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Google Earth - A GPS Waypoint Manager
Authored by: syzygies on Jan 25, '06 03:10:20PM

Aha! GPSBabel not only understands .kml files, but will talk directly to my serial-to-usb converter and Garmin GPS device. I've recovered my old waypoints, they all show up in Google Earth where I can edit them and save as a new .kml file.

GPSBabel is a command-line tool (there is apparently a GUI somewhere, but I couldn't find it). I used fink to install expat, then executed make mac-usbfree in the GPSBabel source directory, then figured out a command line to talk to my Garmin. Here the hard part was figuring out my device name. A sample line for reading from my Garmin was for me:

gpsbabel -i garmin -f /dev/cu.KeySerial1 -o kml -F Waypoints.kml

It will be easy to wrap such lines in tiny AppleScript applications, to get one-click uploads to the Garmin after saving from Google Earth to a canonical location.



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