Rev and USB?

[Ian Wood]

Hmm. That's already more complex than the GPS datalogger I'm using (http://www.transystem.com.tw/p-gps-iblue747.htm 
).

No mention of Mac drivers *anywhere* for the Keymaze 300, and it's  
even hard to find out what chipset it's based on. :-( So I suspect  
that GPSBabel won't help as you still need to get the files off the  
thing!

The iBlue 747 will work with Mac Travel Recorder once you've installed  
a Mac driver for the device. MTR will save to GPX (one of the main  
standard file formats for GPS stuff) or to KML, unfortunately it's dog- 
slow at converting the files and I've not yet figured out the binary  
log files MTR saves as it's native format...

Ian

On 23 Jan 2008, at 10:09, Graham Samuel wrote:

> Thanks Ian for the reply. I had never heard of GPSBabel but I'm  
> looking at it now- it looks like the way to go, provided I can find  
> the manufacturer as you suggest.
>
> To answer your question, the device is an 'own-label' device sold by  
> a mainly French sports chain, Decathlon - they call it a 'Keymaze  
> 300', and it's made in Taiwan (not mainland China, surprisingly). I  
> imagine it is a re-branding and the device (certainly its processor)  
> will appear under other names elsewhere, but I have not yet done the  
> research to pin this down. Note that this is not a full-blown GPS  
> device in that one can't import waypoints into it so as to plan a  
> route - it's what's called a 'training' device, which means that it  
> records a route as you travel on it and then allows you to observe  
> or extract the routing info at the end of the journey. Their  
> wonderful trick (on the PC software) is to allow export of .kml  
> files which can be fed directly into Google Earth in order to  
> display your route. Google have put the .kml format into the public  
> domain (it's a kind of xml) so there is a lot of potential there. My  
> project would be related to existing geography-teaching  
> applications... anyway I have now told you more than you want to know.
>
> Thanks again for the intro to GPSBabel. I see I have a lot of work  
> to do. Maybe the whole thing will crash and burn, but we'll see.
>
> Graham
>
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:48:33 +0000, Ian Wood <revlist at azurevision.co.uk 
> > wrote:
>
>> Reading and writing to serial ports is supposed to be pretty easy in
>> Rev (I've not actually done it), but USB is a LOT more complex.
>>
>> What GPS device is it? There are quite a few devices around where the
>> manufacturer doesn't supply Mac software, but where you can download
>> drivers from the manufacturers of the USB bridge in the device, then
>> use third-party software such as GPSBabel.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On 22 Jan 2008, at 11:07, Graham Samuel wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone give advice about how to go about making a Rev-developed
>>> app talk to a USB interface? I'm thinking of writing something that
>>> talks to a GPS device which has no Mac software available from the
>>> manufacturer, but which can be linked to a PC via a USB cable. I am
>>> out of touch with this kind of thing and can't easily work out how
>>> hard it would be.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> Graham
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France
>
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