Google Maps Hacks by Rich Gibson & Schuyler Erle

Author:Rich Gibson & Schuyler Erle [Gibson, Rich & Erle, Schuyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Google, Web, Computer Graphics, Search Engines, Google Maps, Electronic Books, Computers, General, Google (Firm), Browsers, Digital Mapping, Multimedia Cartography, Internet, Computer Network Resources, Internet Searching, Interactive & Multimedia, Maps, Roads, Geographic Information Systems
ISBN: 9780596101619
Google: -npgHHQ5010C
Amazon: 0596101619
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2006-09-14T07:00:00+00:00

4.12.2. Back Down to Earth

Of course, we want your location, not some random one. We'll be using your Garmin GPS receiver to get your position and the cable you probably felt you were paying far too much money for (unless it came with your receiver or you built it yourself, in which case, good for you) to connect it to your PC.

We also need some software that'll fetch your longitude and latitude from the GPS device. You would think that would be a simple task, but unless my search engine fu is failing me badly, I couldn't find anything that just got our location from the device. Lots of applications for downloading waypoints and tracklogs, loads of neat scripts for Linux, but Windows programs for lat and long in an easy to use format? No such luck.

The closest I could find was the MS-DOS binary version of Garnix from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anton.helm/garnix.html. Download it and unzip it into your c:\geo\ folder, or where ever you decided to put your .kml file. You'll need to edit the GARNIX.CFG file in Notepad to read as follows:

port: "com4"; deg_min_sec; datum: "WGS84"; ;grid: "UTM"; ;zone: "33"; ; ;See datum.cfg for datum names ;See grid.cfg for grid and zone names

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