSM-talk] Choice of GPS for bicycle use in London

[Nick Burch]

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Emil Vaughan wrote:
> Also, I'm due for a phone upgrade, so which one is best for gps logging 
> ? I'm favouring a sony ericsson for features and ease of use, but would 
> a nokia be best for software? I can't find much info on this on the net, 
> what should i look for?

I'd go with a Nokia Series 60 based phone. You can then load python on, 
and that gives you a choice of python or j2me applications to run on it.

I sometimes use GETrack (as previously mentioned). It exports straight to 
GPX, the author is really friendly and helpful, and it's cheap.

The rest of the time, I use my own nmea_info.py[1] (becoming increasingly 
badly named!). This shows you all sorts of info (satelites, OS 
co-ordinates etc), and logs the nmea data. You chuck that through 
gpsbabel, and out pops your gpx file.

(I'm half tempted to write something to offload the tracks over 
bluetooth in GPX format, if people think it'd be of use)

Nick

[1] - http://gagravarr.livejournal.com/104793.html