Last time I tried, a few years back, Wine was not yet up to handling Garmin's proprietary topo map software. It would install, and sometimes even work, so long as I didn't try to connect a GPS to it. (The ones I have are all also Garmins -- old ones wanting a serial port.) I made a huge effort, for most of a year, with a lot of help from high-powered Alpha Plus Technoids on several lists, this one not least among them. But I only ever got one GPS to talk to the software one time, and never figured out how .... What I'm trying to do (and did, under M$, years ago) is go locate game trails, lunch rocks, good stands, etc., on a hunting ground; then come home and include all that info into a good map, to scale, of the hunting ground. Another approach would be to install, say, XP onto a virtual machine, and do the work there. That did work, for a while, after a sufficiently sophisticated technoid friend installed an emulation, or sandbox, or whatever it was. But when I once bollixed up the virtual machine, my cyber-savvy didn't suffice to restore it. And yes, I know there are Linux-native suites nowadays; and Garmin is reported to've put its source code into the public domain. Alas!, those suites all seem to require advanced degrees in CS, cartography, or fields too fierce to mention. <sigh> Are we there yet? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
You probably searched the Wine application database (https://appdb.winehq.org/) to find out that there hasn't been much progress recently with Garmin applications (I tried to install BaseCamp and MapSource into wine, neither with much success). But did you have a look at QLandkarteGT? It is a native Linux application and it is not rocket science to use. You can load waypoints and tracks from a Garmin device to display them on a map, if it is that what you want to accomplish. There are a lot of free maps available, it is described in the wiki how to load them into QLandkarte. Older Garmin serial devices seem to be supported, but I could not try that because I only have an USB device (Dakota 20). HTH Am 06.07.2015 um 18:29 schrieb Beartooth:> Last time I tried, a few years back, Wine was not yet up to > handling Garmin's proprietary topo map software. It would install, and > sometimes even work, so long as I didn't try to connect a GPS to it. (The > ones I have are all also Garmins -- old ones wanting a serial port.) > > I made a huge effort, for most of a year, with a lot of help from > high-powered Alpha Plus Technoids on several lists, this one not least > among them. But I only ever got one GPS to talk to the software one time, > and never figured out how .... > > What I'm trying to do (and did, under M$, years ago) is go locate > game trails, lunch rocks, good stands, etc., on a hunting ground; then > come home and include all that info into a good map, to scale, of the > hunting ground. > > Another approach would be to install, say, XP onto a virtual > machine, and do the work there. That did work, for a while, after a > sufficiently sophisticated technoid friend installed an emulation, or > sandbox, or whatever it was. But when I once bollixed up the virtual > machine, my cyber-savvy didn't suffice to restore it. > > And yes, I know there are Linux-native suites nowadays; and > Garmin is reported to've put its source code into the public domain. > Alas!, those suites all seem to require advanced degrees in CS, > cartography, or fields too fierce to mention. <sigh> > > Are we there yet? >-- Klaus-Peter Schrage Fridtjof-Nansen-Str. 21 D-38108 Braunschweig Tel.: +49 531 355178 Fax: +49 531 3557473 Mobil: +49 171 1940 497
On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:04:55 +0200, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:> You probably searched the Wine application database > (https://appdb.winehq.org/) to find out that there hasn't been much > progress recently with Garmin applications (I tried to install BaseCamp > and MapSource into wine, neither with much success).I tried both MapSource and a couple of its more specific sub- suites, one for roads & towns, and one for hunting/hiking/Appalachian Trail, etc. Those were the ones I eventually did get to run, but not to talk to any Garmin GPS that I had.> But did you have a look at QLandkarteGT? It is a native Linux > application and it is not rocket science to use. You can load waypoints > and tracks from a Garmin device to display them on a map, if it is that > what you want to accomplish. There are a lot of free maps available, it > is described in the wiki how to load them into QLandkarte.I think that's one I did try. It was a lot more user-friendly than any other I found, and I was even getting info and explanations from the chief developer, for a while. Then my questions got so elementary that he suspected me (he said) of trolling. I assured him both I and my questions were real -- but I also got out of his hair, and let that dog lie. This was a few years ago. I'll look again. A friend on a private list reports he's "had excellent luck with iGage software running under Wine." Another on the same list says "Let me look into this. Given my line of work, this is right up my alley." Stay tuned.> Older Garmin serial devices seem to be supported, but I could not try > that because I only have an USB device (Dakota 20).I have an Etrex and a pair of Rinos, but I'm thinking of getting a Montana, primarily for the color display and the USB plug. (I tried every kind of serial to USB adapter I could get, without success.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:04:55 +0200, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: [....]> But did you have a look at QLandkarteGT? It is a native Linux > application and it is not rocket science to use. You can load waypoints > and tracks from a Garmin device to display them on a map, if it is that > what you want to accomplish. There are a lot of free maps available, it > is described in the wiki how to load them into QLandkarte.>> Are we there yet?` We progress, anyway : [root at localhost btth]# dnf install qlandkartegt Last metadata expiration check performed 0:00:45 ago on Tue Jul 7 15:42:19 2015. Dependencies resolved. ================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size =================================================================Installing: CharLS x86_64 1.0-8.fc22 fedora 66 k armadillo x86_64 4.650.2-1.fc22 fedora 25 k arpack x86_64 3.1.5-1.fc22 fedora 108 k freexl x86_64 1.0.1-1.fc22 fedora 36 k garmindev x86_64 0.3.4-9.fc22 fedora 122 k gdal-libs x86_64 1.11.2-3.fc22 fedora 4.4 M geos x86_64 3.4.2-3.fc22 fedora 532 k gpsbabel x86_64 1.5.2-1.fc22 fedora 820 k libdap x86_64 3.13.1-3.fc22 fedora 441 k libgeotiff x86_64 1.4.0-3.fc22 fedora 715 k libgta x86_64 1.0.7-1.fc22 fedora 37 k libspatialite x86_64 4.2.0-3.fc22 fedora 2.1 M netcdf x86_64 4.3.3.1-1.fc22 fedora 687 k ogdi x86_64 3.2.0-0.23.beta2.fc22 fedora 251 k proj-epsg x86_64 4.8.0-7.fc22 fedora 63 k qlandkartegt x86_64 1.8.1-2.fc22 fedora 3.9 M Transaction Summary =================================================================Install 16 Packages Total download size: 14 M Installed size: 50 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Keep staying tuned! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.