On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:01 +0000, Russ Phillips wrote: > > I guess the Legend HCx (as suggested by Dermot) is a god option. But if > > you could spend a little more maybe Garmin Oregon 200 is the thing for > > you. Originally I planned buying the Legend, but after holdning the > > Oregon I could no resist. :-) > > Too rich for me, I'm afraid :-( Looks like I'll be getting a Legend HCx > > > Weekly build of maps from all countries can be downloaded in native > > Garmin (img) format from Cloudmade: > > http://downloads.cloudmade.com/ > > That could be quite useful. I'd intended to make my own, but I might > just be lazy and download them from there ;-) > > >> - It would be nice to be able to store multiple track logs, giving > >> each one a name (I don't know if *any* GPS can do this, but I figured > >> it's worth an ask) > > > > Not sure chat you mean. > > An example - if I walk down a footpath, it would be nice to save a > track log of that walk and name it something like "Footpath", then > walk along a canal, save that as a new track log named "Canal". The > idea being that when I then loaded them into JOSM it would make it > easier to mark up the new features. That doesn't appear to be > possible, though. > > > With my Vista CX, gpsbabel has no trouble creating gpx from whatever > > it sees on the Vista. With the unit *not* in mass storage mode > > (since I can't get waypoints if it's in that mode), I do: > > gpsbabel -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F waypoints.gpx > > gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F tracklog.gpx > > With the Navit, I use the navilink.pl script to get waypoints, and > simply copy tracklogs from the SD card. I imagine I'll do something > similar with the Garmin. > > Thanks to everyone for the advice and help. > > Russ > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
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