keverets ([info]keverets) wrote,
@ 2007-05-02 19:56:00
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Entry tags:bike, gps, linux, maps

Garmin Forerunner 301

I've got a Garmin Forerunner 301 that I use for running/biking/car trips. It sometimes takes a long time to pick up a signal which is kind of annoying, but otherwise seems to be a nice little unit with built-in heart-rate monitoring and the like. I wanted to use it on Linux as I don't use Windows. A quick search revealed this entry which gives a couple of command lines to grab data off the GPS. After a quick apt-get install, I tried them and they seem to work. The first just gives a long series of coordinates. The second gives a .kml file which I was able to import into Google Earth (though that's extremely slow on my hardware, so not very useful to me).


gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpsdrive -F tracks.gps

gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o kml,points=0,line_color=ff0000ff -F waypoints.kml

I'd really like to put some data into Open Street Map. It would be a fun project for the summer to bike around the neighbourhood and fill out their data.




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Testimony: gpsbabel works with Garmin Forerunner 205
(Anonymous)
2007-09-17 01:44 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the instructions above. I just thought I'd mention that they work perfectly well with the Garmin Forerunner 205 too.

Thanks!
:-Dustin Kirkland

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