Hi Martin,
On 31/05/17 00:02, J Martin Rushton wrote:
I have a Garmin 78s marine GPS receiver and it stores tracks in GPX format. This is an XML encoded set of points giving longitude, latitude, time and sea depth. Garmin support viewing this via their Garmin Express product, but there only seem to be Windows and Mac versions. I've emailed them and await a reply. In the mean time, does anyone know of any Linux products that will emable me to view track data on a decent sized screen? I don't want to re-invent the wheel by coding up a hack myself.
I road travel quite a bit, and have a Garmin Dezl 760D with my own profiles on there. In both of my trucks, I've got gps recievers running off raspberry pi3's, running CentOS7/armv7 images. I bring all this together on my laptop, running viking and gpsbabel under the hood.
This allows me to do all my route planning on either google-maps, google-earth, or viking and all the tracks from the different devices come together as layers. The POI tracking and specially the topo tracking on viking is pretty good. There is no viable road-route planner that works on Linux at this point though.
Thats the one thing that the garmin apps do really well. As a workaround, I've used viamichelin to good effect ( and wikiloc ); and all the tools and bits you need to track and refactor on the road, come together really well on CentOS.
HTH