Send to GPS for Linux

[+Shilo]

Does anyone know of a Linux program that will work for the Send to GPS feature?

 

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 with Firefox.

[+mpilchfamily]

Don't you need to have the correct drivers from the manufacture installed to use the Send to GPS feature. So i think it will depend on which GPSr you have and if the manufacture has support for Unbuntu.

Edited January 29, 2011 by mpilchfamily

[+Shilo]

Don't you need to have the correct drivers from the manufacture installed to use the Send to GPS feature. So i think it will depend on which GPSr you have and if the manufacture has support for Unbuntu.

 

That would be Garmin and they don't. Neither do the other 2 GPS manufactures on the list. I just hate flipping over to my WIN partition if a new cache comes out. I can type it in manually quicker, so that is what I'll continue to do.

 

I was hoping maybe someone in the Linux community wrote something to do this.

[+dfx]

there's something here that promises to do what you want: http://www.andreas-d.../doku.php/start

haven't tried it myself though. Personally I prefer to click the "GPX file" button and just store the file on the Garmin's mass storage.

Edited January 30, 2011 by dfx

[+pppingme]

That would be Garmin and they don't. Neither do the other 2 GPS manufactures on the list. I just hate flipping over to my WIN partition if a new cache comes out. I can type it in manually quicker, so that is what I'll continue to do.

 

I was hoping maybe someone in the Linux community wrote something to do this.

There's really nothing to write. When you choose send to gps, GC sends a modified .gpx and the applet just figures out where to save it. The only big difference between the special .gpx and downloading a real .gpx off the cache page is that the special one has 10 logs, the regular one has 20 logs.

 

The only real thing the send to gps applet does is dummy proof the whole thing.

 

If you are running an older gps that doesn't use .gpx files directly, look at gpsbabel, with that, you could pick all the .gpx files you want, run gpsbabel, and it will convert the .gpx (or .loc) to almost every known format out there, if you're familiar with GSAK, its actually the glue that makes GSAK work. GPSBable will run on all common platforms (windows, all linux variants, bsd, os-x, etc.).

[robertlipe]

To Potato Finder's point, it's been possible to do this since long before plugins were the rage. http://www.gpsbabel.org/tips/browser.html

 

That said, pocket queries and a direct download are more likely to be more satisfying.

[+pppingme]

http://www.gpsbabel.org/tips/browser.html

Sweet, even more direct than I was thinking. I don't know if I would have even thought about that, but nice and simple.

[robertlipe]

As a UNIX guy, I'm all about hooking up tools. That the document references Mozilla 1.3 gives some idea how old that page is. I remember doing it with my Magellan 330 before GPX files were even available from the site, though PQs took away that novelty.