[OSM-talk] Software for RS 232 transfer

[Andy Robinson]

Steve,

On all the Etrex range you have to have the interface setting in the unit
set to "GARMIN" (or "GARMIN DGPS" I think will work too) in order to
download the active tracks with gpsbabel. NMEA is a real time transfer
format, sentences spewed out every 1 second so. You use that format when you
are logging directly to a computer, unless you are using Garmin's mapsource
software on the computer, in which case you still use the GARMIN setting as
far as I recall.

Good to get that down on the wiki. I'm surprised its not already there
somewhere.

Trust it otherwise went well yesterday.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve [mailto:stephen.isaac at gmail.com]
>Sent: 06 September 2006 10:12 PM
>To: Andy Robinson
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Software for RS 232 transfer
>
>Hi Andy. Sorry for replying off the list, but my email address bounces
>as I haven't yet worked out how to send mail from my domain (which is my
>osm account address).
>
>I'll update the wiki tomorrow but I thought you might be interested:
>
>I've just been to the society of Cartographers and this came up and it
>stumped me, Nick W and Steve Chilton during the workshop for half an
>hour. We couldn't get gpsbabel to download data over the serial port
>from four yellow Garmin Etrex units. They support multiple interface
>modes which can be set on the unit. Somehow we had ours configured in
>NMEA transfer mode. With gpsbabel with the commands on the wiki we got
>something like 'Error - some data was sent but incorrect format' type
>message. It was just chance playing around in the menu options that we
>found the existence of these settings on the units and was then able to
>get to the data.
>
>I'll add a comment or something on the wiki, but as I don't have the
>means to communicate with the devices now (I have no serial cable), I
>cannot explore anymore (my own unit is a PDA) and my memory is fairly
>vague about how to navigate the menu settings to change it.
>
>Just thought I'd pass it on,
>S
>
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 17:42 +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
>> Stephan,
>>
>> You need to transfer the tracklog file from the Geko to the computer and
>> convert it to gpx format for upload to OSM. You can achieve the former in
>> one swoop using GPSBabel.
>>
>> The details are on the wiki at:
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Making_GPX_Tracks
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> 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 Stephan Schildberg
>> >Sent: 06 September 2006 5:09 PM
>> >To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>> >Subject: [OSM-talk] Software for RS 232 transfer
>> >
>> >I cannot find suitable information to download my tracks from my Garmin
>> >Geko 201, which I purchased recently.
>> >Obviously Garmin gives a shit about software in the package, so I ask
>> >you kindly which software do you use to transfer data to MS Windows.
>> >Could you please write and document this more bold into the Wiki at
>> >appropriate places?
>> >
>> >I certainly do not want to buy another software doing this, so I would
>> >be pleased being pointed to a free solution.
>> >
>> >regards, Stephan.
>> >
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