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The GPSMan distribution includes (in the util directory) some
other utilities that can also be downloaded from the GPSMan site.
The first three below were not integrated into GPSMan because the format of the HTML pages they read does not follow any known specification and may change at any time. They must be edited for configuration and GPSMan must be installed before they can be used.
mb2gmn.tcl converts the waypoints listed in HTML pages of the
MapBlast site into GPSMan files. At its core is code contributed by
Martin Ostermann (Aachen University of Technology). It translates HTML
pages produced at the MapBlast site
in answer to queries under the Directions section; the pages
should be saved locally and then opened from the program.
mou2gmn.tcl converts the routes listed in HTML pages of the
MapsOnUS site into GPSMan files. At its core is code contributed by
Frank Kujawski (Frank_at_Kujawski.org). It translates HTML pages
created at the MapsOnUS site as
follows: go to the "General Options" (under the "Tools" menu),
select "Show Latitude & Longitude", plan a route, "jump to
turn-by-turn directions", hit the "non-tabular format" link and
save locally the HTML page. These files are then opened from the
program and the resulting files will contain the routes and their
waypoints. The remark fields of the waypoints will have the directions
in the HTML pages.
gf2gmn.tcl converts the routes listed in HTML pages of the
GreenFlag site into GPSMan files. At its core is code contributed by
Nigel Orr (gps_at_river-view.freeserve.co.uk). It translates
HTML pages produced at the GreenFlag
site
[link not working on June 2007]
as follows:
Step by step maps under directions style
(down on the page),
Get Directions,
The saved pages are then opened from gf2gmn.tcl.
dos2gpsman.tcl converts BGA (British Gliding
Association) DOS turnpoints files to GPSMan. It was contributed by
Paul Scorer (p.scorer_at_leedsmet.ac.uk). It reads from and writes
to the standard input and standard output unless otherwise specified
by the arguments which are:
[-p feature] [-f findability] [-a air_activity] \
[-i in_file] [-o out_file] [-h] [--help]
where findability is a letter in A to D or G, and
air_activity is a 1 or 2-characters string.
shape2quadr.tcl reads a Shapefile and from a list of
quadrangles (defined by extreme latitude and longitude) produces
GPSMan files, one for the set of items in the file that belong to each
quadrangle. Quadrangles may overlap. Items may belong to more than one
quadrangle. This utility may prove helpful for dealing with large
Shapefiles. It can be called in two ways:
FILE PREFIX [NAME LONGMIN LONGMAX LATMIN LATMAX]+where
NAME is the name of each quadrangle
FILE PREFIX -d QPREFIX LONG LONGRANGE STEPLONG MAXLONG \
LAT LATRANGE STEPLAT MAXLAT
where QPREFIX is used in generating names for the
quadrangles, each quadrangle having an extent of
LONGRANGE by LATRANGE, the first has the southwest
corner at LONG,LAT, and the southwest corners of the
others follow at steps of LONGSTEP and LATSTEP and
will not be greater than MAXLONG and MAXLAT
FILE, the Shapefile to be read, and
PREFIX that is used for generating a file name for each
quadrangle.
Shapefiles with points are not supported and altitudes are not kept. The coordinates in the Shapefile are assumed to be in decimal degrees (DDD) in the "WGS 84" datum (it can easily be changed in the utility source).
All items read are saved as GPSMan polylines (LNs) in DDD format.
Each quadrangle file will also have a group (GR) with all its
polylines, so that it will be easy to display/hide all of them at
once; the file starts with a comment giving the boundaries of the
quadrangle. The file name is of the form PREFIX_QUAD where
QUAD is the quadrangle name; each file is created in the
current directory destroying any file under the same name.
GPSMan User Manual
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