7/28/2023 0 Comments Archive fsh gpsbabel![]() If you see that or lists are down for periods of time in the next week or two this is why. Hopefully someone finds this via a search engine and it is helpful to them. vmdk file to your VMWare box and mount it in a new VMWare image. There are very good tools for doing this with Windows-based computers, but not much for FreeBSD. This process is called P2V (physical to virtual). Last night I spent a lot of time trying to move the FreeBSD machine () over to VMWare. This one box will use about the same amount of power as any one of the previous machines. They’ll share a single set of disks, memory, and CPU. Using VMWare Server I canrun the operating systems from those three machines at the same time on a single computer. This month I’m replacing all of those physical servers with a single PC. The total power consumption for all three machines is around 400 watts, which costs us about $25/mo in electricity (“clean” hydro-powered electricity, but that is still a lot of energy). We also have a file server for our house, so that is 3 computers powered on 24×7. There is no reason for a manufacturer in 2013 to be using a proprietary format for GPS track data.Ĭurrently / are run off of two servers, one running FreeBSD and one running Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003. If I were buying a new boat GPS I’d give serious consideration to a Garmin instead of a Raymarine. Sadly the FSH format doesn’t contain point by point times, so you don’t get speeds and can’t where where I was on which day. You can now edit the GPX with your normal tools (I used Garmin Basecamp)Īnd finally, a link to a map that I generated this way.This produces archive.GPX which contains waypoints, routes, and tracks for everything that was in the FSH. Run “gpsbabel -i osm -f archive.osm -x transform,trk=rte -o gpx -F archive.gpx”.This also converts the tracks to routes, but we’ll convert them back in the next step. Run “parsefsh archive.osm” to convert the FSH to a OSM file.On the SD card you will find a single file called “archive.fsh”.Export your tracks from the Raymarine MFD to a SD card.gpsbabel – This can convert the OSM format to GPX. ![]() ![]() parsefsh – This tool can read the proprietary FSH file format and convert it the OSM format.This is all command line stuff though, so it’s not very user friendly. The software is also cross platform and will work on a Mac running OS X, or a PC running Windows or Unix. All software involved is free, so you don’t need to spend $50 on Raymarine’s Vogage Planner. I wanted to document the steps to go from having data on your Raymarine GPS to showing it on a Google Map. A few nice guys have reverse engineered it, but it is hard to find their tools online. It turns out that Raymarine can only save their routes in an undocumented file format called FSH. I just finished a great 4 week sailing trip and thought it would be nice to get the route that we took as an online map. I have a Raymarine e7D chart plotter (fancy name for a GPS) on my sailboat. Raymarine makes a popular line of electronics for boats. There will be a couple of bike and framebuilding posts after that related to some delayed projects. The next blog post will be about a big sailing trip that I just returned from. This is going to be a boring post for most of you, but it’s going to really help someone down the line. I’m now one month into a three month vacation, and part of my plan is to get the blog up to date with both sailing and non-sailing activities. You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t posted in a long time.
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