Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to:
- Alessandro Palmas (alpalmas_at_tin.it) for his implementation of
elevation graphs for routes and tracks, for providing continued support
for Italian, his help in debugging and his suggestions for improvements.
- Ashutosh Dutta (dutta_at_cs.columbia.edu) for testing the
communication with the Garmin GPS 72 receiver and for his suggestions.
- Anders Lennartsson (anders.lennartsson_at_sto.foa.se) for
permission to translate code in GPStrans for the Swedish grid
coordinates.
- Andreas Lange (Andreas.C.Lange_at_GMX.de) for providing continued
support for German and the description of the GKK projection.
- Brian Baulch (baulchb_at_hotkey.net.au) for his work on
adapting GPSMan for Lowrance receivers, for his ideas on
improvements to GPSMan, for the wheelmouse support,
real-time logging (variant for the Lowrance),
and help on finding and destroying bugs.
- Brice-Olivier Demory (brice-olivier.demory_at_epfl.ch) who
did the tests leading to the explicit support of the Garmin GPS 76
receiver.
- Carsten Tschach (tschach_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de) for making
available GPStrans.
- Dan Jacobson (jidanni_at_yahoo.com.tw) for his help in
debugging, his suggestions and the information on the Taiwan grid.
- David Wolfskill (david_at_catwhisker.org) who prepared a
FreeBSD package of GPSMan, and helped with the use of the Img
package.
- Edouard Lafargue who tested the communication with the Garmin
eMap.
- Frank Jordan (Universität Duisburg) for his help and patience in
testing the communication with the Garmin eTrex receiver, for
his suggestions on improvements to GPSMan and for his help in the
process of making the GPSMan Debian package a part of the official
Debian distribution.
- Frank Kujawski (Frank_at_Kujawski.org), for the tests with
the eTrex Legend and the contribution of code for converting
route information in MapsOnUS HTML format into GPSMan format.
- Harald Koenig (Universität Tübingen) for the tests
of the communication over a USB serial port under Linux and his
suggestions.
- Harald Stauss (harald.stauss_at_web.de) for his help in debugging,
his suggestions, and for testing the communication with the
Garmin eTrex Euro.
- Heiko Thede (Heiko.Thede_at_gmx.de) that contributed a
shell and Tcl scripts to convert export files from Map&Guide to
GPSMan format.
- Herbert Tammer (H.E.Tammer_at_DNB.NL) for the tests with
the GPSMAP 76.
- Janne Sinkkonen (janne_at_iki.fi) for permission to translate code
in GPStrans for the Finnish KKJY grid coordinates.
- Jim Wang who tested the communication with the Garmin GPSMAP 295.
- João Pedro Pedroso (LIACC, Universidade do Porto) for his help
with the criteria to change goals when navigating a route in an
approximate way.
- John M. Quinn (U. S. Geological Survey) for making available
the GEOMAG algorithm for estimating the magnetic declination.
- John Matthews (john_at_matthews-net.org.uk) who sent the
list of protocols used by the Garmin GPSMAP 196.
- Jonathan Pennington (john_at_coastalgeology.org) who tested the
communication with the Garmin GPS III+.
- José Paulo Leal and Luís Damas (LIACC, Universidade do Porto)
who keep solving my problems with Tcl/Tk.
- Klaus Ethgen (Klaus_at_Ethgen.de) for his great help in
testing the communication with the Garmin GPSMAP 76S and debugging
the low-level communication with Garmin receivers.
- Kyle Grieser (yuf_at_phoenixdsl.com) for all the work in testing the
communication with the Garmin 12Map.
- Luísa Bastos (Universidade do Porto), Gil Gonçalves
(Universidade de Coimbra), José Alberto Gonçalves (Universidade
do Porto) and Sérgio Cunha (Universidade do Porto) for their help
with geodetic formulae and information.
- Marko Hyvärinen (mth_at_sun3.oulu.fi) for testing the communication
with the Garmin 12CX.
- Martin Ostermann (Aachen University of Technology) who
contributed code for converting waypoint information in MapBlast
HTML format into GPSMan format.
- Matt Martin (matt.martin_at_ieee.org) who implemented the
support for Magellan receivers.
- Max Spring (mspring_at_cisco.com) for testing the communication
with the Garmin eTrex Mariner.
- Niki Hammler (http://www.nobaq.net) who wrote a Perl script for
reading waypoints data in Fugawi export format.
- Odilon Ferreira Jr (odilonf@estaminas.com.br), the author of
GPS-TrackMaker, who kindly provided information on the file formats
and datums used by his program.
- Peter H. Dana (University of Texas) who provided help in correcting
bugs in the conversion of UTM/UPS coordinates and information on map
projections.
- Povl H. Pedersen (pope_at_my.terminal.dk) who corrected a bug in
the implementation of the Garmin protocol.
- Rob Buitenhuis (rob_at_buitenhs.demon.nl) who contributed
the support for Dutch, the definition of the Schreiber projection
and of the Netherlands grid and helped in debugging.
- Robert Joop (rj_at_rainbow.in-berlin.de) who contributed new
symbols, provided valuable suggestions and helped in debugging.
- Rogério Reis (LIACC, Universidade do Porto) for an algorithm for
simplifying tracks, for his ideas on the interface functionality,
help in debugging and his work on creating and maintaining a Linux
Debian GPSMan package.
- Rolf Hatt (rolf_at_hatt.com) who tested the communication
with the Garmin GPSMAP 180.
- Sabine Broda (LIACC, Universidade do Porto) who contributed the
support for German since version 6.0.
- Stefan Hauser (etienne_at_imp.ch) who made the tests of the
communication with the Garmin eMap 2.71 and for his suggestions.
- Stefan Heinen (Stefan.Heinen_at_synopsys.com) who tested the
communication with the Garmin eTrex Summit, contributed new
data structures for datums, the procedure to access them and changes
to improve the focus policy and bindings under MS-Windos,
as well as for his worked out suggestions.
- Thomas Trauber for testing the communication with the Garmin
eTrex receiver.
- Tri Agus Prayitno (acuss_at_bk.or.id) who provided the
support for Indonesian.
- Valère Robin (valere.robin_at_wanadoo.fr) who contributed
the support for French and for his suggestions.
- Wolfgang Rupprecht, Tony Mollica, Andrey Semiuglov, Ron
Thomas, John Madore, Kevin Geiss, Russell Senior, Urs Forster,
Scot E. Wilcoxon, David Fletcher, Dragan Milicic, Anto Veldre,
Slaven Rezic, Ronaldo Reis Jr., Tomasz R. Surmacz, Andreas
Hünnebeck, Kenneth Ingham, Gianluca Interbartolo, and Victor Yip
for their help in detecting and tracking down bugs and for their
suggestions.
GPSMan User Manual
©Miguel
Filgueiras,
mig_at_ncc.up.pt
, DCC-FC & LIACC,
Universidade do Porto, 2003