GPS tracking

[simarillion]

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)
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.   
Did you check the connection of the GPS antenna which is mentioned in 
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FreeRunner_GPS_antenna_repair_SOP
(I would not solder as mentioned there but you can check visually and plug it 
off and in again)


Good luck
Michael 




On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:40:36 Harald Koenig wrote:
> On May 11, Ron K. Jeffries wrote:
> > I for one am still hoping Freerunner at some point
> > can be used as a GPS tracker to gather data for
> > for Open Street Map. http://www.openstreetmap.org/
>
> are you saying, that this is not possible right now?
>
> I just bought a gta02 this week mainly for OSM and just _now_ because I'm
> heading to the OSM conference in Limerick/Ireland next week.
>
> right now I get _no_ fixup at all, having tried for many hours and evenings
> ;-( looks like the "short antenna" detextion problem mentioned end of May.
>
> my currect conclution of my GTA02:
>
> - GPS antenna broken, gps unusable
> - no grapnics acceleration (no 3d, no video, almost no 2d) -- and no docs
> !!! that's not what got "advertised" in several conference talks :-(
>
> > IIRC the OSM people reccommend capturing data
> > once per second.
>
> correct.
>
>
>
> Harald


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