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Getting favorites and other user data out of Magellan Maestro 4040
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| I bought a Maestro 4040 at Costco a few weeks ago and have been very
happy with it until now.
I used it on a road trip and marked some hard to find locations for
genealogy purposes. I saved the locations as 'favorites' but did not
write down the coordinates when I was there.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to get these locations (latitude and
longitude) into a database, preferably some standard format that I can
use with mapping software. I want to get it into a format that does
NOT depend on Magellan.
I called tech support for Magellan and they told me there is no way to
download any data from this GPS to a computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated here.
As an aside, locking up user data is something that I have come to
despise in 25 years as a technology professional.
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| Happy Traveler 2007-10-27, 10:33 pm |
| Running 'backup' you can copy all this information into an SD card.
Unfortunately only the name you gave is in ASCII, followed by some
proprietary format. Doesn't look to me as an attempt to hide anything; more
likely just efficient packing, to save memory. Someone can reverse-engineer
this thing, for sure. If it's any help, the unit runs on Windows CE.
"Paul" <beemindful@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1193272145.977684.48830@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>I bought a Maestro 4040 at Costco a few weeks ago and have been very
> happy with it until now.
>
> I used it on a road trip and marked some hard to find locations for
> genealogy purposes. I saved the locations as 'favorites' but did not
> write down the coordinates when I was there.
>
> Now I'm trying to figure out how to get these locations (latitude and
> longitude) into a database, preferably some standard format that I can
> use with mapping software. I want to get it into a format that does
> NOT depend on Magellan.
>
> I called tech support for Magellan and they told me there is no way to
> download any data from this GPS to a computer.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated here.
>
> As an aside, locking up user data is something that I have come to
> despise in 25 years as a technology professional.
>
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