Author Topic: garmin 12 map uploading problem (Read 6720 times)

Bob Crane · « **on:** May 04, 2004, 11:27:25 AM »

I am trying to load waypoints into a garmin 12map gps and every time I try to upload it starts beeping and telling me that the waypoints are invalid.
It will upload tracks however it only downloads the end part of each track.
Any suggestions?
bob

Krein · « **Reply #1 on:** May 04, 2004, 11:49:14 AM »

Waypoints -- Yes, I think there is a bug with the older Garmin units. It will be difficult for us to test since we no longer have an older unit. But we will take a look and hopefully fix it for the next beta.

Tracks -- what do you mean by the last part? Is it always a set number of points that gets download (ie the last 250) or? Can you quantify what exactly is being downloaded somehow?

Tracks, as far as we know, are still working.

Krein · « **Reply #2 on:** May 04, 2004, 05:57:27 PM »

Bob,

Have you tried downloading waypoints from your GPS 12?

I need to know if that works or not for you. Thanks.

Also you are using "old garmin" setting, right?

Bob Crane · « **Reply #3 on:** May 04, 2004, 08:50:50 PM »

Quote (Krein @ May 04 2004,6:57)

Waypoints -- Yes, I think there is a bug with the older Garmin units. It will be difficult for us to test since we no longer have an older unit. But we will take a look and hopefully fix it for the next beta.

Tracks -- what do you mean by the last part? Is it always a set number of points that gets download (ie the last 250) or? Can you quantify what exactly is being downloaded somehow?
* on a 400mile trip it seems to download the whole track, yet when I save it it only saves about the last 10 miles.

Tracks, as far as we know, are still working.

Bob,

Have you tried downloading waypoints from your GPS 12?
*yes, and at first I thought they were downloading well until I realized that the longitude was somewhere in Siberia instead of Wisconsin.

I need to know if that works or not for you. Thanks.

Also you are using "old garmin" setting, right?
* I've tried the old and the new.

Krein · « **Reply #4 on:** May 05, 2004, 11:47:38 AM »

Hi Bob,

Are you using a recent version of TopoFusion? I have email from a GPS 12 owner who confirmed that both download and upload of waypoints was working. But I did need to fix it for him and it was 6 months ago.

There could be a problem in the uploading, but downloading should work. It gets the latitude correct, but not the longitude? That is odd because that was the same bug that I fixed back then.

Scott

Bob Crane · « **Reply #5 on:** May 05, 2004, 12:47:53 PM »

I'm using v2.0, but I tried it on my laptop w v1.6 and it had about the same effect.

Krein · « **Reply #6 on:** May 08, 2004, 05:59:58 AM »

Bob,

I cannot figure this one out. By looking at all of the Garmin documentation and the code in TopoFusion I can see nothing wrong.

I confirmed with a user who has a GPS 12 (not map) that all functions works. If it works using old Garmin, the 12 map must be using a different, maybe undocumented, format. Do other GPS programs successfully save/load waypoints?

If so, I will put together a test version for you so we can see exactly what format things are in.

Thanks for your patience.

Bob Crane · « **Reply #7 on:** May 08, 2004, 08:23:58 PM »

Krein,
I just downloaded gps utility and it seems to be working with it, however it is requiring that I shorten all of my filenames to 8 characters. Other than that I have not tried it with any other programs.

Bob