Open Street Map Party and other bits...

[Colin McGregor]

On 10/14/08, Matt Middleton <matt-oC+CK0giAiYdmIl+iVs3AywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> I won't be able to make it for the TLUG meeting tonight after all, but
> thanks very much for offering to let me test my laptop with your GPS
> unit.  I'm going to try and make it for the mapping party, so
> hopefully I'll get a chance to test my laptop with a similar unit there.

Well, I will bring my GPS with me to tonight's GTALug meeting should
anyone else want to test their laptop against the Microsoft GPS
receiver. Just bring along your laptop, plus make sure the following
programs are installed:

- gpsd - GPS receiver driver program.
- xgps - GPS display program that shows list of currently visible GPS satelites,
               current lat./lon., etc.. Good quick test to make sure
gpsd is working.

Colin McGregor

> Thanks again!
> Matt
>
> Quoting Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:
>
>> For those on this list who have not heard of Open Street Map, it is a
>> project to create a geographic database free of any government and/or
>> corporate entanglements. In other words a wiki style atlas where
>> any/everybody can go in to add / update geographic data. The project
>> main page can be seen here:
>>
>>   http://www.openstreetmap.org/
>>
>> There is an Open Street Map party being planned for Toronto on October
>> 26. Bring a laptop and/or a GPS receiver to the party. Details to be
>> seen here:
>>
>>    wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Canada:Ontario:Toronto
>>
>> On the above web page there is a note asking people to sign up via
>> www.meetup.com and/or upcoming.yahoo.com. I have not been able to
>> locate the sign-up page for meetup.com, and the upcoming site lists
>> the event as being in North York (my first searches were on Toronto,
>> which turned up nothing). For those wanting to sign-up in advance go
>> to the following page:
>>
>>   http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1190490/
>>
>> Recently I tossed a bunch of article ideas out to the editor of a
>> Linux oriented publication I have written for (and been published by)
>> in the past. Of the ideas I tossed out the only one the editor went
>> for was "An Introduction to Open Street Map". So, over the next 2
>> months I need to pull together 2,500 words of newbee material (not a
>> real issue :-) ). Now, I have been offered a short term loan of a
>> portable battery powered GPS. But I am still on the lookout for a
>> portable GPS that I can run independent of my laptop (currently the
>> only GPS I have is a unit that came with a copy of Microsoft's
>> "Streets and Trips 2006" (yes in the last two months I have bought a
>> Microsoft software package, only to toss the software, and keep the
>> electronics that came with the software :-) ) ).
>>
>> So, anyone have suggestions as to an Open Street Map usable battery
>> powered GPS that is as inexpensive as possible?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Colin McGregor
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