[OSM-talk] Introductions, and Icons?:

Apollinaris Schoell aschoell at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 04:04:44 BST 2009


>
>
> while the Garmin ones can use OSM maps, the chips they are still using is
> not
> the newest and best
> so it is harder to get a fix
> My newest logger can actually get a fix inside my house, which was
> constructed
> with a near complete Faraday cage design, although a fix takes much longer
> than the 30 secs it needs outside.
> Yesterday I stuck it to the top of my point-and-shoot camera
> as that is my favourite recording item.
>

Garmin has some big benefits. they have rugged outdoor devices and the
support for maps worldwide  is superior. now with osm and mkgmap even
better.
If you don't need these features they are pretty lame compared to many other
devices
depends on your priorities.



>
> the other benefit over the Garmin with too many buttons is that after it
> looses a fix no user input is required to restart logging
>
> using i-887 from Transcend i-blue series, sold as photoMate.
> it's not on the wiki yet, the wiki crashed the night I was going to add it
>
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