[ gpsdrive ] gpsdrive vocal input plugin

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Sonntag 10 Februar 2008, carlo mecozzi wrote:
> maybe is a foolish idea, but driving alone for 600 kms. down from Milano
> to Roma, Italy, I saved  tracks, not yet  on openstreetmap, although
> very important routes. for me was impossible to mark a single waypoint,
> since I was driving : would it be possiple to study a vocal input plugin
> for gpsdrive so to speak to the notebook and register information about
> tracks synchronized with the track? uhm....
> I hope I will not be banned for such a question!

I'd suggest two possibilities:

Digital Recorder:
Get a digital recorder with timestamp function. And then use these recordings 
by adding a special tag in the gpx file. (Description should be somewhere in 
the OSM-Wiki) to display little icons in josm where the recording was done.

Digital Camera:
This is the way I normally do it. I take my digital camera and take snapshots 
of the things I want to remember. (Church, Bus Stop, Streetname(sign), 
City-name, ...) When I'm home I have my gps track which has timestamps and I 
have the digital images, which have timestamps too. josm has the track 
function (right click on a loaded track) import-images. If you do this you 
see each picture at the exact location you took it. You even can sync the 2 
clocks if they where out of sync while recording.

Minor:
Gpsdrive has the funktion set-waypoint-with-timestamp-without asking. Maybe 
you can use this for something too.

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Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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