[GRASSLIST:9089] Re: OFT: gpsbabel and usb serial adapter

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:00:40PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <marchesini at unipg.it> flavor, containing:
> Dear users,
> does anyone has been able to download and uplod data from a garmin etrex
> connected to the laptop by a usb serial port adapter???
> I have tried with gpsbabel, but without success

I have done this with "GPSman" on my laptop.  THe nice thing about GPSman is 
that with the "gpsmanshp"  plugin you can get it to export the tracks, routes,
and waypoints directly to shapefile for input into a GIS.

GPSman can be had at http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/
and gpsmanshp is at http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsmanshp/

Hope that helps.

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