User:MichaelK/equipment

MichaelK: my equipment for OSM

Equipment overwiew

The following equipment is used for mapping:

• standard Laptop (Windows) for data processing (e.g. JOSM)
• GPS logger (see below)
• Pentax K3 for photos which succeedes the Pentax K100d Super and Pentax K7 I used before
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GPS devices used for OSM

• Haicom HI-203E
  • wired mouse with serial interface, Evermore chipset
  • my rating: old chipset, outdated for my current performance requirements. Although: device was OK the time it was purchased (long time before start of my contribution to OSM)
• Haicom HI-204III
  • SIRF III wired mouse with serial interface
  • my rating: well known good chipset, I am still content with the device
    • only used for some special purposes since I own my GPS logger
• since April 2007: Wintec WBT 201
  • Bluetooth GPS mouse with integrated logger
  • uses a rechargeable battery in the same size as the Nokia BL-4C
  • my rating:
    • very nice small device, I am very content with the device, my workhorse since I have the device
    • still my absolute main workhorse
• since October 2007: i-Blue 747
  • Bluetooth GPS mouse with integrated logger
  • my rating:
    • cheap device, likely to use a standard Nokia battery type
    • performance OK according to first evaluation (usually the WBT-201 is use)
• since June 2009: i-Blue 747A+
  • Bluetooth GPS mouse with integrated logger, successor of the i-Blue 747, supports A-GPS (Assisted GPS)
  • my rating:
    • will be evaluated (usually the WBT-201 is use)
• since July 2009: Garmin eTrex Vista HCx
  • Used for displaying OSM map data (see User:Computerteddy) while being on the way.
  • my rating:
    • very OK: very long operation time, very good sensitivity and short time to fix.
    • disadvantage: only one big GPX file on the storage card per day.
    • will be used as second device while making traces with the WBT-201.
    • I am more and more impressed about the performance of the device the more I use it.
    • a little bit annoying if used in airplanes because of the barometric sensor (altitude information is not valid and can't be turend off)
• since ???: Garmin eTrex 20
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Software used by myself for OSM

• JOSM, THE editor for OSM
• JOSM plugins currently used: AgPifoJ, Create_grid_of_ways, DirectUpload, PicLayer, buildings_tools, editgpx, multipoly, openstreetbugs, openvisible, osmarender, remotecontrol, tageditor, usertools, utilsplugin, walkingpapers, wmsplugin. HINT: quite some of them are not used any more or have been integrated into the core functions of JOSM.
• GPSBabel (see below).
• geosetter (see below).
• RouteConverter (see below).
• Prune (see below).

General Software related to GPS

The following list is collected from personal knowledge and experience plus a discussion in August 2012 on the OSM talk.de mailing list.

• GPSBabel including GUIs for conversion of GPS data (Open Source).
• geosetter to geolocate photographs using GPS tracks (Freeware, Windows).
• RouteConverter to display GPS tracks on top of OSM maps (Open Source).
• Viking (Open Source).
• JOSM plus the EditGpx Plugins
• Prune e.g to plot GPS-Tracks on OSM maps (Open Source).
• GPX-Manager
• QuoVadis big and well known tool (former name: TTQV, commercial SW for Windows)
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