[OSM-talk] GPS recommendations

[David Earl]

On 24/04/2008 19:57, Laurence Penney wrote:
> I quite liked my Nokia N70 + BlueGPS (Sirf3, non-logging) +  
> nmea_info.py combo. So much so that I bought another BlueGPS when I  
> left my first one on a train in a good position near the window. I  
> can't find its replacement now, so wonder if I left that in a taxi,  
> bleary-eyed after some flight. Having an all-in-one is quite a bit  
> less hassle so I'm sticking with my N95 + SportsTracker for now - will  
> be good for a day out when I buy a spare battery.

I've been very happy with my Nokia N810 internet tablet. The built-in 
GPS seems pretty good - I thought it had lost it going through some 
light woodland the other day, as I was on a bit of already mapped road, 
but in fact mine was right and the existing was wrong. Of course it does 
lose signal sometimes. When I bought it I did some side-by-side session 
with my Garmin Geko 301 and I think the Nokia was more accurate and lost 
the signal less often.

I've adapted the in-car holder to be a handlebar mount on my bike, and 
made some minimal changes to its Maemo Mapper application so that I get 
one-touch-anywhere-on-the-screen auto-numbered waypoints (which means I 
can wear gloves in winter and still get waypoints). I can use a 
bluetooth earphone/mic to take an audio commentary on the device, and 
when I get home the WAV files and GPX files can just be copied over the 
network on WiFi and synced in JOSM using the continuous audio features I 
added.

David