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

[Barnett, Phillip]

Point taken. 

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From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andy Robinson
Sent: 23 May 2006 18:09
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Choice of GPS for bicycle use in London

Have you tried posting to the gpsbabel-misc at lists.sourceforge.net
mailing list? Pretty responsive to issues in my experience.

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- 
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Barnett, Phillip
>Sent: 23 May 2006 17:29
>To: SteveC
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Choice of GPS for bicycle use in London
>
>'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
>>
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>have fun,
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