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On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 14:22 -0500, Malcolm wrote:
The only thing I haven't been able to do on my Nuvi 260 is update firmware. I use crossover with mapsource (with a dosdevice softlink for usb connection to a drive) so I can upload either topo or drive maps, waypoints, POI's etc. gpsd and gpsbabel make it possible for any raw data requirements and conversion. The only thing I need to do is start the Garmin and put into debug mode then connect to the netbook for data to flow.
Have you tried QLandkarte? It claims: "Garmin's MapSource software is hardly the only reason for me to boot into Windows and it does not look like Garmin ever wants to address Linux users by writing a portable piece of software. So I started to help myself. I found several tools like GPSBabel or sendmap to handle data for my GPS receiver but no tool to visualize and manage this data in a decent way. On my quest I found a specification of the used IMG format for maps at Sourceforge. After some reading and toying around I considered this specification good enough to start a GUI project to visualize such files. QLandkarte is the result of this effort. Including additional patches by fseidel@suse.de which are upstream and tested but not yet released elsewhere." I have not used it, but it sounds like it addresses what you want. The other Garmin related things I have found for Linux are: http://garmin-gps.sourceforge.net/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Hardware/Microsecond_Precision_F... http://www.sput.nl/time/garmin.html http://freshmeat.net/projects/ppskit/ (not garmin-specific, but related) These are more tools for using the Garmin than map and waypoint interfaces. But I thought they might be interesting while on the topic of GPS. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org