FC6 and Garmin GPS

[John Warner]

There is a standard data format now for GPS called NEMA or something
similar. This is straight ASCII text. My guess would be your Garmin just
dumps this data straight down the serial cable. Depending on your skill
level, I'll bet a shell script or Perl script could handle this task.
Look up NEMA GPS in Google and see if you don't get a few ideas. I'm at
work right now and generally just lurk, but have tinkered a bit with GPS
data in an old HP handheld. Parsing the data is not at all complicated
if you have any programming experience. If you don't and I can
understand that, you still might want to look at seeing if you can
redirect the input from the rs232 port on your computer into a file and
look at it in vi or your preferred editor.

John Warner