OCM For Linux now has GPS Babel Support

[+Maddy-OCM]

As of 0.14, OCM now has GPSBabel support. There's auto configuration for eTrex/GPSMap series GPSs and GPX ones like Oregon/Dakota

 

Are there any non-Garmin Linux users out there? At the moment, any other device needs to be configured with the right GPSBabel format under the "Other GPS" section, but

I'd like to provide more auto configuration options. If you use GPS Babel, can you tell me what your usual options are?

 

You'll need to install GPSBabel for non-GPX devices. In Ubuntu, you can do this by typing "sudo apt-get-install gpsbabel" in a terminal window.

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Version 0.14

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- Add integration with GPS Babel for full GPS support. This requires

GPS Babel to be installed

- Implement GPS menu

- Fixed bug where some coordinates has a small error

- Recently opened GPX/Databases now show up in the recent file list

- Preliminary support for registering GPX and OCM files. You will need to call

update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime to complete the registration

- Add "Available" option to the quick filter list

- Fix issue where OCM would crash on opening a GPX on startup

- Grey out the cache info area if no cache selected

- Update icon set after discussion with Groundspeak

- Clicking on links in the description pane now opens them in a seperate window

- Add Preferences dialogs to alter settings after initial setup

- Fixup menu items names, add keyboard shortcuts

- Fix right-click and delete in cache list

- Move Reset Center to Home to the Map menu

- Refresh single cache on log found/mark unfound to improve performance

 

Version 0.13

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- Major changes to map:

- Replace Yahoo maps with Google maps

- Add popup bubbles to display geocache/waypoint info when clicked

- Introduce new "Map" menu

- Add new "show nearby caches" feature to map, which displays the 50 nearest caches

(that match current filter criteria) on the map. Users can use the info bubble of the

nearby cache to select it

- Add ability to pan to currently selected cache or predefined home point from map menu

 

- Only enable hint area if it has content

- Reduce font size of description and log areas

- Fix description area so that background images don't make text unreadable

- When filters change, keep currently selected cache visible in cache list pane

- Replace seperate map area status bar with a progress bar on the main status bar

- Adjust icon sizes

- Add parking, trailhead, and final icons

 

 

Version 0.12

- Fix issue with Lost and Found Event caches

- Fix slow performance on GPX import

- Add support to delete caches from database

- Add splash screen

- Add ability to filter on cache type, container, difficulty, terrain,

and placed by via "Additonal Filters" in View menu

- Fix database update issue causing missing updates

- Fix lost actions while Map loading

- Fix cancelling import

- Fix cancelling export

- Improve import/export dialogs

- Fix wrong icon for event caches on map

- Center map on home coordinates on startup

- Fix display bug with cache names that start with a number and are archived

- Rerrange hint and travelbug display, hints now wordwrap

 

 

Version 0.11

 

- Delay on filtering when typing

- Add Yahoo Maps (street, sattelite, and hybrid maps) support

- Fix crash on opening read-only GPX

- Fix status label in cache info pane so that it only takes up one line

- Add licence file

- Update icons to be easier to see

[robertlipe]

It's trivial, but no space between the S and the B, please.

[+Maddy-OCM]

It's trivial, but no space between the S and the B, please.

 

Duly noted, I'll make sure to write it out as GPSBabel

[+Maddy-OCM]

It's trivial, but no space between the S and the B, please.

 

Duly noted, I'll make sure to write it out as GPSBabel

 

N.B. Instead of using my wife's account (maddy82), I've created my own ocm_ott

[+jjmcwill]

I'm a Linux user.

 

I have a Lowrance iFinder H2O and now a Lowrance Endura Out & Back.

 

The older one requires the use of GPSBabel, but Out&Back can load .loc and .gpx files directly.

 

I'm not familiar with your OCM program.

 

Jeff

[ocm_ott]

I'm a Linux user.

 

I have a Lowrance iFinder H2O and now a Lowrance Endura Out & Back.

 

The older one requires the use of GPSBabel, but Out&Back can load .loc and .gpx files directly.

 

I'm not familiar with your OCM program.

 

Jeff

 

The OCM project is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencachemanage/. I'm trying to give us Linux users something like GSAK, still early in it's development.

 

Q: For the older GPX, is there a default location for .usr files?

[+jjmcwill]

I'm a Linux user.

 

I have a Lowrance iFinder H2O and now a Lowrance Endura Out & Back.

 

The older one requires the use of GPSBabel, but Out&Back can load .loc and .gpx files directly.

 

I'm not familiar with your OCM program.

 

Jeff

 

The OCM project is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencachemanage/. I'm trying to give us Linux users something like GSAK, still early in it's development.

 

Q: For the older GPX, is there a default location for .usr files?

 

For the iFinder H2O, the .usr files sit in the root folder of the memory card.