Re: NMEA transfer of WP/Routes to handheld?

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:56:14 -0800, Brent Geery
<fasttimes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:52:49 GMT, "Bruce E. Stemplewski"
><Bruce.Stemplewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Brent Geery wrote:
>>> Are there any hand-held GPSRs that can transfer waypoints and routes
>>> via NMEA? I searched Google, and not much mention of hand-held
>>> models.
>>>
>>
>>If there are then it is going to require a special proprietary form of
>>NMEA. A protocol is a protocol so if it is a special NMEA protocol then
>>it might as well one like the Garmin protocol.
>>
>>But I believe Magellan are based on NMEA.
>
>No, NMEA does define sentences for the purposes of transferring the
>current route and route waypoints. No need for proprietary formats or
>sentences. The problem is knowing first the units that will "listen"
>in NMEA mode vs just talking, then further understand the NMEA
>sentences to accomplish the task.

BTW, I'm referring to the WPL and RTE sentences. See the following
for details. http://gpsd.berlios.de/NMEA.txt

Here is a thread that mentions that the Garmin 12xl could receive
waypoints (I'm assuming also the active route) via the NMEA sentence.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.satellite-nav/browse_thread/thread/1f1ec94606011555/
And
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.satellite-nav/browse_thread/thread/a25f863e889cc09/

And another thread that gives some more info:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.satellite-nav/browse_thread/thread/97ee698edf9d70a5/

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BRENT - The Usenet typo king. :)
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