Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to:

• Alessandro Palmas (alpalmas_at_tin.it) for his implementation of elevation graphs for routes and tracks, for providing continued support for Italian, his help in debugging and his suggestions for improvements.
• Anders Lennartsson (anders.lennartsson_at_sto.foa.se) for permission to translate code in GPStrans for the Swedish grid coordinates.
• Andreas Lange (andreas.lange_at_rhein-main.de) for providing continued support for German and the description of the GKK projection.
• Brian Baulch (baulchb_at_hotkey.net.au) for his work on adapting GPSMan for Lowrance receivers, for his ideas on improvements to GPSMan, for the wheelmouse support, real-time logging (variant for the Lowrance), and help on finding and destroying bugs.
• Carsten Tschach (tschach_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de) for making available GPStrans.
• Dan Jacobson (jidanni_at_yahoo.com.tw) for his help in debugging, his suggestions and the information on the Taiwan grid.
• David Wolfskill (david_at_catwhisker.org) who prepared a FreeBSD package of GPSMan.
• Edouard Lafargue who tested the communication with the Garmin eMap.
• Frank Jordan (Universität Duisburg) for his help and patience in testing the communication with the Garmin eTrex receiver, for his suggestions on improvements to GPSMan and for his help in the process of making the GPSMan Debian package a part of the official Debian distribution.
• Frank Kujawski (Frank_at_Kujawski.org), for the tests with the eTrex Legend and the contribution of code for converting route information in MapsOnUS HTML format into GPSMan format.
• Harald Koenig (Universität Tübingen) for the tests of the communication over a USB serial port under Linux and his suggestions.
• Harald Stauss (harald.stauss_at_web.de) for his help in debugging, his suggestions, and for testing the communication with the Garmin eTrex Euro.
• Janne Sinkkonen (janne_at_iki.fi) for permission to translate code in GPStrans for the Finnish KKJY grid coordinates.
• Jim Wang who tested the communication with the Garmin GPSMAP 295.
• John M. Quinn (U. S. Geological Survey) for making available the GEOMAG algorithm for estimating the magnetic declination.
• Jonathan Pennington (john_at_coastalgeology.org) who tested the communication with the Garmin GPS III+.
• José Paulo Leal and Luís Damas (Universidade do Porto) who solved my Tcl/Tk problems.
• Kyle Grieser (yuf_at_phoenixdsl.com) for all the work in testing the communication with the Garmin 12Map.
• Luísa Bastos (Universidade do Porto), Gil Gonçalves (Universidade de Coimbra), José Alberto Gonçalves (Universidade do Porto) and Sérgio Cunha (Universidade do Porto) for their help with geodetic formulae and information.
• Marko Hyvärinen (mth_at_sun3.oulu.fi) for testing the communication with the Garmin 12CX.
• Martin Ostermann (Aachen University of Technology) who contributed code for converting waypoint information in MapBlast HTML format into GPSMan format.
• Max Spring (mspring_at_cisco.com) for testing the communication with the Garmin eTrex Mariner.
• Niki Hammler (http://www.nobaq.net) who wrote a Perl script for reading waypoints data in Fugawi export format.
• Odilon Ferreira (www.gpstm.com), the author of GPS-TrackMaker, who kindly provided information on the file formats and datums used by his program.
• Peter H. Dana (University of Texas) who provided help in correcting bugs in the conversion of UTM/UPS coordinates and information on map projections.
• Povl H. Pedersen (pope_at_my.terminal.dk) who corrected a bug in the implementation of the Garmin protocol.
• Rob Buitenhuis (rob_at_buitenhs.demon.nl) who contributed the support for Dutch, the definition of the Netherlands grid and helped in debugging.
• Rogério Reis (Universidade do Porto) for an algorithm for simplifying tracks, for his ideas on the interface functionality, help in debugging and his work on creating and maintaining a Linux Debian GPSMan package.
• Rolf Hatt (rolf_at_hatt.com) who tested the communication with the Garmin GPSMAP 180.
• Sabine Broda (Universidade do Porto) for her help with German translations.
• Stefan Heinen (stefan.heinen_at_djh-freeweb.de) who tested the communication with the Garmin eTrex Summit, contributed new data structures for datums and the procedure to access them, and for his suggestions.
• Thomas Trauber for testing the communication with the Garmin eTrex receiver.
• Valère Robin (valere.robin_at_wanadoo.fr) who contributed the support for French and for his suggestions.
• Wolfgang Rupprecht, Tony Mollica, Andrey Semiuglov, Ron Thomas, John Madore, Kevin Geiss, Russell Senior, Urs Forster, Scot E. Wilcoxon, David Fletcher, Dragan Milicic, Anto Veldre, and Slaven Rezic for their help in detecting and tracking down bugs and for their suggestions.

GPSMan User Manual
©Miguel Filgueiras, mig_at_ncc.up.pt, DCC-FC & LIACC, Universidade do Porto, 2002

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