Hi Valentijn, Paul, all, On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:29:08AM +0200, Valentijn Sessink wrote:
Paul Johnson schreef:
Routing involving cycleways (by bicycle or by car) makes me wonder why nobody's bothered getting Garmin's SDK and create new software for those units...
Can you please explain how that link is relevant to the Garmin SDK? It is a proprietary set of maps in Garmin format, right? (Do you happen to know which tools they are using in the map compilation?) Please correct and enlighten me if I am wrong, but I think that the only SDK that Garmin is distributing has something to do with a binary library for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X that speaks the proprietary Garmin protocols over USB or RS-232. Again, as far as I know, some recent models (Edge 605/705 at least) do not speak that protocol. Instead, they only implement the usb-storage driver, making the internal flash and the SD card accessible as block devices (drive letters in Windows parlance). I would love to hack the Garmin Edge 705 firmware to fix some annoyances, but I haven't been able to find anything about existing efforts. There is a firmware hacking scene for Canon digital cameras, for instance. Marko