OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

[Bill McGonigle]

On 04/26/2010 09:51 AM, bruce.labitt at autoliv.com wrote:
> 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?

Depending on how much OSM you want to do, you might be better off buying 
the car GPS based on its features and get a GPS data logger:

http://www.buygpsnow.com/Columbus_V900_Bluetooth_GPS_Data_Logger.aspx

to do your OSM work.  Certainly spending more on an OSM-compatible unit 
wouldn't be of large benefit (and you always have to make sure it 
doesn't log the database-corrected coordinates but rather the sensed 
ones so you're not uploading the proprietary data).  Credit to Russ 
Nelson on both counts from his OSM presentation at DLSLUG.

-Bill

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