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

Steve Coast steve at asklater.com
Mon Oct 15 11:31:28 BST 2007


Nick... just to check I thought I put a USB SD card reader in the bag  
- it should just have popped up as a mass storage device

On 15 Oct 2007, at 10:28, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

>> Nick
>> If these are the OSM loan Navis then all logging is done to the SD  
>> card.
> So all you need to do is mount and read the SD card.  No special  
> >software
> required.
>
>> The SD cards will contain a series of NMEA .txt files which can be
> converted to GPX using gpsbabel.
>
>> HTH
>> 80n
>
> Hello Etienne,
>
> OK thanks.
> 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.
>
> So how do I mount and read the SD card on either Linux or Windows?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
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have fun,

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