software for garmin gps
Submitted: Thursday, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:09
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gqmav
wondering if anyone could tell me what sofware is available to be
uploaded from a laptop to a garmin legend other than the mapsource by
garmin
thanks
gqmav
Reply By: Member - Clive G (WA) - Thursday, Dec 02, 2004 at 15:22
Thursday, Dec 02, 2004 at 15:22
I recently upgraded to a megallen meridian gold from a garmin etrex lengend, the only software you can use to upload mapping is mapsource for the garmin, oziexplorer is great but you cant upload mapping , The etrex is a great little toy, but you will never get the detailed mapping as you would with a magellan meriadian.
I always used oziexplorer, laptop hooked up to gps, using moving maps, with my legend, I found that to be more detailed then gps on its own,
Clive
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Reply By: Pluto - Sunday, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:30
Sunday, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:30
gqmav,
When you refer to "software", what do you realy mean? Are you talking about:
GPS firmware. ie. upgrades Only available from Garmin
digital maps. Only downloadable from MapSource.
GPS navigation data? ie. waypoints routes tracks etc. There are heaps of programs that can be used to manage and download this stuff. Your other replies have already detailed the common ones.
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Reply By: BurnieM - Monday, Dec 06, 2004 at 20:52
Monday, Dec 06, 2004 at 20:52
There are a number of third party utilities that will let you up and download waypoints, routes and tracklogs to Garmin GPS receivers.
However, if you want to load maps to a Garmin GPS then Garmins Mapsource is recommended.
There is a third party utility that will let you create maps to be loaded to Garmin GPS receivers - 'GPSmapper'.
It comes with a load utility called 'Sendmap'.
Somebody else has written a graphical front end for it called 'Mapedit'.
Expect to spend hundreds of hours to create a usable map.
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