Nosegear
July 18th 03, 08:31 PM
Maybe PocketFMS will do the trick for you? It's an application that runs
on either a laptop with a GPS attached, or a PocketPC like the iPAQ. It
records 'breadcrumbs' which can be plotted onto a chart and it's
freeware! Of course you'd need to have some PocketPC and a compatible GPS
receiver, but this hardware is multifunctional (PDA, internet etc).
You can find it at www.pocketfms.com
Blue skies,
Nosegear
MikeM > wrote in
:
> Not very affordable, but my Garmin295 can record and download
> the track after fight. Memory is limited to about 4000 points.
>
> Almost any modern GPS (aviation or not) will transmit
> its present postion (in real time) as a NEMA sentence
> (ascii text) through a configurable RS232 port (nominally
> at 4800baud N 8 1).
>
> All you need to record your track is a serial cable, a laptop
> computer, and the dumbest "terminal" program (like
> HyperTerm) to record the text strings. After flight,
> parsing the lat/lons as a function of time is a
> simple programming exercise. I've done this using an
> old DOS only laptop which I bought at a garage sale for $10.
>
> MikeM
> Skylane '1mm
> Pacer '00z
>
>
> Eoin-MFD wrote:
>>
>> hello,
>>
>> I want to buy a GPS hand held that will log the route I walk very
>> accurately. I wish to then put this route into a CAD program.
>>
>> I am looking for something that will do this and also has an interface
>> to take the route off the handheld down to a PC.
>>
>> it's for plotting boundries in fields. which I wish to draw up in CAD
>> afterwards.
>>
>> what would be an affordable model that would serve this purpose?
>>
>> all help is greatly appreciated,
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eoin.
>
on either a laptop with a GPS attached, or a PocketPC like the iPAQ. It
records 'breadcrumbs' which can be plotted onto a chart and it's
freeware! Of course you'd need to have some PocketPC and a compatible GPS
receiver, but this hardware is multifunctional (PDA, internet etc).
You can find it at www.pocketfms.com
Blue skies,
Nosegear
MikeM > wrote in
:
> Not very affordable, but my Garmin295 can record and download
> the track after fight. Memory is limited to about 4000 points.
>
> Almost any modern GPS (aviation or not) will transmit
> its present postion (in real time) as a NEMA sentence
> (ascii text) through a configurable RS232 port (nominally
> at 4800baud N 8 1).
>
> All you need to record your track is a serial cable, a laptop
> computer, and the dumbest "terminal" program (like
> HyperTerm) to record the text strings. After flight,
> parsing the lat/lons as a function of time is a
> simple programming exercise. I've done this using an
> old DOS only laptop which I bought at a garage sale for $10.
>
> MikeM
> Skylane '1mm
> Pacer '00z
>
>
> Eoin-MFD wrote:
>>
>> hello,
>>
>> I want to buy a GPS hand held that will log the route I walk very
>> accurately. I wish to then put this route into a CAD program.
>>
>> I am looking for something that will do this and also has an interface
>> to take the route off the handheld down to a PC.
>>
>> it's for plotting boundries in fields. which I wish to draw up in CAD
>> afterwards.
>>
>> what would be an affordable model that would serve this purpose?
>>
>> all help is greatly appreciated,
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eoin.
>