[OSM-talk] Build your own GPS receiver

[Florian Lohoff]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 03:10:20PM +0000, Kevin Peat wrote:
> Building your own Etrex is probably a waste of time from an OSM
> perspective but would still be fun for some of us especially if the
> accuracy was really good. This sort of module would also be great for
> someone to build a quadcopter to get aerial images where none exist or
> for other location based projects that big companies are not
> interested in.

Why would that be a waste of time? One could workaround e.g. replace
the Garmin stuff and let the multitude of OSM tags be displayed,
probably even with a user preference.

One could enable true foot/bicycle/car routing and not the restricted
garmin type of routing.

One could use the etrex for actually making something like the
keypadmapper3 but with a battery life of multiple days.

For building a quadcopter something GPS module just buy a UBox Lea 6
module or something and be done.

If its just a matter of getting a position there is a multitude of
solutions.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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