Garmin and Linux?

[Mouse]

Asking this on behalf of a friend - does anyone know of any useful applications that allow you to (at least partially) use a Garmin GPS with Linux?

I assume that he won't be able to access the City Select maps, but what about waypoint and track transfer? Can anyone recommend anything?

I think he'd be able to put up with booting into windows once in a while to transfer maps to the unit.

Any advice appreciated

 

[Kropotkin]

The problem is with access to the USB ports. He could try three things:

Wine - See if Mapsource will work with Wine. See http://www.winehq.org/

VMWare, or another emulator / VM host. Downside is the VMWare is expensive

Dual boot. I do this for other reasons (to do my Dutch tax), but as a last resort, it's doable.

 

[Mouse]

Actually USB won't be a problem in this particular case as the model in question is a Streetpilot 3 which only has a serial port.

I think he's really after native linux software, but I agree that MapSource is almost certainly the best package to use. Thanks for the suggestions

 

[unhinged]

Can't recommend them but these are part of the debian distribution:

http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/

http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/wGPSMan_13.html

http://gpstrans.sourceforge.net/

 

[Kropotkin]

Here's a good place to start looking:

http://www.ibiblio.org/fplan/Aviation-HOWTO/Aviation-HOWTO-8.html

And Google turned up a fair few results:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ga...illa-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


It actually looks like there may be some software for uploading stuff to the Garmin unit. But if you want to create routes and stuff, I think you're stuck with Garmin.

 

[Mouse]

Cheers guys, will pass all that along

 

[TheJoker]

Glad to see we're not alone

Runs Debian on my servers, Gentoo on my AMD64 workstation, and Kubuntu on my laptop and on my girlfriends machine. I've got an old dedicated WindowsXP box with a KVM switch - but it's mainly turned off, and the laptop dual boots into WinXP