DESCRIPTION

v.in.gpsbabel allows the user to import waypoint, route, and track data from a locally connected GPS receiver, or any other GPS text file via the gpsbabel program.

Use at your own risk. This software comes with absolutely no warranty.

EXAMPLES

Import waypoints from /dev/ttyS0 garmin GPS in waypoints binary vector file
v.in.gpsbabel -w file=/dev/ttyS0 format=garmin output=waypoints

Import tracks from /dev/ttyS0 garmin GPS in tracks binary vector file
v.in.gpsbabel -w file=/dev/ttyS0 format=garmin output=tracks

Import routes as points from /dev/ttyS0 garmin GPS in routePoints binary vector file
v.in.gpsbabel -r -p file=/dev/ttyS0 format=garmin output=routePoints

NOTES

v.in.gpsbabel automatically reproject data using this of current location. The default input data projection is WGS84, if your GPS uses any other projection, insert cs2cs options needed by your projection and v.in.gpsbabel will reproject your data correctly. The automatic transform may be skipped by using the -k flag.

Route and Track data may be uploaded as points by using the -p flag, otherwise they will be imported as a line. You can run v.in.gpsbabel multiple times and merge the line and point vectors with the v.patch command if you want, but take care when merging dissimilar attribute tables.

When we tested the script with garmin GPS, we noticed that importing waypoints the time field is not correctly set. The data reported is a default system time, while with a gpx text file this thing did not happen. We believe that is a gpsbabel trouble in translating from garmin to xcsv ...

SEE ALSO

db.execute
v.in.ascii
v.db.connect
v.patch

gpsbabel gpsbabel.org
cs2cs from PROJ.4

AUTHORS

Claudio Porta & Lucio Davide Spano, students of Computer Science University of Pisa (Italy).
Commission from Faunalia Pontedera (PI)
Based on v.in.garmin for GRASS 6.0 by Hamish Bowman

BUGS

Pleas send bugs reports to spano@cli.di.unipi.it

Last changed: $Date: 2005/12/14 18:38:44 $

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