Seat of the Revolution

Use a bash script, invoking gpsbabel, to pull the gps points off the gps device. In my case, it's a Garmin gecko 301 on /dev/ttyS0.

#!/bin/bash
filename="`date +%y%m%d-%H%M`"
echo "creating $filename-tracklog.gpx"
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyS0 -o gpx -F $filename-trackl

With the gpx file and gpxgoogle, create an html file with a google map of the track. Configure gpxgoogle to use your google maps api key.

./gpxgoogle 070812-1817-tracklog.gpx > trail_20070812.html

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