[OSM-talk] Build your own GPS receiver

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 03:26:00PM +0000, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Going back a few years before GPS was widely available in pretty much
> everything bar the kitchen sink (please do post a link if you find a gps
> enabled sink :-) ) there was some discussion about making your own GPS
> receiver. If anyone is interested in taking this on as a nice weekend
> project, I have found that adafruit have a good guide for linking a GPS
> receiver to a Raspberry Pi. All components are reasonably priced and the
> guide covers everthing except running a RPi from a battery (google will
> help here).
> 
> http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-ultimate-gps-on-the-raspberry-pi/introduction
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
> p.s. A quick look at the numbers suggest that this is quite a good GPS
> chip, but thoughts welcome if anyone knows any better.

I'd rather go for getting your own OS running on a commercial GPS 
available e.g. the Garmins .... getting you DIY GPS receiver running
is probably not that hard - but for what purpose? It'll neither be better
on battery life, less waterproof, less ruggedized etc.

The only part about mit GPSMap 60CSx is routing capability with 
OSM Data and not beeing able to input stuff e.g. small mapping tasks.

So instead i'd have a look how to build your own OS with all the
functionality and bring it onto an available hardware. 

Garmins are good at hardware and suck at software. So use their
hardware and build a better OS - as it has been done for the Linksys
WRTGs and Rockbox for the iRiver mp3 players.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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