GPSMan
GPSMan (GPS Manager) is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes possible the preparation, inspection, and edition of GPS data in a friendly environment. It supports communication with both Garmin, Lowrance, and Magellan receivers, and real-time support for any receiver using NMEA-0183. It can also be used in command-line mode.
| Tags | Scientific/Engineering |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | Tcl |
Recent releases
- 14 Jun 2007 11:35
Release Notes: This release adds a new Least Squares fit method for geo-referencing, enhanced support for GPX files, a "geopicts" command to geo-reference files (e.g., for picture files from a digital camera), other enhancements, and bugfixes.
- 09 May 2006 03:23
Release Notes: Among other things, this release added support for the Garmin USB protocol on Linux kernels using the garmin_gps kernel driver.
- 20 Mar 2003 08:28
Release Notes: The EasyGPS export format can now be imported. Explicit support for GPSMap 196 was added. Two bugs were corrected: one concerning RT transfer to Garmin, and the other in the French support.
- 10 Mar 2003 06:02
Release Notes: New features include support for Magellan receivers, perspective elevation graphs and enhanced side-view graphs of routes and tracks, a real-time logging travel/navigation interface (Garmin), Indonesian language support, new projections, new data and graphic file formats, and better Garmin communication support.
- 20 Jul 2001 06:18
Release Notes: Elevation graphs for routes and tracks, enhanced editing of routes on map, and saving state, user defined projections and datums. New projections also available.
Recent comments
Ugly and non-functional
I tried it. A settings window appeared and asked
whether I had a lowrance, magellan or garmin GPS.
As I have something else, I didn't know what to
answer. There is another settings window to specify
use of the NMEA protocol. Since the NMEA
protocol is basically a universal standard among
GPS units, it should be a choice in that initial
question.
I was able to specify NMEA protocol in the settings
later but I could not get it to communicate with my
gps unit. I don't know whether it supports gpsd.
Some different errors appeared, including what
looked like coding errors, and a dialog box
appeared which could not be removed.
contact the author
I am trying to contact the author of GPSman,
Miguel, but i get an error from the server at the
university where he should be based.
Any explanation?
Thanks.
Paolo Cavallini
Re: this is one of those truly unique
> little programs that pops up a little
> window & refuses to run if you are
> logged in as root or creates a screenful
> of errors complaining about not being
> able to do anything when logged in as an
> ordinary user.
>
>
This behaviour is obviously for security reasons.
But it can be easily avoided: edit the file main.tcl and replace the line
if { $UNIX && $env(USER) == "root" } {
by
if { 0 } {
Best regards,
Miguel Filgueiras
Can't download update
Fine program, but the download page gets you to an update package supposed to be at www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/g....
It seems to fix quite a lot of nasty bugs (why not 6.0.2?), but the file is "404 Not Found" :(((
this is one of those truly unique
little programs that pops up a little window & refuses to run if you are logged in as root or creates a screenful of errors complaining about not being able to do anything when logged in as an ordinary user.
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