On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:59:09AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:11:57PM +0000, Tony Kennick wrote:
Can anyone recommend a windows mobile GPS app with good "make a note of this position" functionality. Noting down lat and log on a bit of paper just seems wrong.
Notepad.exe? :-)
On a similar note, can anyone recommend a GPS which will talk to OSX over wifi, bluetooth or usb and give me access to the raw NMEA datastream through a standard character device as well as having nifty OS X apps bundled with it?
There are no Nifty OS X apps bundled, but the pretec BlueGPS/Royaltek RBT-3000 has treated me extremely well in this regard. If you don't want logging at all (can only get the logs in Windows or Linux) then you might look for one of their other (cheaper) non-logging products, like the mini Xtreme: http://www.royaltek.com/index.php/content/view/83/62/ which I found online for $100.
Basically, it lets you 'cat /dev/cu.BlueGPS' and get the raw nmea data. Anything that can talk to raw nmea over a serial device will work fine with it. However, GPS software for mac is extremely limited.
This is why I just write code on my phone that does it instead :)