[Qgis-user] Hello

Wed Jan 13 15:12:50 PST 2010

Hi Pierre or anyone else that has success with connecting to a GPS with QGIS through the GPS plugin.

I am trying to connect a Garmin GPS that has a com to usb converter cable.  Other apps. read my GPS from COM3, and work just fine.

I just installed QGIS 1.4, and GPS babel is installed, and I have set the PATH under environmental variables so that QGIS will see gpsbabel.  But whenever I go to download from my GPS, I either get the message that 'GPS Babel would not start', or 'this layer could not be added to the map'

What is the code that you are using for your GPS unit under devices in the GPS Device Editor?
The default for Garmin under the waypoint command is %gpsbabel -w -i garmin -o gpx "%in" "%out"
I've also tried %babel -w -i garmin -f COM: -o gpx -F gps.gpx  but have not had luck.

Thanks,

Paul 

> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:54:20 +0100
> From: pierrechevaliergeol at free.fr
> To: a.neumann at carto.net
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Hello
> CC: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> 
> All right, I haven't tried it.  Actually, I don't use the print 
> composer, I usually export maps from the mapper, which works fine for 
> me. I try the print composer right now.  Oh, it has changed much.  Let's 
> see...
> 
> But I still think that a graticule displayed on the mapper would be very 
> helpful, when you work on maps.
> 
> A+
> Pierre
> 
> PS: sorry, I first replied out of the list.
> 
> Andreas Neumann claviota:
> > regarding the coordinate grid:
> >
> > this is now in the print composer (Version 1.4 and above). No more
> > complicated workarounds or separate plugins ... This new feature is
> > available when a map item is selected and active in the print composer.
> > Activate the grid with the checkbox and make your settings. I am sure that
> > there are special cases not handled in the print composer, like grid in a
> > different coordinate system than your data (eg. data in UTM and grid in
> > degrees (lat/lon)). But most general cases should be possible now.
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> >
> > On Wed, January 13, 2010 9:29 am, Pierre Chevalier GÃ©ologue wrote:
> >   
> >> Good morning,
> >>
> >> Brett Adams claviota:
> >>     
> >>> Hi Pierre,
> >>> I'm a geophysicist in Australia, working primarily in Nickel and IOCG.
> >>> Just started my own consultantsy this year and started with Qgis last
> >>> week. My requirements of Qgis sound very similar to yours.
> >>>       
> >> Certainly.  You geophysicists like bright colours, and we geologists
> >> have more dull colours, but after all, we are dealing with the same
> >> thing: rocks, displayed on maps! ;)
> >> So I believe we should have similar requirements!
> >>
> >>     
> >>> How are you getting a coordinate grid around your maps?
> >>>       
> >> Not easily.  Usually, I generate several graticules using the
> >> appropriate plugin, which creates a shapefile for each graticule.  I
> >> have to manually change the srid, and then I overlay all my graticules,
> >> using different transparencies, to get a neat visual effect.  I also
> >> play with labels, according to map scale and the step of graticule.
> >>
> >>     
> >>> I'm hoping you have a better (faster) system than me.
> >>>       
> >> I'm afraid not... ;(
> >>
> >>     
> >>> My process works but is a bit of stuffing about. I generate a vector
> >>> grid, edit the DBF file, reimport the DBF then get the labels organised.
> >>>       
> >> All right: then, you end up with points with a little cross symbol, if I
> >> understand well, with labels around them.
> >>
> >> I believe this is a feature that would be needed by many of us, qgis
> >> users.  I had the plan to try to write a plugin to do a neat graticule,
> >> generated every time the map is changed, with coordinates every 1km, or
> >> 100m, or 1000km, depending on the zoom, or 1Â°, or 30", etc. depending on
> >> the srid (which may be different from the map).  But no time...
> >> So many software packages already do this neatly, so I guess it should
> >> not be too difficult to adapt their code.  I'm thinking of viking, for
> >> instance.
> >>
> >> A+
> >> Pierre
> >>
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