I have DeLorme topo maps on my laptop (Windows) and a GPS on my cell phone (Blackberry 9300). Both applications import and export .gpx files …
BUT …
The .gpx files they generate are in sightly different formats and will not transfer from one to another. (Specifically, the cell phone generates + and - latitude/longitude designations while the Delorme software needs N/S and E/W designations)
I want to use the cell phone to gather waypoint and photo location data and transfer it to the DeLorme topo maps for permanent record, routing and other mapping activities. To do that, I need to convert the cell phone .gpx file to a format the DeLorme software will read. In setting it up, i have manually entered the cell phone info into DeLorme topo but as the project grows, this manual conversion is too time consuming.
The .gpx files are readily visible when I connect the cell phone to my desktop Linux machine via USB but I cannot open or convert them.
gpsbabel seems like it would do the trick but it is complicated to use from the command line (190 pages of documentation). Is there a simpler application or a GUI interface for gpsbabel?
I need to edit them and then save them for export. Organizing this might be tricky since they all have the same .gpx suffix but different content format.
It seems that GPS, Geocasching and personal mapping is set to become a hot topic since most smart phones have a GPS device and maps now.
I am always amazed at the excellent help I get at this forum! Thank you so much.
Moving data from GPS data acquisition devices to Map applications is getting a lot of attention among the people I talk to. Cameras (and who knows what other devices) are coming with GPS capability. People want to map where they took a picture but it isn’t always that easy to do.
How do I install this package? It seems like you gave me instructions once before but I can’t seem to find them now. Don’t I begin by adding the Malcolmlewis repository in Yast?
Again, Thank You.
Cordially,
TwoHoot
edit- Will the fact that I am running openSUSE 12.2 instead of 12.3 make any difference?
When I started to download the file, apper gave me the option of installing it. I let apper do it. It worked fine. The distinctions between zypper and apper are unclear in my mind but I have always installed from either Yast or zypper and let apper manage automatic updates. That is for another (probably existing) thread.
GPSBabel is certainly a descriptive name for this software. I did not realize how many different formats there are for storing GPS, mapping and tracking data - What a tangled can of worms! It is truly babble. Anyone who is even halfway serious about mapping from different data sources will need these conversions.
In my case, I tried some of the most general input and output formats first. GPX XML will read the .gpx files generated by the Bladkberry app “GPS Find” so I used GPX XML for input. (There are some quirks with Blackberry file system and GPS Find app that don’t have anything to do with openSUSE or GPSBabel that I won’t go into here)
To my surprise, the DeLorme GPL format did not work for output. So I started converting to different DeLorme formats until I found that “Delorme XMap/SAHH 2006 Native.TXT” will import waypoint names and coordinates into DeLorme Topo North America 9.0.
This may not be the most efficient or elegant way to do this but I am now able to actually do what I said I wanted to do in the first post of this thread. I will be happy to share my very limited experience with anyone who is having trouble with using mapping datapoints from various sources.
Thank you malcolmlewis! You are absolutely amazing.
Hi
Glad to have helped out, just check your repositories and if my testing one is enabled, disable it, just in case I create something that updates your system…
I will clean it up and submit as an update to the Application:Geo development repository as well.
It has always seemed to me that the most likely way for openSUSE system security to be compromised is via a rogue or compromised repository. I have used 4 non-openSUSE repositories (including yours). I use them for specific purpose one time and disable them. They are easy to enable again if need be and there is no reason to take chances.
The 5 enabled repositories on my computer are:
openSUSE 12.2-1.6
openSUSE 12.2-OSS
openSUSE 12.2-non-OSS
openSUSE 12.2-update
openSUSE 12.2-update-non-OSS
On Thu 11 Apr 2013 02:46:03 AM CDT, TwoHoot wrote:
It has always seemed to me that the most likely way for openSUSE system
security to be compromised is via a rogue or compromised repository. I
have used 4 non-openSUSE repositories (including yours). I use them for
specific purpose one time and disable them. They are easy to enable
again if need be and there is no reason to take chances.
The 5 enabled repositories on my computer are:
openSUSE 12.2-1.6
openSUSE 12.2-OSS
openSUSE 12.2-non-OSS
openSUSE 12.2-update
openSUSE 12.2-update-non-OSS
Are those safe? Is that all that is necessary?
Again, Thank you.
Cordially,
TwoHoot
Hi
Yes, the very standard ones, the first one is the dvd from your
install, unless you keep the dvd in the system, I would disable that…
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