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

[Barnett, Phillip]

'Sorry, download from garmin GPS receiver failed'

And the output from the more detailed monitor says - 'output from
gpsbabel: Gpsbabel encountered an error'

Maybe you wee using a Legend C rather than CX?

Phillip 

-----Original Message-----
From: SteveC [mailto:steve at asklater.com] 
Sent: 23 May 2006 10:13
To: Barnett, Phillip
Cc: Christian van den Bosch; talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Choice of GPS for bicycle use in London

* @ 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
> 
> http://www.cjb.ie/
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have fun,

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