[OSM-talk] Choice of GPS for bicycle use in London

[SteveC]

* @ 23/05/06 09:39:34 AM Phillip.Barnett at itn.co.uk wrote:
> Hmm. I tried this last night - no dice. The Legend CX/Mac OS X

huh? we were happily using macgpsbabel at mapchester.. I'm pretty sure
we did at least one legend cx

> combination is currently not supported by anybody, even by proprietary
> software which I'm loathe to purchase (yes, I know - OS X is proprietary
> but that's my one compromise to have a good looking Unix desktop)
> 
> :-(
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian van den Bosch [mailto:cjb at cjb.ie] 
> Sent: 22 May 2006 11:00
> To: Barnett, Phillip
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Choice of GPS for bicycle use in London
> 
> Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> > (It's also annoying that I can't get track logs directly out using my 
> > Powerbook, but have to turn on my ancient PC in the basement. I was 
> > hoping to do some logging in North Wales this summer, but editing will
> 
> > be a pain - and may have to wait indefinitely. Anyone have an update 
> > on Garmin's 'Mac support in 2006' statement?)
> 
> Doesn't gpsbabel exist on mac? You may find that some variant on this
> script works for you - it's what I use on linux to to read tracks from
> my Garmin connected via a usb-serial adaptor:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> T=garmin,poweroff
> I=/dev/ttyUSB0
> D=`date +%Y%m%d-%H`
> O=$HOME/gps/$D.gpx
> echo Reading tracks from $T at $I, writing gpx to $O gpsbabel -t -i $T
> -f $I -o gpx -F $O ls -l $O
> 
> Christian / cjb
> 
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have fun,

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