Magellan GPS - looking for free(?) software to download 'ant trail' data from old GPS

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looking for free(?) software to download 'ant trail' data from old GPS

jonathan cano

2005-11-17, 5:48 pm

I have a very old Magellan Meridian GPS (yellow plastic with black
rubber, monochrome screen).

I have a serial cable for connecting my computer to the GPS.

I currently don't have any software for interfacing with the GPS. What
I want is a program that will allow me to download the 'ant trail' data
currently stored in the GPS. Once I get the raw data (presumably in a
documented format) I then plan to process the data in a program that I
will write (e.g. keeping statistics about how long various segments of
my work commute take to traverse).

I'm expecting I can download the ant trail data and I will get a bunch
of data points

(latitude, longitude, time).

Is there a free program I can download from the internet that will
allow me to do this simple task? I don't want to upload map data to my
GPS, I don't want a visual representation of the data I download, I
just want to pull the data off the GPS.

I've tried googling a bit but haven't turned anything useful up yet.

Cheers,
--fj

Eddy [UK]

2005-11-17, 5:48 pm

Hi Jonathan,

http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/#g7towin

is free, and

http://www.gpsu.co.uk/

is shareware.

Both can output ascii text files from which you can extract what
you want.

Regards, Eddy [UK]

jonathan cano

2005-11-19, 11:48 pm

thanks guys!

--jc

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