Comments on: GPS: from hardware to data http://www.melaneum.com/blog/geolocation/gps-tracks from and to 372433 143758 48 N Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:36:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Melaneum http://www.melaneum.com/blog/geolocation/gps-tracks#comment-12 Melaneum Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:34:04 +0000 http://www.melaneum.com/blog/geolocation/gps-tracks/#comment-12 I wasn't successful using directly gpsbabel with the BT-Q1200: gpsbabel -t -w -i mtk -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F output.gpx mtk_logger: This is not a MTK based GPS ! (or is it turned off ?) mtkbabel works well after installing package libdevice-serialport-perl. According to the website, it is mostly based on the BT747 project. However I found it much slower than BT747 do download the data. I wasn’t successful using directly gpsbabel with the BT-Q1200:
gpsbabel -t -w -i mtk -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F output.gpx
mtk_logger: This is not a MTK based GPS ! (or is it turned off ?)

mtkbabel works well after installing package libdevice-serialport-perl. According to the website, it is mostly based on the BT747 project. However I found it much slower than BT747 do download the data.

]]> By: MarkX http://www.melaneum.com/blog/geolocation/gps-tracks#comment-11 MarkX Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:53:45 +0000 http://www.melaneum.com/blog/geolocation/gps-tracks/#comment-11 gpsbabel 1.3.5-beta20080305 downloads directly from a Qstarz BT-Q1000P. Also have a look at mtkbabel at http://www.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/appunti/hardware/gps_logger_i_blue_747 which mostly works very well. gpsbabel 1.3.5-beta20080305 downloads directly from a Qstarz BT-Q1000P. Also have a look at mtkbabel at http://www.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/doc/appunti/hardware/gps_logger_i_blue_747 which mostly works very well.

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