+shadowjig Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I don't like to cache with my phone out all the time. Besides the screen on time kills the battery. So I looked for a way to transfer waypoint files to my GPS via my phone. I have a Garmin GPS 60c and an Android phone. cgeo allows you to browse geocaching.com caches and export them to GPX files. Being frugal, I looked for a free app to upload waypoints to my GPS via a USB OTG cable and found GPSDump. The only problem is that GPSDump doesn't read GPX files. I created an Android app to convert GPX files to OziExplorer waypoint files. The source code is here. And the Android apk file is here. It's a simple interface, just open the GPX file you exported from cgeo and convert it. It'll place the converted file in the same folder as the input file. Once converted, use GPSDump to load the waypoints to your GPS via an USB OTG cable. The app is written using Kivy which takes python code and compiles it for Android. While I don't have any IOS devices, the source code can be compiled to create an IOS. Just visit the Kivy site for compiling Kivy code for IOS. Leave a note and let me know what you think. Quote Link to comment
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