All things going well, the "first light" GPS trace from my new i-gotU GT-100 GPS logger will be online shortly @ osm.org/user/morb_au/traces/123411. Here's the info page: http://www.ja-gps.com.au/i-gotu-live-travel-blog-master.html

The gizmo is a "matchbox" GPS puck which can run as either a connected USB NMEA terminal or a disconnected GPS logger (can store just over 16,000 trackpoints, i.e. 4.5 hours at 1 second intervals - and yes, the memory fills up before the charge runs out).

I haven't really seen GPS loggers at anywhere near AU$79 before, so it was a fairly compelling purchase for me. If it all pans out as promised, it also means I don't have to drag around a bulky GPS terminal "on the road" any more. Just this thing and a digital camera.

I took it for a test drive in Brisbane around three newly developed areas that you won't find on the Yahoo imagery: Waterline in Bulimba; the Morrisey St overpass (North-South Bypass / Clem Jones Tunnel Ipswich Road portal construction precinct); and the Horace St exit overpass (NSBT again, this time the Lutwyche Rd portal construction).

Lat/Lon is for Waterline.

Around Brisbane the Yahoo imagery cuts out around 152.90 E. Today I actually did some "old school" OSMming using the GPS directly - yep, getting out in the field.

Travels covered Samford Road / Mount Glorious Road (up to the range at Mount Nebo Road), which now has fairly high quality cartography (in particular the range climb west of the Goat Track).

Elsewhere I "fell off" the Brisway map west of Mount Samson village, so you'll *know* that I don't cheat (I haven't entered that in yet though, wait a few days...)!

Also up to Winn Road (which skirts the southern edge of the North Pine Dam reservoir). I met up with some of NealSchulz' work.