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Garmin 48 with notebook as navigator.
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| Hello All,
I have a Garmin 48 with serial and usb cable, i have from my work a new
Toshiba Satellite U200 notebook.
This can be the basic of a car nav system or do i think wrong.
Anyone know what program i can use to get it working and is there anyone who
has experience with something like this?
Thanks and regards, Rodo
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| Jack Erbes 2007-02-08, 3:33 pm |
| Rodo wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have a Garmin 48 with serial and usb cable, i have from my work a new
> Toshiba Satellite U200 notebook.
> This can be the basic of a car nav system or do i think wrong.
> Anyone know what program i can use to get it working and is there anyone who
> has experience with something like this?
>
> Thanks and regards, Rodo
The 48 could be used to provide NMEA data to a navigation program on the
laptop. A Garmin program for the laptop (for the U.S.) would be
MetroGuide North America and would be used in conjunction with the free
Garmin nRoute software.
A much cheaper software that would probably work just as well is
Micro$oft Streets & Trips 2007 (don't buy the locater, just the software).
The 48 may be able to connect to the laptop by USB (I'm not sure of the
USB compatibility on the older Garmins). If it can't be used by USB,
you could use the serial cable with a serial to USB adapter. I am
assuming that your new laptop does not have a hardware serial (COM) port.
Jack
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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
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| Thanks for the info Jack.
It is a little help, i'm based in Denmark (Europe). The progs you mentioned
are specific for the USA i guess.
Rodo
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> Rodo wrote:
>
> The 48 could be used to provide NMEA data to a navigation program on the
> laptop. A Garmin program for the laptop (for the U.S.) would be
> MetroGuide North America and would be used in conjunction with the free
> Garmin nRoute software.
>
> A much cheaper software that would probably work just as well is Micro$oft
> Streets & Trips 2007 (don't buy the locater, just the software).
>
> The 48 may be able to connect to the laptop by USB (I'm not sure of the
> USB compatibility on the older Garmins). If it can't be used by USB, you
> could use the serial cable with a serial to USB adapter. I am assuming
> that your new laptop does not have a hardware serial (COM) port.
>
> Jack
>
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> Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
> (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
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| Jack Erbes 2007-02-08, 10:33 pm |
| Rodo wrote:
> Thanks for the info Jack.
> It is a little help, i'm based in Denmark (Europe). The progs you mentioned
> are specific for the USA i guess.
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> Rodo
Denmark, you lucky guy! You have better beer and Tivoli too.
If you have a European version of one of the Garmin MapSource mapping
products you can use nRoute with that.
M$ Streets & Trips is U.S. only but there is a M$ Autoroute Europe 2007
that covers some or all of the EU. I'm not sure how much it covers or
how good it is. Maybe someone here can give us an opinion on Autoroute.
Autoroute Europe 2007 can be bought from about $40 over here. Here are
some details on it from Amazon:
http://tinyurl.com/2anqbx
We get a better deal and good data on our mapping products over here
because the government puts the data in the public domain. The general
public pays the costs of getting the data in their taxes so they let us
have it for free. Very few other governments are that generous with
their data.
The free data gets vectorized, embellished, and then companies like
Garmin package it in proprietary format and sell it to us. We complain
bitterly about the cost but the mapping for other countries is much more
expensive.
Its a good idea to look at the MapSource mapping in the online Mapsource
Map Viewer before you buy it. People are often disappointed with the
amount of detail they get, especially on some of the European areas.
You can look at MetroGuide Europe here:
http://www.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/MGEuro.jsp
If you want something smaller, simpler, faster, and with much better
signal sensitivity GPS 48, look at the Holux GR-213 cabled USB GPS
receiver.
Jack
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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
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