Sorry, Philippe, for the direct reply...forgot evolution doesn't reply to the list...or if I'm even still active to reply, as I've been inactive quite a while here... Have you looked at gpsdrive? I use a Garmin GPS35 in serial NEMA mode. One output to a laptop running gpsdrive, and the second serial port running to a TinyTracker for APRS (Ham radio locator system). For a while, was sending the GPS35 via telemetry to a PC in engineering to track our news helicopter on gpsdrive...quite fun. Tom in NM KE5QFK On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 11:14 +0200, Philippe Andersson wrote:

Hello Roger,

Thanks a lot for your answer, first of all.

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 15:16 +0200, Philippe Andersson wrote:

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Hello List,

I will have to replace my car's GPS device soon. Could anyone recommend a brand/model that is linux-friendly (and current) ? By that I mean:

- maps can be updated from linux (or without a computer) - POIs can be uploaded and downloaded from linux

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences.

Start by adding this repo. There are things there in addition to what comes with the standard distro:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/

There is some Garmin support on Linux. Like QLandkarte or mkgmap. I don't use them and thus cannot comment. But they claim to work with Garmin receivers. Maybe there is ither software in this repo that indicates support for some other consumer gps model.

We use Trimble, Applanix and OxTS. But then again we use our own software, and don't use waypoints (high end receivers seldom do waypoints).

I investigated the various software on offer in this repo, but it mostly deals with the handling of waypoints from small handheld GPS devices used for outdoor activities. Others are GISS/Grass or re-implementations of navigation software. I didn't see anything there that could replace the vendor-provided software from Garmin or TomTom.

Has anyone here had a successful linux experience with a car satnav system ?

TIA

Ph. A.

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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