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In the first place, SportWatcher is a program to get out some GPS data from a GPS receiver. I started developing this program when I realized, that there was no support for my new Garmin Forerunner305 under Linux. Because I use Linux only, I was not able to use the software who came with the watch, because it was for Windows only. So I looked closer to this GPS receiver, made for sport and training.
Like most GPS receivers from Garmin, this one uses also the NMEA protocol to transfer data. By accident I found the garmintools, written by "Dave Bailey" (<dave <at> daveb <dot> net>). This tools contain a library to read out the data over the USB port. I used the source by courtesy of Dave as the basic of SportWatcher and used it to get out everything of my Forerunner 305 and hopefully every compatible GPS receiver.
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