[Geowanking] Cheap OSM GPS?

[Steve Lombardi]

You can get a qstarz travel logger for under a 100 bux (ebay 88 dollar 'buy now'). I pasted a friends review below - he used it for an extended trip last year and had it on continually. It's made for exactly what you are looking to do - Very small, Minimal controls on the device, set it and forget it.

http://www.qstarz.com/Products/GPS%20Products/BT-Q1000X-F.htm

http://cgi.ebay.com/Qstarz-BT-Q1000X-Bluetooth-GPS-Data-Logger-MTK2_W0QQitemZ230324749702QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGPS_Devices?hash=item230324749702&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A2%7C240%3A1318

I used Qstarz BT-Q1000 Platinum. I configured so it sampled only once per minute so that I didn't fill up the non-removable flash memory.  I didn't bring a laptop and thus had no way to do intermediate save.  Capacity is up to 200,000 waypoints depending on how much data per point (also somewhat configurable).  It got close to full on the flight back to SEA.  I had it on for most of the trip except when I was charging it in hotels for the night.  Only a few times was I unable to charge overnight.  I think it's good for about 30 hours if you don't have it Bluetoothed to another device.  I had extra battery with me.  Very small-size of a matchbox car.  Minimal interface-literally one 3-way switch (off/receive/log), and one multi-indication LED (tracking, Bluetooth, full, low batt). Standard mini-USB for tether and charging.  And you did see the results-great except for some noise that was rarely more than a few hundred feet off x/y though more for z.


From: geowanking-bounces at geowanking.org [mailto:geowanking-bounces at geowanking.org] On Behalf Of sophia parafina
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:21 AM
To: John Morris
Cc: geowanking at geowanking.org
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Cheap OSM GPS?

How about a Gamin Forerunner 101 (https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=142&pID=231)?  Let's you store tracks for 2 years, runs on AAA batteries.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, John Morris <john at coyotebush.net<mailto:john at coyotebush.net>> wrote:
Semsons has a variety of GPS loggers for under $100. Running for a week
without recharging might be a problem for most of them.

  www.semsons.com<http://www.semsons.com>



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Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Cheap OSM GPS?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Tom Longson (nym) <tomlong at gmail.com<mailto:tomlong at gmail.com>>
wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> My friend is going to Jacmel, Haiti next week, and I'd like to give
> her a GPS that she can leave in her backpack (out of sight) and record
> everywhere she goes, with the hope of geotagging her photos and
> improving the OSM map for the area. Can anyone give me an idea of what
> to get for her?
>
> Ideally it should
>
> * run without needing new batteries for a week.
> * cost less than $100
> * require no work on her part (she is geotarded)

A friend of mine has i-gotU (http://www.i-gotu.com/) which looks nice
and which is pretty small.

Markus

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