On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Kevin Ratcliff <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been playing with gpsman (version 6.4) and am getting the message > "Unknown file format name: Shapefile_2D" when trying to download a GPS > track with Xastir, and Google led me to the above thread. I haven't > tested the patch yet, but I'm assuming that's my problem. I'll test it > later when I have more time.
Tested the patch with my Garmin 60CSx. Worked great and I can download tracks, though now I have another question: The GPS track was downloaded to ~/.xastir/gps/. That's fine, but it needs to be in the maps directory to show up in the map chooser, right? I solved this problem by creating a symbolic link in /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/ to ~/.xastir/gps/, and then each time I download a new GPS track I use Map->Configure->Add New Maps. That seemed to work, but is that the right way to do it? I wonder if I'm missing something that's supposed to make this easier or more automated. There's a 'GPS' directory in my maps directory, but it just contains a placeholder. I'm not sure what that directory is good for. Aha...found some info in README.MAPS about this; looks like maybe that's where gpsman used to put stuff. > In theory the following > command should work for newer model Garmin USB GPS units, right? > > gpsman -dev usb=/dev/ttyUSB0 -log -rec Garmin getwrite TR Shapefile > dim=2 astrotest This works with my Garmin 60CSx as well. Cool! Hope it works with the Astro receiver as well. Can't seem to get anything on Ubuntu to talk to my Garmin 62s, and Google is no help this time, but the 62s was just released a few months ago so perhaps the software hasn't caught up yet; not too worried about that at the moment. Thanks! Kevin KB9MQU _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
