[OSM-talk] GPSMAP 60Cx still the best OSM GPS?

[Florian Lohoff]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:06:38PM -0700, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> 
> I wish to buy the best (amateur) GPS for contributing to OSM. (I have
> no plan to use the device for anything else other than improving OSM,
> I plan to get something else for my other GPS needs.) I really care
> about accuracy, being able to get a lot of high-quality tracks, and
> being ultra quick with recording a waypoint.
> 

Trackpoints will be recorded continously to SD/MMC Card but setting
a waypoint is much more than one keypress as other GPS toys
allow.

> Reading the reviews on the wiki pages, it seems to me that Garmin
> GPSMAP 60Cx is still *the* GPS to get for OSM:

The GPSMap has a couple advantages over other devices:
- Waterproof - good for surviving a short shower
- Map Display - One can see the results of the mapping
  yesterday which is good once you are not mapping
  in white spaces but rather complete or verify areas.
- Long battery life.

A lot of mappers i know started with a Wintec WBT-201 which
is a matchbox size device - long battery life, 130k trackpoints,
usb, bluetooth and linux compatible (good linux ui to configure
logging settings). Those who went OSM fanatic switched to
the GPSMap 60.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                  flo at rfc822.org             +49-171-2280134
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