<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>GRASS GIS: v.in.gpsbabel</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="grassdocs.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <img src="grass_logo.png" alt="GRASS logo"><hr align=center size=6 noshade> <h2>NAME</h2> <em><b>v.in.gpsbabel</b></em> - Import waypoints, routes, and tracks from a GPS receiver or GPS download file into a vector map. <h2>KEYWORDS</h2> vector, import, GPS <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> <b>v.in.gpsbabel</b><br> <b>v.in.gpsbabel help</b><br> <b>v.in.gpsbabel</b> [-<b>vwrtpk</b>] [<b>input</b>=<em>string</em>] [<b>output</b>=<em>string</em>] [<b>format</b>=<em>string</em>] [<b>proj</b>=<em>string</em>] [--<b>overwrite</b>] [--<b>verbose</b>] [--<b>quiet</b>] <h3>Flags:</h3> <DL> <DT><b>-v</b></DT> <DD>Verbose mode</DD> <DT><b>-w</b></DT> <DD>Import waypoints</DD> <DT><b>-r</b></DT> <DD>Import routes</DD> <DT><b>-t</b></DT> <DD>Import track</DD> <DT><b>-p</b></DT> <DD>Force vertices of track or route data as points</DD> <DT><b>-k</b></DT> <DD>Do not attempt projection transform from WGS84</DD> <DT><b>--overwrite</b></DT> <DD>Allow output files to overwrite existing files</DD> <DT><b>--verbose</b></DT> <DD>Verbose module output</DD> <DT><b>--quiet</b></DT> <DD>Quiet module output</DD> </DL> <h3>Parameters:</h3> <DL> <DT><b>input</b>=<em>string</em></DT> <DD>Device or file used to import data</DD> <DD>Default: <em>/dev/gps</em></DD> <DT><b>output</b>=<em>string</em></DT> <DD>Name for output vector map (omit for display to stdout)</DD> <DT><b>format</b>=<em>string</em></DT> <DD>Format of GPS input data (use gpsbabel supported formats)</DD> <DD>Default: <em>garmin</em></DD> <DT><b>proj</b>=<em>string</em></DT> <DD>Projection of input data (PROJ.4 style), if not set Lat/Lon WGS84 is assumed</DD> </DL> <H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> <EM>v.in.gpsbabel</EM> allows the user to import waypoint, route, and track data from a locally connected GPS receiver or a text file containing GPS data of many common formats. Translation is done via the <EM><A HREF="http://www.gpsbabel.org">gpsbabel</a></EM> program. <P> This software is not intended as a primary means of navigation. <H2>NOTES</H2> <em>v.in.gpsbabel</em> automatically reprojects data using the projection settings of the current location. The default input data projection is lat/lon WGS84. If your GPS outputs data using another projection or map datum, you may include the <EM><A HREF="http://proj.maptools.org">PROJ.4</a></EM> parameters defining your projection in the <b>proj</b> option and <em>v.in.gpsbabel</em> will reproject your data accordingly. Great care must be taken to get these parameters correct! The automatic transform may be skipped by using the <b>-k</b> flag in which case the data will be imported unprojected, as it appears in the <b>input</b>. <P> Route and Track data may be uploaded as a series of points by using the <B>-p</B> flag, otherwise they will be imported as lines. You can run <EM>v.in.gpsbabel</EM> multiple times and merge the line and point vectors with the <EM>v.patch</EM> command if you want, but take care when merging dissimilar attribute tables. <H2>EXAMPLES</H2> <h3>GPS device connected via USB adapter</h3> Import waypoints, tracks, routes from /dev/ttyUSB0 and save to a GRASS vector map: <div class="code"><pre> v.in.gpsbabel -w input=/dev/ttyUSB0 format=garmin output=waypoints v.in.gpsbabel -t input=/dev/ttyUSB0 format=garmin output=tracks v.in.gpsbabel -r input=/dev/ttyUSB0 format=garmin output=routes </pre></div> <h3>GPS device connected via serial adapter</h3> Import waypoint data from a Garmin GPS connected at /dev/ttyS0 and save to a GRASS vector map named <i>waypoints</i>: <div class="code"><pre> v.in.gpsbabel -w input=/dev/ttyS0 format=garmin output=waypoints </pre></div> <h3>Import track data from a GPX</h3> Import track data from a GPX text file and save to a GRASS vector map named <i>tracks</i>. <!-- (currently buggy) The gpxlogger program distributed with <a href="http://gpsd.berlios.de/">GPSd</a> >2.30 is a good program for creating these logs. --> <div class="code"><pre> v.in.gpsbabel -t input=gpslog.gpx format=gpx output=tracks </pre></div> <h3>Import route data from GPS connected at /dev/gps</h3> Import route data as a series of points from a Garmin GPS connected at /dev/gps and save to a GRASS vector map named <i>routePoints</i>: <div class="code"><pre> v.in.gpsbabel -r -p file=/dev/gps format=garmin output=routePoints </pre></div> <H2>SEE ALSO</H2> <EM><A HREF="db.execute.html">db.execute</A></EM><BR> <EM><A HREF="v.in.ascii.html">v.in.ascii</A></EM><BR> <EM><A HREF="v.in.garmin.html">v.in.garmin</A></EM><BR> <EM><A HREF="v.db.connect.html">v.db.connect</A></EM><BR> <EM><A HREF="v.patch.html">v.patch</A></EM><BR> <BR> <A HREF="http://www.gpsbabel.org">gpsbabel</a> from gpsbabel.org<BR> cs2cs from <A HREF="http://proj.maptools.org">PROJ.4</a><BR> <P> <H2>AUTHORS</H2> Claudio Porta and Lucio Davide Spano, students of Computer Science at University of Pisa (Italy).<br> Commission from Faunalia Pontedera (PI)<br><br> Based on <em>v.in.garmin</em> for GRASS 6.0 by Hamish Bowman<br> and <em>v.in.garmin.sh</em> for GRASS 5 by Andreas Lange <BR> <!-- When we tested the script with a Garmin GPS we noticed that importing waypoints the <i>time</i> field is not correctly set. The data reported is a default system time, while with a gpx text file this thing did not happen. We believe that is a <i>gpsbabel</i> trouble in translating from <i>garmin</i> to <i>xcsv</i> ... --> <p><i>Last changed: $Date: 2007-05-10 21:32:06 +0200 (Thu, 10 May 2007) $</i> <HR> <P><a href="index.html">Main index</a> - <a href="vector.html">vector index</a> - <a href="full_index.html">Full index</a></P> <P>© 2003-2008 <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org">GRASS Development Team</a></p> </body> </html>
