#Gpsbabel mac garmin serial

Update - I’ve installed the windows versions of both Google Earth and GPS Babel in the virtual machine and they both communicate with the GPS. It can perform a number of spatial and management operations on GPS data, including simplification and trimming by geographic area. I’ll keep looking and see if there are any answers. Questions tagged gpsbabel GPSBabel is cross-platform, free software to translate between the myriad of GPS and spatial file formats and to down/upload from files to GPS. You can set Baud rate but there are other parameters that are not available with that configuration screen that are available under windows. When you connect your Nuvi to your PC you will see all of your Garmin folders.

#Gpsbabel mac garmin serial

OS X treats the serial device as if it’s a modem. I then use the gpsbabel to convert the route into the GPX format that the. One plus point with the Babel software is that it does report what it’s trying to do and what the errors are occurring which I guess might help identify the problem. It automatically cycles through the different usb ports (bluetooth, serial etc.) looking for the device but fails to connect. I also tried the GPS options in Google Earth but that had the same outcome. Success with Garmin USB is predicated upon two things: current device firmware and OS/X.

Other users had some success with GPS Babel on similar setups. GPSBabel is available precompiled for MacOS (formerly OS/X). I used GPS Babel after the Garmin web based software failed to connect or recognise the device.