You probably searched the Wine application database
(https://appdb.winehq.org/) to find out that there hasn't been much
progress recently with Garmin applications (I tried to install BaseCamp
and MapSource into wine, neither with much success).
But did you have a look at QLandkarteGT? It is a native Linux
application and it is not rocket science to use. You can load waypoints
and tracks from a Garmin device to display them on a map, if it is that
what you want to accomplish. There are a lot of free maps available, it
is described in the wiki how to load them into QLandkarte.
Older Garmin serial devices seem to be supported, but I could not try
that because I only have an USB device (Dakota 20).
HTH
Am 06.07.2015 um 18:29 schrieb Beartooth:
Last time I tried, a few years back, Wine was not yet up to
handling Garmin's proprietary topo map software. It would install, and
sometimes even work, so long as I didn't try to connect a GPS to it. (The
ones I have are all also Garmins -- old ones wanting a serial port.)
I made a huge effort, for most of a year, with a lot of help from
high-powered Alpha Plus Technoids on several lists, this one not least
among them. But I only ever got one GPS to talk to the software one time,
and never figured out how ....
What I'm trying to do (and did, under M$, years ago) is go locate
game trails, lunch rocks, good stands, etc., on a hunting ground; then
come home and include all that info into a good map, to scale, of the
hunting ground.
Another approach would be to install, say, XP onto a virtual
machine, and do the work there. That did work, for a while, after a
sufficiently sophisticated technoid friend installed an emulation, or
sandbox, or whatever it was. But when I once bollixed up the virtual
machine, my cyber-savvy didn't suffice to restore it.
And yes, I know there are Linux-native suites nowadays; and
Garmin is reported to've put its source code into the public domain.
Alas!, those suites all seem to require advanced degrees in CS,
cartography, or fields too fierce to mention. <sigh>
Are we there yet?
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