OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

[Peter Dobratz]

We were contemplating GPS units last year, but we never completed the
research and didn't make a purchase.  That being said, it looks like
the major players are Garmin and TomTom.

Some TomTom units run Linux, see: http://opentom.org/

However, Garmin may be more ubiquitous.  It looks like newer Garmins
support USB Mass Storage.  So putting OpenStreetMap data files on them
is simply a matter of copying the appropriate .img file.  See:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Mass_Storage_Mode
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download

--Peter

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:51 AM,  <bruce.labitt at autoliv.com> wrote:
> I've got an old un-upgradable GPS unit that I'd like to replace.  (At this
> point the maps are old enough that I've been directed out in the weeds
> quite a few times.  Umm, that is NOT the point of a GPS...)
>
> Towards that end, I'd like to get a new GPS that is OpenStreetMap
> compatible.  My google-fu is pretty lacking - as many list members may
> have noticed over the years.  The OpenStreetMap site(s) I've visited
> haven't been too illuminating.  Does anyone have direct experience with
> GPS units that work with OSM and are decent?  Oh, and the GPS unit is
> recent enough that I could buy it new?
>
> TIA
> Bruce
>
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