[GRASS5] s.in.garmin

[Michael Barton]

On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 03:01  AM, grass5-request at grass.itc.it 
wrote:

> Looking at 5.3's s.in.garmin, I don't see anything to stop it working
> with 5.7, now that 5.7 has s.in.ascii. It should just work! Just copy
> the script and try. Please report success or failure so it can be added
> to 5.7 if it works or fixed to do so.

I haven't had a chance to try this, though I use Garmins in the field 
and will give it a try. I don't know whether or not this is relevant, 
but everyone should note that s.in.ascii in GRASS 5.7 is quite 
different from s.in.ascii in GRASS 5.3.

In GRASS 5.7, s.in.ascii does not create a GRASS sites list, but a set 
of vector points. v.point.in.ascii might be a more accurate name. More 
importantly, AFAICT it does not read any attributes beyond the x,y (and 
z?) dimensions plus a cat variable. This latter is very important for 
using it as a Garmin file import utility. It will import the x,y 
locations, but none of the other information in the Garmin file.

Michael Barton
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