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Hm, since there's an easy way to add local templates (*), what about having a
look at this one again?
I found some descriptions of Garmin's nuvi and zumo devices, and the GPX
POIloader would accept, and merged that with some code by Kevin Bulgrien. The
result are two templates "nuvi" and "nuvi2".
Any volunteers who would try them?
"nuvi" is the simpler one, "nuvi2" tries to be a bit more sophisticated, but
both they are *very experimental*. Please don't break your device by accident -
yes, the odds are non-zero... place the POI file on the SD card if possible.
If you cannot use POIloader, "gpsbabel -igpx -ogarmin_gpi" should do (it will
complain about the categories though). (I'll add a filter template later.)
(*) Find cookies.yaml, change to the folder it's in, create a folder
"templates", drop "nuvi.tm" in there.
Original comment by Steve8x8
on 16 Sep 2013 at 1:58
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Apparently my Nuvi 255T is at the low end of their road nav range - it doesn't
even honour multiple StreetAddress lines (as suggested by other sites).
After looking deeper into the GPX_by_Cache_Types GSAK macro, and gpsbabel
documentation, and playing a lot with my device (which is sloooow...), there's
another patchset waiting in my private web space.
Since some fields require changes to output.rb, I won't post it here now... but
there's progress.
Perhaps it's too late for 3.18.0 to include the template, but the output.rb
changes might still fit in? Stay tuned!
Original comment by Steve8x8
on 17 Sep 2013 at 7:10
Having tested the latest changes (incorporated into 3.18.0), I'm rather sure
that gpsbabel doesn't know about radial distance alerts (only on-road ones).
From what I've read, for such a behaviour the "TourGuide" feature would be
required - which is in Garmin's POIloader, and a separate tool available for
Mac users only.
I'd be happy to learn some details: Can gpx-nuvi output, by just remaning it to
xyz.TourGuide.gpx, then passing it through POIloader, be used for proximity
alerts? Are 200 meters reasonable, would 1 km or half a mile cause permament
alerts in well-populated areas?
Original comment by Steve8x8
on 24 Sep 2013 at 10:16
Anyone knows how to contact Simon Slavin, the author of Garmin Mac Tools (back
in 2007)?
Although gpsbabel does a nice job converting gpx-nuvi to poi-nuvi, I somewhat
miss the radial alert functionality that could (somehow) be achieved with
POIloader.
Setting status to "InfoNeeded".
Original comment by Steve8x8
on 21 Oct 2013 at 10:52
Due to an accident that made part of my SD card unreadable, I had to use my
Nuvi for caching - and it turned out that
- the "name" line (which is set in large letters) is too long to be shown
completely
- the text part is lacking the coordinates - so even if your main GPSr is only
"empty" but otherwise operational there's no easy way to transfer coordinates
- there's no information about cache size in the selection menu
Back home, I sat down and changed the gpx-nuvi template a bit.
- Cache type is now only two chars
- ".5" in D and T is replaced by a ', ".0" becomes a blank
Even if I'm the only one who uses this template (am I?) this seems to be worth
a patch.
Original comment by Steve8x8
on 24 Nov 2013 at 8:04
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One might still argue that a period indicating ".0" and a superscript-5
indicating ".5" might be more beautiful, but for my purposes the current
representation is more than enough. If you have some better ideas don't
hesitate to tell me, I'll re-open this issue on request. (Don't tell me about
spoiler images etc. though.)
Closing for now.
Original comment by Steve8x8
on 28 Dec 2013 at 10:19
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Steve8x8
on 19 Apr 2013 at 10:36