GPS-Logging with PalmOne’s GPS on Windows Mobile 5.0
Ingredients:
- GPS: a PalmOne bluetooth GPS receiver
- PDA: a Dell Axim x51v
- Software: VisualGPSce
- a PC with a SD-card reader
Result: One PDA ready to go to collect traces for
OpenStreetMap.
Recipe:
- Switch on the GPS and the PDA
- On the PDA: in the “Start” menu (top left corner) tap “Settings”
- go to the “Connections” tab
- tap the “Bluetooth” icon
- go to the “Mode” tab (should be active by default)
- activate “Turn on Bluetooth”
- go to the “Devices” tab
- tap “New Partnership…”
- after the scan, tap “palmOne GPS”
- tap “Next” at the bottom of the screen
- enter the passkey, it was “0000″ (zero, four times) for my device
- tap “Next” at the bottom of the screen
- activate the “Serial Port” to use from this device
- tap “Finish” at the bottom of the screen
- remove the keyboard by tapping on its symbol at the bottom of the screen
- go to the “COM Ports” tab
- tap on “New Outgoing Port”
- tap “palmOne GPS”
- tap “Next” at the bottom of the screen
- select a COM port (I used “COM7″, it said “Secured Connection” by default which I accepted); this is your “Hardware port”
- tap “Finish” at the bottom of the screen
- tap “ok” a the top right corner of the screen
- go to the “System” tab
- tap the “GPS” icon
- on the “Progams” tab select a different COM port than the one before (I used “COM9″); this is your “program port”
- go to the “Hardware” tab
- select the “hardware port” and set the “Baud rate” to 4800
- tap “ok” a the top right corner of the screen
- on the PC: download the VisualGPSce CAB to your SD card
- reenter the SD-card into the PDA
- On the PDA: in the “Start” menu (top left corner) tap “Programs”
- tap the “File Explorer” icon
- select “SD Card” in the combo box below the “Start” menu in the top left corner
- tap the VisualGPSceInstall.CAB
- acknowledge the missing signature
- install to the built in memory
- wait for the installation to finish
- tap “x” a the top right corner of the screen
- tap the “VisualGPSce” icon
- tap “Connect” at the bottom of the screen
- tap “Serial Port (Comm Port)”
- select the “program port” ( “COM9″ )
- enter the Baud rate (“4800″)
- tap “OK”
- tap “Log” at the bottom of the screen
- tap “Start”
- enter the file details, especially take care to save the log to the SD Card and not to “Main memory”
- tap “Save”
- Log!!!
Now, that was easy, wasn’t it?
Afterwards I used
GPSBabel 1.3.4 to convert the NMEA 0813 sentences into the GPX format and uploaded them into
JOSM. But that’s a story for another time.
