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Wayuk11

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Description

Waypoint and Road Track UK Databases for HPx00LX Palmtops and the GARMIN GPS45 v1.1 20 June 1996 General The enclosed files contain Hewlett Packard HPx00LX databases of waypoints and segmented road track logs for the UK. The databases have been set up to allow their partial upload to a Garmin GPS45 with the excellent G7TO program by Ron Henderson (crh@cv.hp.com), thus allowing you to get a relatively detailed moving map display on your GPS without exceeding its memory capacity.

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Technical details

File
wayuk11.zip
Size
98.7 KB
Format
.zip
Year
1996
Files inside
8
Path
anonftp/pub/wayuk11.zip

How to install it

What to send to the palmtop saves 6.0 KB

These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.

  • TRAK.ICN → A:\SOFT icono, junto a su aplicación 200 B
  • UPLOAD.BAT → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 178 B
  • WAY.ICN → A:\SOFT icono, junto a su aplicación 200 B
  • GPS.ICN → A:\SOFT icono, junto a su aplicación 200 B
  • GPS.BAT → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 341 B
  • WAY.GDB → A:\DATOS fichero de datos 145.4 KB
  • TRAK.GDB → A:\DATOS fichero de datos 181.2 KB

No need to put README.TXT: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 6.0 KB on a 1 MB disk.

Steps
  1. Copy UPLOAD.BAT, GPS.BAT to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.
  2. The .ICN files are icons: they go in the same folder as their application.
  3. Data files are opened from their own application, not installed separately.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

The author's instructions
Installation
Put way.gdb, trak.gdb, way.icn, and trak.icn together in the same
directory (eg \_dat).

How to use the databases
The procedure is to select a range of roads and locations from the
databases, export them to one of more files suitable for upload to your
GPS45, and then to upload them.

Open one of the database files (say, way.gdb) in the HP's Database
application. Select the records you're interested in. Some subsets have
been predefined.

For example, edit the "Corridor" subset to find all those points within
a user defined rectangular shaped area. Use existing waypoints to help
you define the limits. If the area is too big, you'll end up with more
points than it's possible to upload into your GPS at once. Too small,
and you'll miss detail that's useful. Once you've defined a general SSL
statement that works you can use the same statement (with Copy/Paste) in
both databases to create two files, one for waypoints and the other for
roads within the selected area.

You can use a predefined 'Smart Clip' definition to export the data in a
format G7TO can directly accept. In the database 'Print' dialogue,
select 'Custom' in the Style box, and select 'G7TO format' in the drop
down list in the same box. Then 'Print to' 'File'. The resulting file
can be uploaded to the GPS45 with a G7TO command like

g7to -o G45 -i filename

If you want, you can use batch files to manage the launching of G7TO.
GPS.BAT, GPS.ICN and UPLOAD.BAT have been supplied as examples. To use
them, create \GPS and \GPS\DATA directories. Put the above named
files in \GPS. You'll also need DOS 5's CHOICE command accessible in the
DOS path (or just put it in \GPS as well). In the HP's System Manager,
add a new entry with the following parameters:

Name: GPS Upload
Path: c:\gps\gps.bat|320
…

Literal excerpt from README.TXT, exactly as it came in the package.

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