Ubuntu Manpage: gpsman - a (graphical) manager of GPS data

NAME

       gpsman - a (graphical) manager of GPS data

SYNOPSIS

       gpsman [-dev [usb=]DEVICE]
       gpsman [OPTIONS] COMMAND [COMMAND_ARGS]

DESCRIPTION

       gpsman  GPS  Manager  (GPSMan)  is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes possible the
       preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly environment. GPSMan supports
       communication  and  real-time  logging  with  Garmin,  Lowrance and Magellan receivers and
       accepts real-time logging information in NMEA 0183 from any GPS receiver.

       To comunicate with the GPS port the user must have been granted read/write permissions for
       the corresponding device.

       For  use  in  graphical mode GPSMan is normally invoked in the first form above, where the
       usb= prefix to the device path enforces the use of the Garmin USB  protocol.  The  use  in
       this mode is not further described here, a full description being given in the User Manual
       available along with the GPSMan distribution.

       GPSMan can also be used in command line mode (with no graphical interface except with  the
       readand start travel commands), in which case it must be invoked in the second form above.
       The sections below address this mode.

EXIT STATUS

       In non-graphical mode GPSMan exits with either a 0 if COMMAND was  successfully  executed,
       or  a 1 if not. Some commands will write information to the standard output channel. Error
       messages can possibly be written to the standard error channel, but  most  of  the  errors
       will  not be explained. In case of doubt the graphical mode should be used to see if there
       are problems with files or the receiver.

OPTIONS

       Apart from the -dev option all other options are only for use in non-graphical mode.

       -dev DEVICE gives the device path.

       -log creates a log file of the low-level communication
              under the name logfile in the GPSMan user directory.

       -rec Garmin | Lowrance | Magellan
              changes the brand of the receiver (NOTE: at present will only  work  with  Garmin);
              this  option  can be useful to override the options in the preferences file; cannot
              be used with the readput command, nor with the  -prefs  option,  and  cannot  occur
              after the -prot option.

       -prefs PREFSFILE
              gives the path for an alternative preferences file (read after the user preferences
              file); cannot be used with the -rec option.

       -prot PROTOCOL
              selects the protocol to be used for connecting to the receiver; cannot occur before
              the -rec option; the show protocols command can be used to find out which protocols
              are available.

       Options not related with COMMAND will be silently ignored.

NAME=VALUE ARGUMENTS

       Some commands accept parameters in the form NAME=VALUE. The  term  PARAM  when  used  here
       referring  to  arguments of a command has always this meaning. Care should be taken if the
       value part is a string with spaces (or other characters with special meaning for the shell
       or  system  command interpreter) in which case quotes or some other form of quoting should
       be used.

GPSMAN COMMAND SUMMARY

       There is no room in a manual page to  describe  in  detail  the  available  commands.  The
       following  list  gives  a synopsis for all of them and the User Manual should be consulted
       for more information.

       is available exits with 0.

       is connected
              exits with 0 if a connection check with the receiver succeeds.

       show WHAT writes help information to the standard output; WHAT is one of: datums,  formats
       (data  file  formats),  help,  projections, protocols, symbols (waypoint symbols), transfs
       (coordinates transformations).

       haslib LIBRARY checks availability of a library

       getwrite INTYPES FORMAT [OUTTYPES] [OUTPARAMS] PATH transfers data from the receiver to  a
       file.

       readput  FORMAT  [INPARAMS]  [INTYPES]  PATH  [OUTTYPES] transfers data from a file to the
       receiver.

       getrtimelog PATH [INTERVAL] gets the real-time log from the receiver and  saves  it  to  a
       file.

       getfix PATH [TIMEOUT] gets the current fix data from the receiver and saves it to a file.

       getalmanac PATH gets the current almanac data from the receiver and saves it to a file.

       read  IN-FORMAT  [PARAMS]  [TYPES]  PATH  reads  a  data  file  and launches the graphical
       interface (in GPSMan scripts the behaviour is different; see the exec command in the  User
       Manual).

       start  travel  [INTERVAL]  launches  the graphical interface and starts real-time logging,
       animation and travelling.

       translate FORMAT [INPARAMS] [INTYPES] PATH [HOWPARAMS] FORMAT [OUTPARAMS] [OUTTYPES]  PATH
       translates from a file format to another.

       project  LATD LONGD DATUM PROJECTION [PARAMS] writes to the standard output the projection
       of a point.

       georef IMGPATH TRANSF LATD LONGD LATD LONGD [LATD LONGD] DATUM X Y X Y  [X  Y]  PROJECTION
       [PARAMS] writes to the standard output a map information file.

       geopicts  FORMAT  [INPARAMS]  INTYPE PATH [PROCPARAMS] [FORMAT] [OUTPARAMS] PATH PICTPATHS
       geo-references files either based on their time-stamps and a given track, or by using  the
       sequence of waypoints in a group.

       source PATH executes a Tcl/Tk script.

       exec PATH executes a GPSMan script.

AUTHORS

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Miguel  Filgueiras  <migfilg_AT_t-online.de> using a
       previous version by Rogerio Reis <rvr_AT_debian.org>.

       GPSMan: developed and maintained by Miguel Filgueiras, with contributions by Brian Baulch,
       Rogerio  Reis,  Andreas  Lange,  Alessandro Palmas, Niki Hammler, Martin Ostermann, Valere
       Robin, David Wolfskill, Rob Buitenhuis, Frank Kujawski, Tri Agus  Prayitno,  Matt  Martin,
       Stefan Heinen, Heiko Thede, Sabine Broda, Alberto Morales, Martin Buck, David Kaplan, Jean
       H. Theoret, Paul Scorer, Nigel Orr, David  Gardner,  Nikolai  Kosyakoff,  Benoit  Steiner,
       Sandor Laky, Alexander B. Preobrazhenskiy, Rudolf Martin.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <migfilg_AT_t-online.de>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  (C)  1998-2013  by  Miguel Filgueiras <migfilg_AT_t-online.de> and Rogerio Reis
       <rvr_AT_debian.org>

       This is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License;  a  copy  of  this
       license is part of the distribution.

       The two GPSMan logos used by gpsman ara under Copyright (C) 1998-2013 by Miguel Filgueiras
       and are  distributed  under  a  Creative  Commons  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs  3.0
       Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
        http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.

       All other images used by gpsman ara under Copyright (C) 1998-2013 by Miguel Filgueiras and
       are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported  License.  To
       view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

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DESCRIPTION

EXIT STATUS

OPTIONS

NAME=VALUE ARGUMENTS

GPSMAN COMMAND SUMMARY

AUTHORS

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

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