[Cialug] OT Variety of things

[Nathan Smith]

GPSd works with a lot of GPS units.  The output is very basic.  DPSDrive works with GPSd.

The biggest problem with open source GPS mapping software is that most maps are copyrighted.  Google Earth/Maps may help with that.  GPSDrive used to download maps from yahoo or mapquest or something like that.  Then there are the issues with old maps and new roads.

As far as the bizzare accuracy, is this an older GPS or a newer one?  Older ones were subject to imposed inaccuracies, newer ones have better satellite accuracy and are allowed to be more accurate.  I have an older handheld Garmin and I can leave it in once place and watch myself "move" on the screen, sometimes in fairly large jumps.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Weis
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 7:45 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] OT Variety of things
>
>
> Great wedding rings (is that an oxymoron?)
> http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/cat-5-wedding-rings-help-ne
rds-couple/
>
> Does anyone else use software, free or otherwise, with their GPS
> receiver? I was messing around and got the included software
> to spit out
> a file of a trip around WDM that I could import into Google Earth and
> have it show me approximately what path I took. It's
> selective precision
> was odd, I had almost exact turns in a parking lot but the last two
> blocks to my house cut through some yards and a crick. I've done that
> before but this was pretty early in the day for cross country.
>
> dave
>
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