Dear users,
does anyone has been able to download and uplod data from a garmin etrex
connected to the laptop by a usb serial port adapter???
I have tried with gpsbabel, but without success
thank you very much
ivan
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:00:40PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <marchesini@unipg.it> flavor, containing:
Dear users,
does anyone has been able to download and uplod data from a garmin etrex
connected to the laptop by a usb serial port adapter???
I have tried with gpsbabel, but without success
I have done this with "GPSman" on my laptop. THe nice thing about GPSman is
that with the "gpsmanshp" plugin you can get it to export the tracks, routes,
and waypoints directly to shapefile for input into a GIS.
GPSman can be had at http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/
and gpsmanshp is at http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsmanshp/
Hope that helps.
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Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1
"The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly
worth the effort." -- Norton Juster
> does anyone has been able to download and uplod data from a garmin
> etrex connected to the laptop by a usb serial port adapter???
> I have tried with gpsbabel, but without successI have done this with "GPSman" on my laptop. THe nice thing about
GPSman is that with the "gpsmanshp" plugin you can get it to export
the tracks, routes, and waypoints directly to shapefile for input into
a GIS.GPSman can be had at http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/
and gpsmanshp is at http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsmanshp/Hope that helps.
you could also try gpstrans. http://gpstrans.sourceforge.net/
simple, but it works.
Hamish
ps - check your device names. Can you connect with gpsd?
I have done this with "GPSman" on my laptop. THe nice thing about
GPSman is that with the "gpsmanshp" plugin you can get it to export
the tracks, routes, and waypoints directly to shapefile for input into
a GIS.
fyi, v.in.garmin does this directly into GRASS.
Hamish
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:02:38PM +1300, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
> I have done this with "GPSman" on my laptop. THe nice thing about
> GPSman is that with the "gpsmanshp" plugin you can get it to export
> the tracks, routes, and waypoints directly to shapefile for input into
> a GIS.fyi, v.in.garmin does this directly into GRASS.
Unfortunately I have had trouble getting gpstrans to work under FreeBSD in the
past. Since v.in.garmin uses gpstrans and also uses "tac" (another utility
that does not exist on BSD), gpsman/gpsmanshp is my best option -- that it
also works with my favorite APRS application, xastir, (an amateur radio system
for real-time postion reporting and tracking) is another reason I stick with it.
I haven't looked into gpstrans in a year or more, though --- perhaps it is
more portable to non-linux systems now than it was when I first tried it.
But I have indeed used a USB serial port adapter (mine is a Belkin F5U103)
on my laptop with this software to get data from a Garmin eTrex, which was
really what the original poster asked about.
--
Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1
"The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly
worth the effort." -- Norton Juster
ivan marchesini wrote:
Dear users,
does anyone has been able to download and uplod data from a garmin etrex
connected to the laptop by a usb serial port adapter???
I have tried with gpsbabel, but without success
Ivan,
I had no problems to do exactly this. Did you select the right ttyUSB0?
gpsbabel -i garmin -f /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F /tmp/garmin.gpx
#both W and T
gpsbabel -w -t -i garmin -f /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F
garmin_france_2005_traces_way.gpx
Works,
markus