I just played a little bit with APRS igate on Linux. There are some igate software available on Linux but the most supported package (javAPRESSrvr) is not available today because of an error on Yahoogroups where the files are hosted.
Therefore I installed xastir from Sourceforge and connected the the local running instance with the APRS-IS network. Now DM1AS is visible on FINDU.
Nice side effect on this, the server generates an Google Maps page every 5 minutes with APRS stations around my home. Maybe tomorrow I connect my radio to the igate and there will be more local stations available.
I love PetersBikemap.net page. Using this service to plan all my bike tours. Unfortunately my Garmin (GPSmap 60) does not understand the gpx file from Bikemap export. I wrote this little script to modify and split the route into smaller routes. GPSmap 60 only handle 250 points per route. Therefore the script splits the route into smaller pieces, renames the note names into “rtept” resp. “rte” and uploads the route via USB to the connected garmin.
What you need to run this script are gpsbabel and the unix commands: sed, split,cut and head .
Here it is, as usually no guarantee.
#!/bin/bash
filename=$1
gpsbabel -i gpx -f ${filename} -o csv -F out.csv
split -l 200 out.csv splits
rm out.csv
for i in `ls splits*`
do
gpsbabel -i csv -f ${i} -o gpx -F ${i}.gpx
sed 's/wpt/rtept/' ${i}.gpx > out
rm ${i}.gpx
mv out ${i}.gpx
rm ${i}
linenumber=`wc -l ${i}.gpx | cut -d " " -f 1`
let linenumber-=1
sed -n 10,${linenumber}p ${i}.gpx >a.gpx
rm ${i}.gpx
cat ${filename} | head -n 9 >${i}.gpx
echo "<rte>" >>${i}.gpx
cat a.gpx >>${i}.gpx
echo "</rte>" >>${i}.gpx
echo "</gpx>" >>${i}.gpx
rm a.gpx
sudo gpsbabel -r -i gpx -f ${i}.gpx -o garmin -F usb:0
rm ${i}.gpx
done
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)
ItoWorld produced an impressing Video on OpenStreetMap mapping. Its absolutely impressing how fast a community can develop something like OpenStreetMap. Crowdsourcing is not only about shifting the work towards a community. Its more about how a community can change the world. Meanwhile countries like USA or the Netherlands are disclosing their maps for OpenStreetMap. Take a look at the video and you will understand why OSM will change the world.
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:
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:
