GPS-Earth V.0.02

A graphical frontend for GPS-receivers.

Actually supported:
Garmin etrex and others based on GARMIN protocoll.
Languages: X11-Basic (UNIX/LINUX)

All features are really experimental at the moment. 

GPS-Earth comes with a collection of independant utility programs, which do not use graphics, and therfore can be used is shell scripts or even on WINDOWS systems (With the WINDOWS Version of X11-Basic).

Features:

1. GPS-Earth:
   • Track, Waypoint, Almanac, Routes Up and Download
   • etrex screengrabbing
   • full visualization of waypoints and tracks
   • also supports ASCII-Format waypoint and track lists
   • realtime position, altitude, velocity, date and time readings and logging
   • full remote control of the etrex device
   • Track and waypointlist editing
   • Vector Maps display and editing
2. GPS-Time:
   • Read the high precision time from the GPS and set UNIX system clock according to this.
3. GPS-Screen:
   • Grab a screen image from the GPS device and save it as *.png.
4. GPS-Simulator:
   • Simulate a GPS device .

Screenshots

• Intro
• Europe area view
• Desk with waypoints
• Track selector
• Transfer Menu
• GPS-Earth and xfig maps
• GPS-Earth with City Waypoints
• GPS-Earth with City Waypoints and basemap
• GPS-Earth with City Waypoints and basemap of Island
• GPS-Earth with Waypoints and some streets in Hamburg
• collection of Etrex (yellow) screenshots
• collection of Etrex-Venture screenshots

Utilities

• gps-time.bas reads the date and time from the GPS receiver and sets the computers system time (if run with root privileges.)
• gps-simulator.bas simulates a GARMIN GPS device on the serial line. This is useful do analyze software communication for testing.
• Sample Almanac (2002) (bin)

waypoint collection

• Some waypoints in the Alpes of Switzerland (ASCII)
• D-Staedte.wpt City Basemap Germany (bin, 1.65 MBytes) von www.opengeodb.de
• tanken-rasten.wpt Autobahn Tank- und Raststellen Germany (bin, 29 kBytes) von N O E G S.
• D-Bahnhoefe.wpt Bahnhoefe in Deutschland (bin, 100 kBytes) von G I S
• Autobahnausfahrten.wpt Autobahnausfarten in Deutschland (unvollstaendig) (bin, 75 kBytes) von www.schwarzwald-biketour.de
• U-Berlin.wpt U-Bahnhoefe in Berlin (bin, 22 kBytes) von www.schwarzwald-biketour.de
• island.wpt Waypoint collection for Island (bin, 49 kBytes) von G I S

track collection

• Europa coastlines for track upload (bin)
• Skiing in Saas Fee (Switzerland) (ASCII)
• Nice bike tour starting and ending in Finkenwerder (Hamburg,D) (ASCII)

vector maps

• D-inseln.zip Deutsche Binnengewaesser, Kueste und Inseln + Daenische Inseln (317 kBytes, bin) (from G S H H S)
• world.zip World Map (1.2 MBytes, bin) (from G S H H S)
• island.zip Map of Island (129 kBytes, bin) (from G S H H S)
• D-plz.zip Map of Postleitzahlen-Regionen in Germany (5.3 MBytes, bin) (from Mapbender at sourceforge.net )
• Grenze-D-DK.zip Deutsch-Daenische Grenze (1 kBytes, bin) (from Coastline Extractor)
• map.lst Basemap Deutschland (im Aufbau) (800 kBytes, ASCII) (from various (free) sources and my GPS-Tracklogs)

Dokumentation

• Description of the Vector-Map-ASCII representation

Installation:

$> xbasic garmin.bas

Links:

• Get actual Version of X11-Basic (>1.11-6 older versions will not work correctly)
• Specification of the GARMIN protocoll
• Garmin Hacking Project
• Garmin etrex Hacking Project
• Alles zum Thema GPS
• GPS Info Seite
• Extended Garmin users manual