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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Hand held GPS |
| Date: |
05/20/2005 11:10:01 AM |
| From: |
David T. Hughes |
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There is an aftermarket powerpack for the iPAQ (and others) that solves the
short battery life. It runs on 3 "D" cell batteries that will keep the
system working (and charged) for about 48 hours continuos use with the
operation of a bluetooth card and continuous backlight (at least, on my Dell
Axim X5). For ArcPAD, the power really comes out if you get the developer
package and learn some basic programming to customize data entry menus to
fit your models.
Dave Hughes
Wichita State University
-----Original Message-----
From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
[mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of RICK GRAY
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 4:17 PM
To: vmichelin@hydroqual.com: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
Subject: Re: [gislist] Hand held GPS
Virginia,
We have used two different systems. Love the one, hate the other.
The Garmin GPSMap 60C is easy to use, easy to upload to the PC (as a text
file) and if you buy the additional map sets to go with it, has lots and
lots of detail. I use it with ArcView 3.x and highly recommend it.
Our other system is ArcPad on an iPAQ H2210 with a HAiCOM GPS flash antenna.
The antenna is fine, ArcPad is good if you are an ArcView user. But the iPAQ
is a pain - mainly because the battery lasts a max of 4 hours when it is
turned on, and a max of about 10 days when it is turned off. When the
battery goes dead, you lose all your data and any software (e.g. ArcPad)
that you have loaded on.
Believe me, this is TOTALLY frustrating.
Hope this helps.
Rick Gray
GIS Specialist, Ontario Weather Network
http://www.ownweb.ca
GIS Instructor
Ridgetown College, University of Guelph
http://www.ridgetowncollege.com/
Tel. 519-674-1554
E-mail: rgray@ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca
Ridgetown: -81.883 W, 42.450 N
>>> "Virginia Michelin" <vmichelin@hydroqual.com> 05/19/05 4:21 PM >>>
Hello All,
I was wondering if any of your could recommend or advise against any hand
held GPS units. The GPS points will probably be brought into GIS and
utilized to locate wetlands, potential development sites, etc. We are only
looking to spend a couple hundred bucks, so unfortunately nothing too fancy.
Also if the unit allows direct download to a PC would be great, our current
model doesn't and its a real pain to get that info off the GPS units. Any
advise or warnings would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot,
Virginia
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