Jeff,<br><br>I don know if this helps you, but there is an existing GPS Activity named RoadMap. <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RoadMap">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/RoadMap</a><br><br><br clear="all">Diane Serley<br><a href="http://www.XOExplosion.com">www.XOExplosion.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Jeff Mascornick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjm4114@yahoo.com">jjm4114@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="4">Does anyone have experience with using GPS units/sofware with XOs?<br>I'm part of a team applying for a OLPC project to Tanzania and our team would like to use GPS hopefully for student in TZ and kids in a partner school in the US would work on collaborative projects --- hypothically, the children in Arica would send pictures of different parts of their community and the children in US would pick a place to hide a geocache (or facsimile thereof, or... anything) they would tell the teacher in TZ only and give them clues of where to find it, etc.--- this could be done vice versa of course<br>
<br>Does anyone know if this is possible? Feasible? -- Hopefully using Arcmap software, but I know that a several years ago IDRISI was more common (and open source if i recall correctly) in Africa esp.
in goverment in some areas<br><br>I realize the question may be a little vague - the idea is in a nebulous phase but I would be extremely grateful for any input .</font><br><br><div><span><span></span></span><font size="3"><span><span style="font-family: times new roman;"></span></span></font><span><span><font size="3"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"></span></font></span></span></div>
<font size="3"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Jeff Mascornick, MA<br>Research Assistant</span><br style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Center for Community Research & Service</span><br style="font-family: times new roman;">
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy University of Delaware<br><a href="mailto:jjm4114@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jjm4114@yahoo.com</a></span><br style="font-family: times new roman;">
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