[Viking-devel] Re: Viking-devel digest, Vol 1 #10 - 1 msg

[Christopher H. <cg...@ro...>]

Try searching on freshmeat or sourceforge for gpsbabel.  There is also 
one called gpsutil.  I like gpsbabel since it is a one-size-fits-all 
approach.  It converts and catenates multiple input formats/files into 
one stream.  Syntaxt is pretty simple, but not obvious at first glance:

# Download waypoints
gpsbabel -i magellan -f /dev/gps -o magellan -F /tmp/downloads.wpt

# Upload waypoints
gpsbabel -i magellan -f /tmp/uploads.wpt -o magellan -F /dev/gps

(/dev/gps is a sym-link to /dev/ttsS[0|1] dpeneding on your configuration).

Now, to bring this onto a Viking topic, it would be really great if 
Viking spoke native loc or gpx formats...  GPSpoint seems to be a custom 
format (or not as widely used) based on what I've seen.  Might just be 
that I'm not well travelled yet to recognize it ;).  Either way, seems 
like gpsbabel speaks everything else natively, so it would be nice to 
leverage one of those existing formats.

HTH,
Chris


vik...@li... wrote:

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>Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 01:32:33 -0700
>From: jr...@da...
>To: Vik...@li...
>Subject: [Viking-devel] Magellan GPS unit.
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>I know this is not directly related to the viking program, but is anyone aware of a linux utility able to interface with the Magellan SporTrak Map? I have tried gpspoint2 and the gettracks.awt script from http://staff.washington.edu/dushaw/GPS/
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>But had no luck...
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>Thanks.
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