[Digikam-users] GPS Logger

Alexander Wright digikam at wright-family.me.uk
Tue Oct 23 15:12:31 BST 2007


On Tuesday 23 October 2007 14:56:17 Gandalf Lechner wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 15:46:42 schrieb Markus Spring:
> > Googling for alternative GPS trackers, I came across the Royaltek devices
> > RTM-2300 and RTM-3800. For reasonable prices (60-100 EUR) they offer big
> > storage capacity and seemingly excellent accuracy (german test on
> > http://www.skybert.de/navigation/royaltek.htm) however they seem to
> > support no standard protocol for log downloading.
>
> these devices sound quite interesting to me, too - would also like to learn
> if you can used them with linux.

As an alternative, you can use your mobile phone, and a bluetooth GPS device. 
Software such as TrekBuddy www.trekbuddy.net can log the GPS position, 
recording in either GPX or raw NMEA for later processing. Use Bluetooth FTP 
to get the files from your phone.

Alexander.



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