[OSM-newbies] GPS question..

[Bob Cox]

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:25 -0500, Eric Ladner wrote:
> (first time poster..)

> One is the Garmin Geko 210, the other is the Garmin GPS 60.  Both seem
> appropriate for casual use, but the GPS 60 appears a little better
> built than the other one (plus it supports USB instead of serial, but
> that's not much of an issue).  I'm using a Linux box at the house
> primarialy.  Anybody have any experience with those two that can give
> a thumbs up or down?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric Ladner,
> Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA
> 
I have a GPS 60CSx which works excellently. Starts tracking sooner and
works under trees far better than the Magellan it replaced. I bought it
after looking at a number of reviews which rated it highly.

I am a long time Linux user and rarely have to resort to Bill Gates.
There is enough software to operate the 60CSx running Linux with OSM.
Mapsource will run with Wine, although as you might expect it won't
access it directly through USB because the driver is not compatible. It
will access it via mounting as USB Mass Storage. I have a licensed copy
of Mapwel which runs under wine but again can't access directly the USB
port except through Mass Storage.

In Linux the main programmes I use are gebabbel(frontend)/gpsbabel to
access the 60CSx directly. To create garmin img files from OSM data to
Java programmes osmcut.jar to reduce the OSM files to a reasonable size
to process and mkgmap.jar to produce the img files and then combine them
into the gmapsupp.img file that the 60CSx wants. I have a bash script
that downloads the osm files from geofabrik.de cuts the files into img
files for the eight countries I'm interested in.

I use JOSM(Java OSM) to add the gpx data and edit the OSM files, there
are other editors but I guess I'll stick with this one as I'm getting
used to it. Hope this helps.

-- 
Bob Cox -- coxb at lpi.org.uk
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