Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] GARDOWN

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> That doesn't look too painful to parse.  Are the coords "degrees
> minutes.decimal fractions of a minute"?
>
> Is this a one-time need or do other people actually care about this
> gardown thingy?  If the former, I'd probably just whip up some awk or
> perl to convert them to GPX.  (Gotta start a business for this kind of
> stuff...)
>
If that's what's up I'll do it in excell myself (my VBA > my pearl).  I
was mainly curious to see if I'd missed something in gpsbabel.  Why
reinvent the wheel.

> What are you hoping to convert them TO?  We don't support a wide variety
> of track formats:
> 	http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/capabilities.html
>
I was looking to convert to lots of things.  This is my first GPS and I'm
trying lots of software.  I did look over the doc's and most of what I
want is availible for export.


>> W  3WAY   N38 11.5629 W120 26.3703 Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 1989 27-JUL-03
>> 20:58
>
> And these don't look too bad at all.  I'll bet a CSV style sheet for
> this is trivial - esp. if we forgo the date and time.  See also: how
> good of a job do we really need to do with this?
>
> Actually, this is very close to the Garmin PCX format...
I expect it would be as gardown is sort for Garmin Downloader.  But not
close enough.

BTW are you repling to all or just list?  I keep getting two e-mails.