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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='margin-left:3.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.75pt'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have the gpsmap60 and this seems not to work for me. Is the 62 different in that respect or do I make a mistake trying it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>My explorer cannot find the garmin unit. Only if I set it to mass storage does it display some information, but then it’s only the maps within the unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks for any help<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Jake<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lene Fischer<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 23, 2012 4:54 AM<br><b>To:</b> Des Callaghan; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] GPX, OS Grid References and Google Earth<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hello Des<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I´m also using GPSmap62<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>This GPS gives me trouble downloading and uploading via QGIS...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>So this is how I do:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Use Explorer to find your Garmin Unit<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Click on <b>GPX<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Find the GPX file <b>Waypoints_dd_mm_yy.gpx<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Copy the file to your disk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>From QGIS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Click on <b>Plugin>GPS>GPS Tool<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Choose <b>Load GPX file</b></span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Your waypoints will be loaded in the mapwindow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For adding extra coloums, you have to save the GPX as a Shapefile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>RightClick on the file in Layers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Change CRS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>RightClick on the waypoint-layer and remove<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Add Vectorlayer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Open Attribut table<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Toggel Editing Mode (Ctrl E)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>New Column (Ctrl W)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=usrnormaltext><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Regards</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=usrnormaltext><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Lene Fischer</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=usrnormaltext><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Ass. Professor</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=usrnormaltext><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Danish Center for Forest, Landscape and Planning</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=usrnormaltext><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>University of Copenhagen</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=usrnormaltext><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Nødebovej 77A</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=usrnormaltext><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>DK- 3480 Fredensborg</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><span class=usrnormaltext>Phone: 0045 40115084</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=usrnormaltext><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Mail: </span></span><span class=usrnormaltext><u><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'><a href="mailto:LFI@LIFE.KU.DK">LFI@LIFE.KU.DK</a></span></u></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br><span class=usrnormaltext>Skype: lene.fischer.dk</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><br>>>> "Des Callaghan" <<a href="mailto:des.callaghan@ecostudy.co.uk">des.callaghan@ecostudy.co.uk</a>> 22-04-2012 12:22 >>><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Hello Forum,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I’ve just began to use QGIS, which looks like a wonderful piece of software. I wonder if anyone can help me with a query. I have a hand-held Garmin GPSMAP 62s GPS with which I collect waypoints while out in the field, stored in a *.gpx file. Within QGIS I wish to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Import the gpx file and have the waypoints plotted as points within the BNG projection (EPSG:27700), each labelled according to their individual ‘wpt’ tag held within the gpx file.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Create a new column within the table created from the gpx file and populate this with the OS Grid Reference for each waypoint (e.g. SD4568798345). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Add a Google Earth layer as background<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Any help with achieving this would be very much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Des<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>