Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Can't download tracks?(newbie to GPS)

[Bill <ri...@me...>]

blah...Sorry for the frogged up reply, I subscribed in digest mode, not
sure how to preserve threading.

Anyway, thanks for the reply! I feel like I am in grade school and got
an A on a test :-D

Yeah, I forgot to mention I am using Gentoo Linux on a Dell Latitude CS.

I could not find any settings in the device that seemed relevant to
making things downloadable, but then again, I still don't know what I'm
doing yet ;-)

I started poking around wiht the -D9 and see that lots of data comes in
from the unit, and what I am guessing is track data is being discarded
as "(UNKNOWN )".

Should I continue poking around (I can modify code if needed) or is
someone already familiar with this software interested in looking into
this? Should I have just spammed my 58k debug output to the list?





>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:23:21 -0500
>From: Robert Lipe <rob...@us...>
>Subject: Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Can't download tracks?(newbie to GPS)
>To: Bill <ri...@me...>
>Cc: gps...@li...
>Message-ID: <20060621052321.GF4433@rjloud.localdomain>
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>>I am brand new to GPS devices, so I hope I don't confuse things too much
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>Your description is quite coherent.   I appreciate that.
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>>I want to download all the info I can from my shiney new Garmin Edge
>>205. In particular, I want to share my tracks(i.e. path I traveled, hope
>>these are tracks?) and of course I want to upload tracks from other
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>Correct. In GPS parlance, places you've been (or places you can
>convincingly fake) are "tracks".
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>>When I run:
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>>gpsbabel -t -r -w -i garmin -f usb:  -o gpx -F backup.gpx
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>Bonus points for getting that right.
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>>I get a backup.gpx that appears to contain the "marked locations" I
>>entered into the GPS and the routes I created. 
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>Those marked locations are waypoints.  That's good.   
>The routes you created are routes.   That's good.
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>>I also saw a "<trk>"
>>named "0" that I did not understand what that was..it had only  one
>>point in it. 
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>Selected Garmin devices name tracks.   Edge and Forerunner name tracks
>in fairly unimaginative ways with "0" being the first you'll encounter.
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>>I thought the <trk> items would be the tracks I wanted to share.
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>It probably is.
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>>Should I not be able to download the "course" or the move-by-move
>>points(tracks?) that trace the path I traveled? Shouldn't I be able to
>>upload a .gpx track with "gpsbabel -i gpx -f fred.mpx -o garmin -F usb:"?
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>Modulo parlance problems (directions are traditionally given relative
>to the computer you're sitting at) between those two senences, I'd
>think you're basically hip with that. I'm not certain that upload (i.e.
>sending TO the GPS from the computer) for x05 works right now, but I am
>pretty sure that download does.
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>>gpsbabel -V reports version 1.2.8-beta20060605.
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>I really should figure out how to smuggle an OS name in there....
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>><trk>
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>><trkseg>
>><trkpt lat="41.815337799" lon="-72.456643051">
>>  <ele>164.042114</ele>
>><time>2006-06-18T02:30:23Z</time>
>></trkpt>
>></trkseg>
>></trk>
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>I can't authoritatively explain why your unit is returning only one
>track with one trackpoint. I can't recall if it's collection has to be
>turned on in that family of units, but I have an Edge 305 in the lab
>and it works swimmingly well to collect trackpoints from the unit with
>GPSBabel and squish them into, say, KML.
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>RJL
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