OpenStreetMap

Just Getting Started

Posted by devonshire on 18 February 2008 in English.

I've just started mapping the Torbay area in South Devon which previously was extremely sparse lacking even the main A roads.

I have an old Etrex Legend and have been using that on a bike mount to combine some exercise with collecting map data. I'm a Linux user and have been using gpsbabel together with a shell script from this site to pull the data from the Etrex which seems to be working great. So far I've mapped in most of the main roads and am then going to work out from where I live in Paignton.

Last week I bought a Holux M-1200 bluetooth GPS receiver which I hope to use with my Windows Mobile PDA (Acer N300). I've spent the last week loading various bits of PDA software trying to find the right one for me. The N300 has a VGA resolution screen which looks great but a lot of the software doesn't work properly with it.

Currently TrekBuddy looks good so I'll be trying that out over the next few weeks.

Any mapping help much appreciated.

Discussion

Comment from daveemtb on 18 February 2008 at 20:43

Hi,

Just wondering if you've tried NoniGPSplot? I don't know if it works in VGA I'm afraid, but I find it a good program for recording logs with labelled points.

Regards,

Dave

Comment from devonshire on 19 February 2008 at 09:48

Thanks Dave, I'll give that a try as well.

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