[OSM-talk] handheld gps unit

[Volker Schmidt]

For what's worth: I have been using for the last couple of months a
new-series etrex (etrex 30). This is the first Garmin handheld with a chip
also for GLONASS. I have done some precision checks with the device mounted
on the bicycle handlebar. Running with GLONASS and WAAS enabled I easily
achieved precision ranges of the order of one meter under open sky and with
good weather.
The checks consisted in cycling along narrow roads and comparing outbound
and return track whith high-resolution well-aligned satellite pictures.

The precision is good, but my overall judgement of the device is not so
clear. The user interface is not very intuitive, to say the least, the
manual (as usual with Garmin) is lousy. And the new etrex is completely
different from the classical etrex (in my case Legend HCx), in particular
they left out the beautiful, but little-known capability of the old etrex
to navigate downloaded tracks with the fantastic TrackBack feature, with
the big red arrow and the acoustic signals when approaching a turn in the
track. That's all gone.

I have written up quite a lot about using both devices, but it's all in
Italian, I'm afraid.

Volker
(Padova, Italy)

On 21 April 2012 13:00, <talk-request at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:51:01 +0200
> From: Claudius <claudius.h at gmx.de>
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> Am 16.04.2012 22:17, Milo? Komar?evi?:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Daniel Kastl<daniel at georepublic.de>
>  wrote:
> >> name:ja_rm is probably what will not be rendered usually, but this
> would be
> >> the name written for example on street signs as name in latin
> characters.
> >> name:ja_kana is what was mentioned in a previous email, because it helps
> >> Japanese people to know the reading of a name. It's also useful for
> >> geocoding.
> >>
> >
> > I would also like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to
> > the lack of unification on how 'romanized' language tags are used and
> > constructed for languages not usually written in Latin script.
> >
> > 'ja_rm' and 'zh_pinyin' are some examples
> >
> > We strongly believe OSM should get behind and use BCP 47 as
> > recommended by W3C, Unicode, ECMA, etc.:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag
> >
> > and are already committed to retagging all our data in Serbia to 'sr'
> > and 'sr-Latn'.
>
> +1
>
> Would be great to get the tagging guidelines accordingly.
>
> Claudius
>
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> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:19:49 +0200
> From: Claudius <claudius.h at gmx.de>
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] handheld gps unit
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> Do you know how this compares to the newer touch screen Garmin devices
> (Dakota, Oregan, Montana)? I know that upon release the GPS performance
> (read "Accuracy") of the touch devices was below the Vista HCx.
> Wondering if they could fix that via firmware upgrades or even
> improvements to the hardware.
>
> I really liked my Vista HCx, because of the very fast time to fix, the
> high accuracy and the fact that it actually had a scrollable map
> (something the Geko is lacking). But then the usability with that small
> joystick was just... bad when using the map.
>
> Claudius
>
> Am 19.04.2012 14:40, Thomas Davie:
> > I'm very pleased with my Garmin eTrex Vista HCx.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > if (*ra4 != 0xffc78948) { return false; }
> >
> >
> > On 19 Apr 2012, at 13:20, kenneth gonsalves wrote:
> >
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> what are recommendations for a handheld reasonably priced gps unit?
> >> --
> >> regards
> >> Kenneth Gonsalves
>
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