Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Magellan Explorist to Garmin Quest transfer

[Robert L. <rob...@us...>]

Jamie Zelazny wrote:

>    one GPS to the other. However, the waypoint names which show up on my Quest
>    are  in  all  uppercase, which isn't a big problem, but somewhat of an
>    annoyance.  The waypoint names in my Explorist are in upper/lower case

The official Garmin protocol spec says that thou shalt not send anything
other than uppercase (US) letters and digits 0-9 in a waypoint.
Since some Garmins crash when that clause is violated, we are very
conservative in doing so.

I don't have a Quest II in the lab (and I don't think any of our other
developers do, either) so it doesn't appear in the whitelist of units
where we selectively ignore that case since we don't know what other
problems will occur.

The original Quest, however, does appear in that whitelist and is owned
by one of our key developers. I can't imagine that Quest II works any
differently in this regard from Quest. So if you send me the unit ID for
Quest II, I'll add it in. That'll be in the first few lines of the level
one debug info. For example, the following tells us that Edge 305 has a
unit ID of '450':

$ gpsbabel -D1 -t -i garmin -f usb:
GPSBabel Version: 1.3.0
Unit:   EDGE305 Software Version 2.40
ID:     450
Version:        2.40
[ other stuff that's probably not very interesting ] 


I'm officially annoyed that Garmin's own Mapsource violates their own
spec in this regard, but my annoyance is of little consequence. :-)

RJL