Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?
On 03.07.12. 04:27, Tapio Sokura wrote: I'm planning on purchasing a new handheld GPS unit for general purpose outdoor use as well as OSM mapping. I've previously used a Garmin gpsmap 60csx, in which I really liked the feature that saves raw tracklogs also to the microsd card in gpx format. Do any of the newer models support this kind of automatic raw-tracklog-to-card functionality? The touch screen Montana/Oregon/Dakota and gpsmap 62/78 series? Oregon does saves tracklogs in GPX format. I believe every new model does. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?
I can't be certain but I suspect any Garmin unit that takes a micro SD card can store a daily gpx tracklog file nowadays. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Tapio Sokura [mailto:oh2...@iki.fi] Sent: 03 July 2012 03:27 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog? Hello, I'm planning on purchasing a new handheld GPS unit for general purpose outdoor use as well as OSM mapping. I've previously used a Garmin gpsmap 60csx, in which I really liked the feature that saves raw tracklogs also to the microsd card in gpx format. Do any of the newer models support this kind of automatic raw-tracklog-to- card functionality? The touch screen Montana/Oregon/Dakota and gpsmap 62/78 series? I've always liked the Garmin units, but I might be persuaded to buy some other make. If there are any good candidates..? Tapio ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?
2012/7/3 Tapio Sokura oh2...@iki.fi: I'm planning on purchasing a new handheld GPS unit for general purpose outdoor use as well as OSM mapping. I've previously used a Garmin gpsmap 60csx, in which I really liked the feature that saves raw tracklogs also to the microsd card in gpx format. Do any of the newer models support this kind of automatic raw-tracklog-to-card functionality? The touch screen Montana/Oregon/Dakota and gpsmap 62/78 series? Last time I looked at this the 62-series did NOT store the tracks on the micro-SD-card like the 60csx does. It stores the tracks on the 1.7GB internal memory (so yes, this is also quite infinite, but it is not the same, e.g. you can't use an external card-reader to get these tracks). The newer models like the 62series also seem to have an automatic track-compression you cannot turn off (so no raw tracklogs) if I recall right. You can find a lot of info about these devices also in the osm-wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Garmin/GPS_series cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?
On 3.7.2012 10:54, Mike wrote: Oregon does saves tracklogs in GPX format. I believe every new model does. That's what I understand as well. But after reading a few Garmin manuals and googling around for a while I still haven't found a solid answer to this question: How many trackpoints will the unit store before it begins overwriting old ones or stops collecting new tracklog altogether? Some sources seem to hint that the maximum amount of trackpoints a single GPX file on new Garmins can contain is 10k, good for a bit under 3 hours of tracklog taken with 1 second interval. The maximum number of distinct GPX files archived in the device could be 20, 200 or maybe even unlimited (=limited by free memory on the device) depending on the source. 10k trackpoints times 200 files is 2 million trackpoints or about 23 days of continuous tracklog, which would probably be enough for me. But does the auto-archiving/rotating feature produce tracklog files that are of the assumed 10k maximum size? Can someone confirm that tracklogs automatically archived by newer generation Garmins can contain more than 10k points and/or have had more than 20 or 200 automatically archived GPX files in the device at one time? Tapio ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?
2012/7/3 Tapio Sokura oh2...@iki.fi: Can someone confirm that tracklogs automatically archived by newer generation Garmins can contain more than 10k points and/or have had more than 20 or 200 automatically archived GPX files in the device at one time? AFAIK at least the 62series does not store every second a point but instead does some smoothing on the track (i.e. it will contain less points than one per second, but it will probably not be what you want). I don't own a 62series device but a friend of mine does and when I borrowed it I couldn't manage to get raw tracklogs logged, neither to the sd-card nor to the internal memory. Please note that with raw tracklogs I intend positions and timestamps as with the older 60csx, actually these logs are never raw, neither on the older 60csx:, they are always position data calculated from the raw signal by some secret algorithm (you can notice this for instance when entering into a tunnel and the track continues in the former direction for a short time even when there is no reception at all). cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?
The Garmin Edge 800 stores in some .fit format rather than GPX. I've still not found some tools to batch convert from that format to .gpx. Shaun On 3 Jul 2012, at 09:03, Andy Robinson wrote: I can't be certain but I suspect any Garmin unit that takes a micro SD card can store a daily gpx tracklog file nowadays. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Tapio Sokura [mailto:oh2...@iki.fi] Sent: 03 July 2012 03:27 To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog? Hello, I'm planning on purchasing a new handheld GPS unit for general purpose outdoor use as well as OSM mapping. I've previously used a Garmin gpsmap 60csx, in which I really liked the feature that saves raw tracklogs also to the microsd card in gpx format. Do any of the newer models support this kind of automatic raw-tracklog-to- card functionality? The touch screen Montana/Oregon/Dakota and gpsmap 62/78 series? I've always liked the Garmin units, but I might be persuaded to buy some other make. If there are any good candidates..? Tapio ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?
On 3 Jul 2012, at 16:16, Shaun McDonald wrote: The Garmin Edge 800 stores in some .fit format rather than GPX. I've still not found some tools to batch convert from that format to .gpx. The ANT SDK has some sample code for decoding .fit files: http://www.thisisant.com/pages/developer-zone/fit-sdk The sample just dumps out lat/lon/timestamp samples, but it's easy enough to munge into gpx or the like. -dair ___ d...@refnum.com http://www.refnum.com/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Current Garmin units with unlimited tracklog?
On 03/07/2012 16:16, Shaun McDonald wrote: The Garmin Edge 800 stores in some .fit format rather than GPX. I've still not found some tools to batch convert from that format to .gpx. The latest version of GPSBabel (v.1.4.3) claims to support FIT format. Though it didn't seem to work when I tried using it for FIT files from my Forerunner 110. Or you can download from the Edge into Garmin Training Center or BaseCamp, then export as GPX. Though that's probably not very convenient for a lot of files. Craig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
