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From: Michael Heiming on 25 Dec 2007 09:57
Hi!

I am looking into replacing my aged GPS V receiver with something
more capable. Detailed maps built-in or store able completely of
at least France, Germany, Swiss and possibly surrounding would be
required.

There are quite some devices offered, I had been using Garmin for
quite some time, starting with GPS II+, with good success.

However, I need an unit that will work completely with Linux,
there's certain software allowing to download, tracks, waypoints
and so on with my GPS V. But I mean the whole functionality of
the delivered software, isn't available on Linux.

I saw TomTom GPS devices run on Linux, but haven't seen if it has
also connectivity software running on Linux?

Anyone knows about some device?

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From: General Schvantzkopf on 25 Dec 2007 11:38
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:57:48 +0100, Michael Heiming wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am looking into replacing my aged GPS V receiver with something more
> capable. Detailed maps built-in or store able completely of at least
> France, Germany, Swiss and possibly surrounding would be required.
>
> There are quite some devices offered, I had been using Garmin for quite
> some time, starting with GPS II+, with good success.
>
> However, I need an unit that will work completely with Linux, there's
> certain software allowing to download, tracks, waypoints and so on with
> my GPS V. But I mean the whole functionality of the delivered software,
> isn't available on Linux.
>
> I saw TomTom GPS devices run on Linux, but haven't seen if it has also
> connectivity software running on Linux?
>
> Anyone knows about some device?

Are you looking for a hand held or an auto GPS? The GPS V did both pretty
well for it's day. I still carry my GPS V when I go hiking, I have a
built in GPS in my car now so I don't use it there anymore.

I'm waiting for a good Linux phone to come on the market, maybe a gPhone,
to replace my Treo and my GPS V. New cell phones have GPS built in which
is a better solution than carrying a separate device. Another advantage
is that phone based GPS can get it's maps from the web instead of from an
obsolete DVD. If the device can talk to the Internet directly it doesn't
matter if it's Linux compatible except maybe for saving waypoints,
however I would hope that a smartphone GPS application would be able to
save the waypoints to a FLASH card, that's a feature I would be looking
for.

I don't know if any auto GPS's that use web based maps, the Tom Toms get
traffic updates but I don't know if their maps can be updated directly.

From: Michael Heiming on 3 Jan 2008 11:27
In comp.os.linux.hardware Michael Heiming <michael+USENET(a)www.heiming.de> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:57:48 +0100, Michael Heiming wrote:
> [Looking for Linux supported GPS device?]

>> I'm waiting for a good Linux phone to come on the market, maybe a gPhone,
> [..]

> I get sick of cell phone and alike devices, so I try to avoid
> them like a plague. (http://www.bioinitiative.org/ for more
> information)

Finally decided for the Garmin nuvi 350T, which seems to be the
device with the most features but missing bluetooth and FM
sender, which I refuse to buy.

You can mount it from Linux as USB mass storage device and
install updates as well as update the waypoints (.gpx files). It
doesn't come with mapsource and doesn't have that much routing
capabilities. This is a drawback, but I don't need those that
much, though trackback would be nice.

If you exclude highways from routing it is told it would, at
least in Germany also not use "Bundesstrassen" (countryside
highways), perhaps this can be fixed easily by Garmin through an
update?

Europe maps are built in so you don't need to download maps
anyway. Unsure if it will work behind the heated and metallic
damped windscreen of my car, though I just need an adapter
BNC/MCX and can reuse the antenna of my GPS V.

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