April 9th, 2009 Ansi
Moin
Together with a friend of mine we are planning to take the opportunity and make a nice friday-easter-geocaching-event (fege). We are planning to make 3 or maybe 4 multicaches and several single caches on the road. Here are the stages for the multis (must do)
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and here are all stages from the multi and a lot of singles arround Bad Cannstatt.
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August 19th, 2008 Ansi
This post if more for myself then for others because you can find this information on many places. I bought a Garmin GPS Map 60 some time ago. It works great with Linux and the GPSBabel software. In order to transfer the loc files from the Geocaching.com side you can use this script:
#!/bin/bash
rm a.csv
rm a.kml
rm a.gpx
for i in *.loc
do
gpsbabel -i geo -f $i -o csv,prefer_shortnames -F $i.csv
cat $i.csv >> a.csv
rm $i.csv
done
gpsbabel -i csv -f a.csv -o kml -F a.kml
gpsbabel -i csv -f a.csv -o gpx -F a.gpx
sudo gpsbabel -i gpx -f a.gpx -o garmin -F usb:0
sudo gpsbabel -i garmin,power_off -f usb:0
This script converts all the *.loc files in one folder into one GPX and one KML file. the KML file can be placed on a webserver and then fiewed with google maps or via google earth. Here are some usefull commands:
Upload route:
sudo gpsbabel -r -i garmin -f usb:0 -o kml -F u.kml
Tracks downloaden from Garmin:
sudo gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f usb:0 -o gpx -F tracks.gpx
Switch the Garmin off:sudo gpsbabel -i garmin,power_off -f usb:0
Best Webpage I found for creating routes for bike tours is Marengo
And now have fun.
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