Ingredients:

1. GPS: a PalmOne bluetooth GPS receiver
2. PDA: a Dell Axim x51v
3. Software: VisualGPSce
4. a PC with a SD-card reader

Result: One PDA ready to go to collect traces for OpenStreetMap.

Recipe:

1. Switch on the GPS and the PDA
2. On the PDA: in the “Start” menu (top left corner) tap “Settings”
3. go to the “Connections” tab
4. tap the “Bluetooth” icon
5. go to the “Mode” tab (should be active by default)
6. activate “Turn on Bluetooth”
7. go to the “Devices” tab
8. tap “New Partnership…”
9. after the scan, tap “palmOne GPS”
10. tap “Next” at the bottom of the screen
11. enter the passkey, it was “0000″ (zero, four times) for my device
12. tap “Next” at the bottom of the screen
13. activate the “Serial Port” to use from this device
14. tap “Finish” at the bottom of the screen
15. remove the keyboard by tapping on its symbol at the bottom of the screen
16. go to the “COM Ports” tab
17. tap on “New Outgoing Port”
18. tap “palmOne GPS”
19. tap “Next” at the bottom of the screen
20. select a COM port (I used “COM7″, it said “Secured Connection” by default which I accepted); this is your “Hardware port”
21. tap “Finish” at the bottom of the screen
22. tap “ok” a the top right corner of the screen
23. go to the “System” tab
24. tap the “GPS” icon
25. on the “Progams” tab select a different COM port than the one before (I used “COM9″); this is your “program port”
26. go to the “Hardware” tab
27. select the “hardware port” and set the “Baud rate” to 4800
28. tap “ok” a the top right corner of the screen
29. on the PC: download the VisualGPSce CAB to your SD card
30. reenter the SD-card into the PDA
31. On the PDA: in the “Start” menu (top left corner) tap “Programs”
32. tap the “File Explorer” icon
33. select “SD Card” in the combo box below the “Start” menu in the top left corner
34. tap the VisualGPSceInstall.CAB
35. acknowledge the missing signature
36. install to the built in memory
37. wait for the installation to finish
38. tap “x” a the top right corner of the screen
39. tap the “VisualGPSce” icon
40. tap “Connect” at the bottom of the screen
41. tap “Serial Port (Comm Port)”
42. select the “program port” ( “COM9″ )
43. enter the Baud rate (“4800″)
44. tap “OK”
45. tap “Log” at the bottom of the screen
46. tap “Start”
47. enter the file details, especially take care to save the log to the SD Card and not to “Main memory”
48. tap “Save”
49. 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.

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