Tag Archives: gps
Updating maps … to outdated data
I caved, and bought a Garmin nüvi 1490. Not that my GPSMap 60CSx wasn’t great at routing, but remembering to update maps before travel and its fiddly mounting requirements were a pain. So, two hours of downloading map updates, and … Continue reading
APRS is go!
Automatic Packet Reporting System — APRS — is rather clever. It’s a way of reporting position, status or messages via the amateur radio 2m band. Data is relayed via digipeaters, and routed to/from the internet APRS-IS system to any user … Continue reading
Garmin vs Arduino GPS dance-off
So I built a GPS logger. It’s an Arduino Uno with the SparkFun microSD and GPS shields. No display, massively unwieldy, but it does spit out a track point every second and logs it fairly reliably to microSD. It works … Continue reading
fixing garmin file dates
While the Garmin GPSMap 60csx is a lovely unit, it saves its tracks on the card with a date just slightly younger than I am. The following Unix one-liner will correct the file dates to the actual dates the data … Continue reading
Interfacing the Pharos GPS-500 to Mac OS X
I’m stopping short of calling this “Using the Pharos GPS-500 to Mac OS X” because all I’ve been able to do is read raw NMEA sentences from the device. But that might be of use to you. The Source is … Continue reading
Magellan Triton 400 micro-review
My office’s Garmin was stuck in a branch office last week, and we needed a GPS for the next morning, so we got a cheapo Magellan Triton 400 for $90 at Future Shop. I think that’s a clearance price, and … Continue reading
making of the Canada Day post
Making the My Neighbourhood, Canada Day 2010 post took a bit of planning. Hardware I attached an Ultrapod to the stem of my bike, and added another velcro wrap for security. The GPSMAP 60CSx fitted quite nicely under the bungees … Continue reading
Mac OS X killed my Garmin!
My GPSMAP 60CSx had started to become unreliable: crashing after startup, randomly locking up in mid route, and just generally being an aggravating piece of kit. I was really close to replacing it. The problem seemed to appear after I’d … Continue reading
probably wouldn’t recommend the Blackberry Tour as a GPS logger
I walked a local footpath carrying my (mostly) trusty Garmin GPSMap 60Csx, and a Blackberry Tour running bbTracker. Both had had a good satellite fix for about 10 minutes beforehand, and both were logging trackpoints every second. The smooth turquoise … Continue reading
More on iPhoto GPS weirdness
Applications using Apple Core Image will alter any geodata stored in images, and should not be relied upon for GIS applications. Continue reading