[OSM-talk] Build your own GPS receiver

Florian Lohoff f at zz.de
Mon Mar 18 16:18:43 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 03:50:53PM +0000, Kevin Peat wrote:
> On 18 March 2013 15:20, Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:
> >
> > 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...
> >
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to just start with an Android device and write a
> decent app to do this stuff, the affordable Garmin hardware seems
> pretty low powered with mostly small screens.

Show me a smartphone with the screen turned on, gps running which lasts
more than 3 hours.

You cant should amps into the phone as fast as the battery drains
whereas my GPSMap 60Csx runs for multiple days on the same set
of AA batteries.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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