FC6 and Garmin GPS

Marcel J.E. Mol marcel at mesa.nl
Tue Feb 13 21:14:38 UTC 2007


On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:56:34AM -0800, Les wrote:
> 'On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 07:12 -0800, Michael A Peters wrote:
> > Howdy all -
> > 
> > I have a Garmin "etrex Legend" hand held GPS unit.
> > 
> > I bought it for my field herping hobby (looking for wild reptiles and
> > amphibians).
> > It came with a serial cable for connecting to a PC but software is only
> > for Windows. I don't want to buy the software and try with w/ wine/CXO
> > because it it doesn't work then I wasted money, and I have not had
> > software that interfaces with hardware (such as a serial port) ever work
> > well in CXO.
> > 
> > Since spring is almost here, I'd like an easier way to use it in Linux
> > rather than just manually reading the collected waypoints and entering
> > them into my field reports.
> > 
> > What I would like to do is to be able to read waypoints right off the
> > unit through a cable (either serial or, if one is available, a USB
> > cable) into Linux.

gpsbabel is what I use to get data to and from the GPS.

-Marcel




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