Are there other choices for the N810 GPS than the build in software?

Think I would like to do:
1. Trace a path while doing bike or other outdoor activities and save the file to upload to a mapping software (google earth) or only capture the GPS data, save it to a file and upload to PC.

2. The map build in are very old. I am in Quebec, Canada and my street where I live is 20 years old and not there.

3. Is there some library that I could use to build a software myself?

Thanks for any pointers

Simon

As added information for others, here some info on google earth and GPS

http://earth.google.com/intl/en/user...v4/ug_gps.html
http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-deve...t/fmt_lmx.html

in a terminal, if you do "/usr/libexec/navicore-gpsd-helper" it will display GPS NMEA data, so you could just send the output to a file.

Hi
I'm writing an application to store waypoints and generate a KML file for Google Earth.
Actually, only waypoints are store in a sqlite3 database.

New features will be availlable in the next weeks.
http://david.hautbois.free.fr/joomla...fileinfo&id=20
It's an alpha-alpha-alpha version.

Try Maemo Mapper.

Thanks for all the input. I only checked the first post about the navicore-gpsd-helper. This is what I get:
Is there any way of importing this in google earth? I am searching for the file format of gpx or loc files. Is it compatible.

I will check on the other two post now. This is very encouraging.

Thanks,

Maemo Mapper is a free graphical alternative, but it supports recording your track and saving it to the GPX format. See the downloads.maemo.org page here:

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-mapper/

ok this is amazing... I installed maemo-mapper, took a walk, saved the track to my local memory, xfer it with bluetooth on my PC, opened it with google earth and voila... I have my track in google earth.

Is there a way of getting speed from this data with some application. Let say I do a bike ride and want to know the distance, speed, elevation I did during my training, is there something out there for that.

Thanks.. I am closer to my goal than I was hoping for.

Each track point from maemo-mapper look like this
<trkpt lat="45.810874" lon="-74.128640">
<ele>240.00</ele>
<time>2008-01-27T16:36:01</time>
</trkpt>

It would be nice to have the speed data so to plot the speed data during a track.

I have found this site that does just that:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com

You've hit it on the head, sifiliat. Strangely, the GPX file format doesn't define XML tags for speed or heading, even though Maemo Mapper has all that data. As you discovered, though, they can be roughly derived from contiguous data points.