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Where am I?
Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Area of interest
I'll be working on the area east of Leuven primarily. There is Yahoo! imagery for Leuven, but not for the part east of it. Further I'll do where buses or the company car will take me for business (delivering gear and technical interventions) or pleasure (walks in nature, mostly :-) When the weather gets better again, I'll enjoy bicycle rides again.
Current gear
For transportation
A foldable bicycle (Popal 20" €220) and an 'abonnement' of De Lijn for the cold/rainy days. Now I can 'extend' the bus with a bicycle ride and take the bike along with me without having to pay the extra €5 per trip on the train!
GPS devices
An iPAQ 5940UK. Nice device. I installed NoniGPSplot on it. COM port to use is 7, 57600 baud. Yesterday I started retrieving the traces I made with it, the last few days and started uploading them with josm. All that works great! I'm also using Potlatch to trace imagery and for the final touch. I really like both tools equally well.
ADAPT-850 Datalogger with 44 channels that goes on logging for almost 20 hours. It can also serve as a GPS mouse. Bluetooth only, no USB. USB connector is only for charging.
Phone/camera
Sony Ericsson K750i GSM with built-in camera for taking pictures of road signs and road conditions.
'Emergeny' Backup battery
When I buy new gear, I make sure it can be charged via mini-USB.
ANSMANN solar charger with two AA-batteries in it and the possibility to charge USB devices and the Sony Ericsson phone in case their batteries are weak after many hours of mapping labour. When the AA batteries are empty I can easily replace them with some other spares I carry with me.
Experiments
I've been experimenting a bit with the Sony Ericsson K750i. I put vlkGPS on it and connected it to the AD-850 GPS mouse. This works pretty well. VlkGPS is able to export directly to GPX format and it can log points it receives from the GPS mouse. A pity the camera doesn't work anymore now, when I open its shutter/protector. No idea how I should get that to work. I'll have to go on its forum to ask about it. The cell phone is chiefly there to take pictures (and to make phone calls, of course), but if it could also log to GPX, it wouldn't be such a big deal if the IPAQ happens to malfunction or if its time is 'off' by a few months for synchronizing the pictures...
