[OSM-talk] GPSBabel 1.3.5

[Tom Higgy]

OK, my BGT-31 arrived today so did some testing of it after work (which 
got cut short by a drawing pin in the front wheel).

Unfortunately for me, although I'd put the SD card in I'd forgotten to 
turn on logging so have only the internal log at 10 seconds.

Eventually got gpsbabel 1.3.5 installed on Ubuntu (.rpm to .deb via 
alien) to try it out.

I dumped 2 files to SD card - a .BIN and a .SBP file but no idea what 
either of them are. I tried converting these (using navilink as input 
format) and got a 339 byte GPX file for each. Identical result for doing 
via USB cable connection.

Fortunately there is an alternative: the navilink.pl[1] script does work.

Cheers,

[1] http://www.splitbrain.org/projects/navilink

Tom Hughes wrote:
> GPSBabel 1.3.5 was released a few days ago, and for those of you using
> the popular NaviGPS units I am pleased to be able to say that the new
> release of GPSBabel includes native support for the NaviGPS.
> 
> This includes both direct access to stored tracks, routes and
> waypoints via the USB cable as well as the ability to decode waypoints
> and tracks copied to the SD card if you are using a recent release of
> the NaviGPS firmware that supports that.
> 
> The code has been tested with my GT-11 unit but should work with the
> BGT-11 as well, and will hopefully work with the new GT-31 and BGT-31
> units when they arrive - please let me know if you manage to test with
> one of those.
> 
> The name for the new driver is "navilink", so to recover waypoints
> over the USB cable on linux you would do something like:
> 
>   gpsbabel -w -f navilink -i /dev/ttyUSB0 -F gpx -o waypoints.gpx
> 
> Any problems, give me a shout...
> 
> Tom
>