On 09/06/18 06:47, Eric Bradshaw wrote: > My trusty Garmin just bit the dust about a week ago now. I had purchased it > for $5 at a garage sale many years ago. I used Open Street Map maps on it, > but had to limit the data as the HDD wasn't very big. I also enjoyed using > different "vehicles" like R2D2, the Starship Enterprise and the Mystery > Machine. My wife like the giant beach ball and a pair of flip flops. > > Non of those things are particularly important for my replacement; I just > want it to work with Lubuntu, as did the former Garmin. It opened like an > extra HDD and it was easy to use PCManFM to replace/update the map(s) and add > "vehicles." > > I had a TomTom (my wife paid retail for) several years before the Garmin, but > I seem to recall it was *not* easy to work with on Lubuntu. Maybe I'm > mis-remembering and/or maybe it's gotten better. > > Anyway, I'm hoping to get opinions on pros and cons of Garmins, TomToms or > any other dedicated GPS out there (not at all interested in using my phone > for this purpose) to that will/can work with Lubuntu, how easy it is, maybe > how >
Eric, My wife has a Garmin 50LM. It connects to my Lubuntu 18.04 and opens as a normal USB storage drive, allowing access to all the folders. As it's my wife's sat-nav I cannot check to see if swapping out the maps or vehicles will work with this model. Barry T -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
