Re: OSM & GPS??

[Clifford Snow]

I would suggest using QGIS. It run great under Fedora. I use Dani's copr
repo for QGIS. (copy of repo below) It's has the latest version, 3.4 which
is very stable. QGIS will natively open GPX tracks. Then you'll want to get
some backgrounds. I would add the QuickMapServices plugin. Once the plugin
is installed, Go to Web, QuickMapServices and open settings. Under More
service, select Get contributed pack. It will load in more than a dozen
backgrounds you can use.

As a personal note from an active OSM contributor, please at least consider
uploading your tracks. Just go to osm.org and select GPX Tracks to upload
yours. If you are willing to put some extra effort, once you've added your
traces, please add your trail to OSM.

When I'm speaking to a group about OSM, I'm usually asked about quality,
which is at least as good, if not better, than the others in large cities.
But for trails, OSM has the most trails of any map service. 99% of those
trails are added from gpx traces from people just like you.

If you need help with OSM or QGIS, please contact me directly.

Best,
Clifford

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 1:37 PM Beartooth  wrote:
>     I have a pair of old Garmin RINO 120 GPSs and a gadget to connect
>
> either of them, one at a time, to my PC, currently running F 29. For
> several years I could run topo map software under WINE -- unfree software
> from any, or almost any, of half a dozen vendors -- but never get any of
> them to talk to either GPS. Now there is Open Street Map, a.k.a. OSM,
> which I THINK runs natively under Linux.
>     I have studied forums and followed discussion lists (with Pan and
>
> Gmane, since most of the content is obviously unrelated to my
> questions).  For years.
>     It seems that everyone else is a mapMAKER, and takes mere USE for
>
> granted. I only want to use it, and only out in the woods or the desert
> or the tooley weeds -- all of which, it seems, OSM does map, despite its
> name. I want to get maps to scale that show things of interest to me
> only, or I hope only -- things like good lunch rocks, and nests, and
> particular trees, all or nearly all off any trail.
>     Unlike the OSM regulars, I have no advanced skills in
>
> cartography, nor EE, nor CS. My skills and knowledge are in unrelated
> areas.
>     All this boils down to two questions. If I install OSM under
>
> Fedora, will it accept, incorporate, and display off-road and off-trail
> data from an old GPS, either with OSM's own data, or with things like USGS
> topo maps? And if it will, can an ordinary mortal learn to use it?
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
> Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
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