GPS - Porting Garmin Software to Linux

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Porting Garmin Software to Linux

MikeyCarter

2007-01-23, 10:33 am

I'm trying to convince Garmin that there would be a benefit to porting
their map software to linux. Even if your not a linux user by
convincing Garmin to port to Linux it gives everyone options.

If I could get as many people as possible to sign the petition below it
would be much appreciated.

http://www.petitiononline.com/Garmin/petition.html

Thank you.

Simon Slavin

2007-01-25, 10:33 pm

On 23/01/2007, MikeyCarter wrote in message
<1169567709.359041.186410@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>:

> I'm trying to convince Garmin that there would be a benefit to porting
> their map software to linux. Even if your not a linux user by
> convincing Garmin to port to Linux it gives everyone options.

What's stopping you making a start yourself, just to prove that you're
willing to put the effort in ? A good start would be software which
handles everything that the GPX (with or without Garmin's extensions) can
handle: waypoints, tracks and routes. The features I've mentioned are all
part of what MapSource does, so the programming would probably all be
useful for the finished application.

If you did that it might convince Garmin that you were willing to put some
effort in as you claim on the petition's page.

Simon.
--
http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk

erasmo

2007-01-26, 3:33 pm

already done :-)

http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/

On Jan 25, 5:01 pm, Simon Slavin
<slavins.delete.these.four.wo...@hearsay.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23/01/2007, MikeyCarter wrote in message<1169567709.359041.186...@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>:
>
> willing to put the effort in ? A good start would be software which
> handles everything that the GPX (with or without Garmin's extensions) can
> handle: waypoints, tracks and routes. The features I've mentioned are all
> part of what MapSource does, so the programming would probably all be
> useful for the finished application.
>
> If you did that it might convince Garmin that you were willing to put some
> effort in as you claim on the petition's page.
>
> Simon.
> --http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk

Durduran

2007-01-26, 10:33 pm

On 2007-01-26, erasmo <perez.erasmo@gmail.com> wrote:
> already done :-)
>
> http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/

are you sure about that? Can I load up maps that are in my mapsource CDs
and search/sort/select and upload them to my gps? I just installed it on
Ubuntu (edgy) linux and I am having difficulty doing anything with it and
can't really tell what is going on from the documentation. I suspect some
graphical library is missing which is odd since I got it through apt-get
from the Ubuntu repositories.

erasmo

2007-01-27, 4:33 am

no, you can't upload garmin background maps, sadly

but you can do other interesting stuff, like handling "everything that
the GPX (with or without Garmin's extensions) can handle: waypoints,
tracks and routes"

in order to access my Garmin maps I still need MapSource (in Windows)
:-(

On Jan 26, 6:20 pm, Durduran
<durduranREMOV...@REMOVEMEweb-facstaff.sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On 2007-01-26, erasmo <perez.era...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> and search/sort/select and upload them to my gps? I just installed it on
> Ubuntu (edgy) linux and I am having difficulty doing anything with it and
> can't really tell what is going on from the documentation. I suspect some
> graphical library is missing which is odd since I got it through apt-get
> from the Ubuntu repositories.

Durduran

2007-01-27, 10:34 pm

On 2007-01-27, erasmo <perez.erasmo@gmail.com> wrote:
> no, you can't upload garmin background maps, sadly
>
> but you can do other interesting stuff, like handling "everything that
> the GPX (with or without Garmin's extensions) can handle: waypoints,
> tracks and routes"
>
> in order to access my Garmin maps I still need MapSource (in Windows)
>:-(

that is the big problem/annoyance that I have too (*) and I think it is
worth pushing companies to write "multi-platform" software , specially
big ones like garmin who can afford the effort -- or release enough
information that the open source world can write them.

turgut

(*) so I end up carrying around a copy of vmware, and a windows 2000
vmware image with mapsource installed.

erasmo

2007-02-03, 3:33 pm

hi dear Forum:

i have found the following very useful software (QLandkarte) that give
us access to our Garmin maps ... in Linux :-)

http://qlandkarte.sourceforge.net

it supports importing of: Garmin maps, tracks and waypoints

thank you Oliver Eichler (author of QLandkarte)

have fun ! :-)

On Jan 27, 9:01 pm, Durduran <durduranREMOV...@REMOVEMEweb-
facstaff.sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On 2007-01-27, erasmo <perez.era...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> that is the big problem/annoyance that I have too (*) and I think it is
> worth pushing companies to write "multi-platform" software , specially
> big ones likegarminwho can afford the effort -- or release enough
> information that the open source world can write them.
>
> turgut
>
> (*) so I end up carrying around a copy of vmware, and a windows 2000
> vmware image with mapsource installed.

Beartooth

2008-01-27, 3:33 pm

On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:34:34 -0800, erasmo wrote:

> i have found the following very useful software (QLandkarte) that give
> us access to our Garmin maps ... in Linux :-)
>
> http://qlandkarte.sourceforge.net
>
> it supports importing of: Garmin maps, tracks and waypoints

Trying to get Qlandkarte, I've hit a snag.

I installed an ordinary rpm for F8 of proj-4 with rpm -ivh; and
yum tells me "Package qt - 1:3.3.8-9.fc8.i386 is already installed"; but
then I come the troubles.

The third prerequisite for QLandkarte, according to its website,
is Qt 4.2.x -- but I see only downloads for source code, which is beyond
me.

Are there ordinary binaries somewhere? Or at least tarballs?

Oh, and just to check : the maps QLandkarte gives access to *do*
include *topo* maps, right??

--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

miso@sushi.com

2008-01-28, 3:33 pm

On Jan 27, 11:06 am, Beartooth <Bearto...@swva.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:34:34 -0800, erasmo wrote:
>
>
>
> Trying to get Qlandkarte, I've hit a snag.
>
> I installed an ordinary rpm for F8 of proj-4 with rpm -ivh; and
> yum tells me "Package qt - 1:3.3.8-9.fc8.i386 is already installed"; but
> then I come the troubles.
>
> The third prerequisite for QLandkarte, according to its website,
> is Qt 4.2.x -- but I see only downloads for source code, which is beyond
> me.
>
> Are there ordinary binaries somewhere? Or at least tarballs?
>
> Oh, and just to check : the maps QLandkarte gives access to *do*
> include *topo* maps, right??
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
> Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

Source code compilation isn't all that bad. Typically you download a
tarbal. You run tar much like any unzipping program. Generally
tar -xvf filename
where filename is what you downloaded. I generally put the file under /
usr/local/src/new_directiory, where new_directory in this case would
be qlandkarte

tar makes a new directory. cd into that directory, and you will find
instructions. Usually this is
../configure
make
make install

I installed QLandkarte yesterday, so I would need to double check, but
IIRC the program didn't have the ./configure step.

I ran the program, downloading waypoints and tracks from my 60cdx.
However, it doesn't want to download maps. Still, pretty good for a
first effort.

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