Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Garmin II+ waypoints
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From: Clyde E. <cw...@ii...> - 2004-03-15 00:40:30
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> didn't make it to the unit. It appears that none of the records that only > had GCxxx as a Code made it to the GPSr. Everything that had GCxxxx DID > make it fine. I also noticed that the GPSr had a message about "Invalid > Waypoint" on the screen after the download." > > Perhaps the Garmin II+ considers waypoints with less that 6 characters > invalid? > >Just as public closure on this, I found and fixed this. Clyde verified >that the fix worked for the user that reported it. Hmmm. I think there might be some confusion on this. The issue I reported= as being fixed was to do with the Garmin III+ (only one character of the= comment being sent down to the GPS. My understanding is the Garmin II+= issue is still outstanding. Should I be getting the II+ user to try the= patch fix version of GBSBabel? (the one you sent me for the III+ issue) Thanks Clyde *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 14/03/2004 at 5:18 PM Robert Lipe wrote: >Clyde England wrote: > >> didn't make it to the unit. It appears that none of the records that= only >> had GCxxx as a Code made it to the GPSr. Everything that had GCxxxx DID >> make it fine. I also noticed that the GPSr had a message about "Invalid >> Waypoint" on the screen after the download." >> >> Perhaps the Garmin II+ considers waypoints with less that 6 characters >> invalid? > >Just as public closure on this, I found and fixed this. Clyde verified >that the fix worked for the user that reported it. > >Now, however, I'm looking at http://www.topografix.com/gps.xml and >wondering if I should beat the Garmin code with "cleaners" to restrict >the namespace of characters in all the waypoint and comments to more >closely comply with section 7.2 of the Garmin protocol spec. That means >"upper case letters, numbers" for waypoint names and "upper case letter, >numbers, space, hyphen" for comments > >RJL > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials >Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of >GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system >administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3D1470&alloc_id=3D3638&op=3Dclick= >_______________________________________________ >Gpsbabel-misc mailing list >Gps...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gpsbabel-misc |