GPSMAN(1) User Commands GPSMAN(1)NAMEgpsman - a (graphical) manager of GPS data
SYNOPSISgpsman [-dev [usb=]DEVICE]
gpsman [OPTIONS] COMMAND [COMMAND_ARGS]
DESCRIPTIONgpsman 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 log‐
ging 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 inter‐
face 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 suc‐
cessfully 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 com‐
mand 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 [OUT‐
PARAMS] [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 informa‐
tion file.
geopicts FORMAT [INPARAMS] INTYPE PATH [PROCPARAMS] [FORMAT] [OUT‐
PARAMS] 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 contribu‐
tions 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
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Miguel Filgueiras and are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribu‐
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SEE ALSO
Miguel Filgueiras, GPSMan User Manual, Version 6.4.4.2, October 2013
This manual, in both PDF and HTML, is part of the distribution of GPS‐
Man and can be retrieved from the GPSMan site at http://source‐
forge.net/projects/gpsman. It is 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/.
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