Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] trouble loading route from Google Maps to eTrex
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From: Robert L. <rob...@us...> - 2006-12-27 23:19:25
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Christoph Eckert wrote: > > It doesn't transfer tracks/routes by default on the protocols becuase > > it can be time very consuming. > > I wondered why gpsbabel doesn't process all data (waypoints, routes, > tracks) per default if none of the three options -w -r -t was given. > IMHO this would be much more straightforward to the user (though I > respect that someone has made a decicion with reason). I made that decision because it can be very time consuming - if you want that data, flip that switch to get the data. Even a USB GPS can take a couple of minutes to send stored tracks - if you want to read tracks, that's just th eprice you have to pay, but if you want to read waypoints that's just wasted time. > compatibility, but in the long term: does CPU power really matter as > GPS devices provide USB interfaces nowadays? CPU power doesn't matter a lot in this regard, but passed time does. A serial GPS may take 5-8 minutes to transfer tracks and if we did that just to read a waypoint, we'd be lynched. This has lead to some inconsistency in our various options. Since our very first module was a (serial) GPS format, we had this whole modal tracks or routes or waypoints thing going on and that's leaked into a few of the formats. The various file-based ones try to read and write as much as they can of all three types without requiring -t/-r. RJL |