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In order to run GPSMan, Tcl/Tk (preferably version 8.4 or later) must be previously installed. It can be got from the Active State site.
To use GPSMan under MacOS X have a look here.
Current distribution : version 6.4.4.2
Use of Shapefiles only possible if the version 1.2 or newer of the gpsmanshp library is available. It can be downloaded from its its site.
Tcl/Tk libraries that will be be used if they are installed:
Img, a library implementing enhanced support for graphics
and graphic formats; it is part of recent Tcl/Tk distributions.
exif, a Tcl/Tk package that is part of the
standard Tcl/Tk distribution, used here for trying to know the
time-stamp of picture files when geo-referencing them.
TclCurl, a library with bindings to libcurl
that gives support for accessing World Wide Web servers; it is
provided by the Debian Linux package tclcurl.
The following external utilities might be used if available:
gnuplot, to produce elevation graphs for
tracks;
which or whereis, to check whether a program is
available;
exif and/or metacam, to get the time-stamp of
picture files when geo-referencing them.
Distribution available for downloading from this site: tar gz archive gpsman-6.4.4.2.tgz 6 October 2013, and sha1 checksum.
Binary packages for Linux/Unix systems can be retrieved from:
The following utilities can be found in the GPSMan distribution:
A separate program to convert the waypoints listed in HTML pages of
the MapBlast site into GPSMan files is also available under the name
of mb2gmn.tcl. At its core is code contributed by Martin
Ostermann (Aachen University of Technology). The reason why this code
was not integrated into GPSMan is that the format of those HTML pages
does not follow any known specification and may change at any
time.
In order to run mb2gmn.tcl GPSMan must be installed as
they share some source files. After downloading, the file
mb2gmn.tcl, which can be found in the util directory,
should be edited for configuration.
To use this program HTML pages produced at the MapBlast
site in answer to queries under the
Directions section should be saved locally and then opened from
the program.
A separate program to convert the routes listed in HTML
pages of the MapsOnUS site into GPSMan files is also available under
the name of mou2gmn.tcl. At its core is code contributed by
Frank Kujawski (Frank_at_Kujawski.org). The reason why this code
was not integrated into GPSMan is that the format of those HTML pages
does not follow any known specification and may change at any
time.
In order to run mou2gmn.tcl GPSMan must be installed as
they share some source files. After downloading, the file
mou2gmn.tcl, which can be found in the util directory,
should be edited for configuration.
This program works on HTML files 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.
A separate script dos2gpsman.tcl that 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.
The shape2quadr.tcl script 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.
A screenshot is available showing the results of applying this program to a large Shapefile.
A separate program to convert the routes listed in HTML pages of
the GreenFlag site into GPSMan files is also available under the name
of gf2gmn.tcl. At its core is code contributed by Nigel Orr
(gps_at_river-view.freeserve.co.uk). The reason why this code
was not integrated into GPSMan is that the format of those HTML pages
does not follow any known specification and may change at any
time.
In order to run gf2gmn.tcl GPSMan must be installed as
they share some source files. After downloading, the file
gf2gmn.tcl, which can be found in the util directory,
should be edited for configuration.
To use this program 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.
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