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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Garmin GPS

Just got hold of a Garmin Nuvi GPS set. I downloaded the malsing files via usb to Kubuntu 8.10 laptop.

Some software being tested:
  1. gpsbabel - text based and its too difficult to use as there is not much documentation.
  2. josm - Java based and took so long to load. Uses the gpsbabel engine to generate maps.
  3. qlandkarte 0.7.3 (keeps crashing when I load a map and GPX) - Can view the maps on Linux

3 comments:

  1. Robert LipeNovember 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM

    There's about 150 pages of documentation on GPSBabel...

    http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.6/readme.html

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  2. AnonymousDecember 17, 2008 at 10:11 PM

    You might want to have a look att gpsdrive, http://gpsdrive.de/

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  3. TboxmyDecember 29, 2008 at 8:28 PM

    Robert,
    Thank you, the link is helpful.

    ajxn,
    gpsdrive looks like it is still work in progress. The next time I get another gps, I will definately give it a try.

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