Thanks for your and Paolo's help.
GPSBabel+ works real fine on it's own. I am using the sourceforge 1.3.0 binaries for PPC on a G5 PPC machine. Grass is your 6.3CVS binaries. (Thanks)
I can use GPSBabel+ directly to download from the gps device and save in GPX format. I can then import the GPX format with v.in.gpsbabel. The data goes in as points in the Location's coordinate system. I had thought (and hoped) from the documentation that track data would import as an arc. I need to work on this.
The attribute columns are in the format (in grass) of easting, northing, elevation, day, time, and a blank column
Nonetheless, I can get the job done.
I stumbled across utility USB prober on the system. It sees the Garmin device with partial output as follows:
Full Speed device @ 5 (0x4B120000): ............................................. Vendor-specific device from Garmin International
Device Descriptor
Descriptor Version Number: 0x0110
Device Class: 255 (Vendor-specific)
Device Subclass: 255 (Vendor-specific)
Device Protocol: 255
Device MaxPacketSize: 64
Device VendorID/ProductID: 0x091E/0x0003 (Garmin International)
Device Version Number: 0x0001
Number of Configurations: 1
Manufacturer String: 0 (none)
Product String: 0 (none)
Serial Number String: 0 (none)
I could not get a response with ls -l cu.* I assumed this was from the console.
I listed /dev/ as per Paolo's note. There are many devices but none with "usb" in the names.
I am pretty much at a loss in discovering the device name, but it is not too much of an extra step to go through an intermediate file.
Thanks again.
Dave
On Sep 22, 2006, at 9:31 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
I've tried some gpsbabel stuff on Mac OS X. I have a Magellan MAP 330, it's serial, so I need to run in thru a USB-Serial converter. So far not much luck with gpsbabel, tho I can get it to work with other Mac GPS apps. I don't have a USB GPS device to test.
I don't see any *usb* devices, like Paolo mentioned, even cu.usb*. I guess usb keyboards and mice get their own special naming, and the usb-serial converter is cu.USA19QW3d1P1.1. You could try ls -l cu.* instead to see what's there, maybe the Garmin is named without 'usb'. Try it before and after the Garmin is plugged in.
What gpsbabel are you using? The GPSBabel+ you can find for Mac OS X, or your own build? Which version? PPC or Intel Mac? That GPSBabel+ is PPC-only, and may have problems running thru Rosetta on Intel Macs (it shouldn't).
On Sep 22, 2006, at 12:45 AM, Dave Kent wrote:
Hi all.
I am trying to download gps data using v.in.gpsbabel. I have a Garmin C60 gps and am using Grass 6.3CVS on mac os 10.4. I am using the USB connection.
The gpsbabel application on its own works.
When I try v.in.gpsbabel I get.
Downloading Tracks from GPS
[ERROR] XSERIAL: Cannot open serial port '/dev/cu.usbserial0': ?ÿç No such file or directory
[ERROR] Cannot open serial port '/dev/cu.usbserial0'
GARMIN:Can't init /dev/cu.usbserial0
v.in.gpsbabel: Error retrieving data
I have tried many device names including those in the help pages. /dev/cu.usbserial0 in the above example was from http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/MakingGpxTracks
Has anyone had success with this combination? What device name works?
Thanks for your help.
Dave
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