<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">My GPS on the Freerunner is working very well and I have already tracked some streets for OSM with it. Additionally I have recorded a long ride with my motorcycle and compared it with OSM and googlemaps and was very surprised good the result was. (tangogps shows a GDOP between 1 and 2 and OSM recommends 4)<br>When I want to get a fix I have to go outside (balcony is enough) turn on GPS, hold the FR vertically and do not move much and at the latest 10 Minutes I get a Fix. <br>Did you check the connection of the GPS antenna which is mentioned in <br>http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FreeRunner_GPS_antenna_repair_SOP<br>(I would not solder as mentioned there but you can check visually and plug it off and in again)<br><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p>Good luck<br>Michael <br><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p>On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:40:36 Harald Koenig wrote:<br>> On May 11, Ron K. Jeffries wrote:<br>> > I for one am still hoping Freerunner at some point<br>> > can be used as a GPS tracker to gather data for<br>> > for Open Street Map. http://www.openstreetmap.org/<br>><br>> are you saying, that this is not possible right now?<br>><br>> I just bought a gta02 this week mainly for OSM and just _now_ because I'm<br>> heading to the OSM conference in Limerick/Ireland next week.<br>><br>> right now I get _no_ fixup at all, having tried for many hours and evenings<br>> ;-( looks like the "short antenna" detextion problem mentioned end of May.<br>><br>> my currect conclution of my GTA02:<br>><br>> - GPS antenna broken, gps unusable<br>> - no grapnics acceleration (no 3d, no video, almost no 2d) -- and no docs<br>> !!! that's not what got "advertised" in several conference talks :-(<br>><br>> > IIRC the OSM people reccommend capturing data<br>> > once per second.<br>><br>> correct.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Harald<br><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p></body></html>