RE: Linux connection with Lowrance Airmap 100?

[Amos Shapira <amos@gezernet.co.il>]

From: "Gregory W. Ratcliff" <gwr@edaind.com>
> There _used_to_be_ a whole bunch of users
> doing moving map stuff on sailboats, with source
> code and everything to do the standard NMEA
> protocol...what most of the gps boxes output,

Thanks, but I was looking more at the other way around - i.e. create a
land map on a PC (under Linux, using scanned maps if possible) and be
able to UPLOAD it into the GPS, because that's the most I can take
with me for a flight or a drive or a hike.

> Here's some java stuff
> 
> http://www.stacken.kth.se/~bjorkman/ChartPlotter/ChartPlotter.html

Thanks, will look into this.

Also, it looks like Lowrance are open enough to document their serial
protocol (LSI-100, IIRC), but as far as I skimmed through it it
doesn't describe a way to upload maps.

Maybe I'll run the IMS under DOSEMU/Wine/VMware and sniff the serial
line (maybe the only positive point about having this program use DOS
interfaces :-)

Cheers,

--Amos

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