On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Jean Christophe Andr? <jean-christophe.andre at auf.org> wrote: > Tom Lancaster a ?crit : >> what's tricky is the proprietary garmin interface (round with 4 pins). > Is it just a connector problem or is there some electronic inside their > cable? > > Because if it's only about the connector, I'm pretty sure you can ask > people in Vietnam (some student in electronic? or even just electricity) > to make a custom-bust-still-professional cable for about a few USD (just > don't forget to pay the student too ;-) )? > > Is the use of the 4 pins documented somewhere? There is not that much > possibilities though? Probably 1 for RX, 1 for TX, 1 for ground and may > be 1 for synchronization clock? >
Here's a diagram: http://www.pfranc.com/projects/g45contr/assemb.htm (Dr. TV) If there are any handy volunteers to make some cables I'll tell OSM to send us as many Geko's as they can (Hai Phong needs mapping, too) Tom >> On the Garmin website they're selling them for ~ $60, which is close to half >> the cost of the GPS unit! >> > At that price I doubt it's only a cable. Probably more a dongle? And may > be not compatible with Linux at all? May be the easiest way is to ask > for all these information to the OSM project? > > -- > Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? ? ? Responsable technique r?gional > Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) ? ? ? http://www.asie-pacifique.auf.org/ > Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? ? ? http://www.auf.org/ > Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam > T?l. : +84 4 9331108 ? Fax : +84 4 8247383 ? Cellul. : +84 91 3248747 > ? Note personnelle: merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? > ? ou Word, cf http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines > _______________________________________________ > HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ > HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/ >
