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

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