Mapping Hacks

We wrote about Garnix in _Mapping Hacks_. It is a command line tool written by Anton Helm to communicate with Garmin GPS units. It will run under DOS 5.0, various Windows versions, Macintosh, and Linux.
It was the first tool I used to communicate with a GPS.
The new version is here.
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I received an email me asking if there was a way to get a latitude and longitude from a number which his ERP calls a ‘Geocode.’
Forgive my confusion, since I thought the whole point of ‘geocoding’ was to get coordinates, or a code of some sort, which would let you specify the location of something […]