[OSM-talk] NaviGPS... help! :-)

[Tom Hughes]

In message <OFDDFEABB0.2A8A9377-ON80257375.00338415-80257375.00340154 at solent-university.ac.uk>
        Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:

> We did get some stuff off yesterday but at a struggle -- what happened was 
> that one of the guys with a laptop downloaded some "make USB a virtual 
> serial port" software for Windows and Mac and got the stuff off through a 
> proprietary "NaviRead" program or somesuch. There was no other way it was 
> coming off. *However*, only waypoints seemed to be recorded - not tracks. 
> I guess the SD card wasn't full as no error message came up when it was 
> switched on, it was indicating the "writing to card" symbol, and it 
> recorded the waypoints.

You can recover both waypoints and tracks via USB but that is only
the internal track recorder which probably wasn't switched on and
only has limited space (about 8000 points I think).

You probably had the NMEA logger switched on which logs in NMEA format
to the SD card. That data cannot be read via the USB cable.

> So how do I mount and read the SD card on either Linux or Windows?

You need a machine with a card reader, then you take the card out 
and put it in the reader and use gpsbabel to convert the log files
to GPX format.

Tom

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