[OSM-talk] GPS Units for the Foundation

[Andy Robinson]

Just as a follow up, Garmin website has the following firmware updates
listed for the Etrex:

#  eTrex Ver. 2.14 as of Jun 14, 2002
# eTrex/eTrex Camo/eTrex Summit Ver. 3.50 as of May 29, 2006 - Compatible
with versions: 3.00 or greater

So how do you tell if it’s a version 3 unit when buying an old unit on ebay?

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>Sent: 05 September 2006 3:52 PM
>To: 'SteveC'; 'Robert Scott'
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>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Units for the Foundation
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>SteveC wrote:
>>Sent: 05 September 2006 3:44 PM
>>To: Robert Scott
>>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] GPS Units for the Foundation
>>
>>* @ 05/09/06 03:28:00 PM lists at riscott.ukfsn.org wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:13, Mikel Maron wrote:
>>> > I ideally want to get to a dozen spare GPS units. Since there are no
>>more
>>> > NaviGPS units for sale in the UK, I'm thinking of ordering some Garmin
>>Geko
>>> > 201 units, which is at a similar price point. How do Geko's compare to
>>> > NaviGPS? Any pointers on a good place to order from?
>>>
>>> Is there a reason you're looking at gekos rather than eTrexes? The
>>classic
>>> yellow eTrex seems to be about £5 cheaper on amazon, and, though
>slightly
>>> bigger, has better battery life due to the use of AAs over AAAs, has a
>>> clearer screen and (I think) is slightly better built. Other than that,
>>the
>>> two are near identical, right down to the user interface.
>>
>>But there are two versions of the yellow etrex both with the same shell.
>>One of them goes up to 2.14 (IIRC) doesnt do EGNOS and wont record
>>per-second. The other (3.20 IIRC) does both.
>
>
>Yes, Steve and I investigated this during Bath where the batch on loan
>contained both types. Those able to run the later firmware have the full
>10,000 point at 1 sec capacity as far as I recall.
>
>>
>>You dont know which one you have till you try and update the firmware.
>>
>>> NaviGPSs will generally do better in these circumstances due to their
>>decent
>>> sirf II chips.
>>
>>If anything, I've found the geko better than the navi for reception so
>>far.
>>
>>have fun,
>>
>>SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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