[OSGeo-Discuss] Mobile GPS - really low cost hardware platforms for this?

Bob Basques bob.b at gritechnologies.com
Wed Aug 2 17:04:45 PDT 2006



Sasa Ivetic wrote:
> I might have missed it, but is it touch-screen (for use w/ a stylus)?  If its not, then how do they handle keyboard input?
> If they require an outside keyboard, or if they require you to navigate a virtual keyboard using the joystick, then there might be some (lots?) of resistance by anyone who might use this device for anything that requires even a small amount of keyboard input, or clicking, etc.
>
>   
I found a couple of references to KeyBorad hacks using a PALM Keyboard.  
There were also some folks who have already gotten Bluetooth to work.  
Don't know how stable though, but it would allow for Keyboards.

bobb





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