BTW, Garmin's MapSource software with the US Interstate basemap is still a free download, but it's geared more towards trip planning/review and POI management, so it doesn't do realtime.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Chris Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure what Charlotte is talking about with here, but I've had a > 60Csx for about a year now and it's pretty easy to connect to a laptop. > > Andy: What is your end goal of having the GPS track on your laptop w/o > realtime internet access? If you're wanting to correct OSM data on the fly, > use JOSM with GPSBabel and Surveyor plugins (you'll need to install GPSBabel > BTW). If you want to display your location against any map (OSM or > Garmin's), download and install the Garmin nRoute software from the web. If > it's no longer on Garmin's site (which would shock me), I'm pretty sure I > have a copy of the installer on my machine. > > Chris Hunter > (OSM userID DiverCTH) > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Jeff Barlow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Doesn't Garmin have its own map line? Don't they work in >> >real time with the receiver? >> >> The older versions did. They disabled that functionality in the >> newer ones. They want to sell you higher priced proprietary >> hardware instead. It's a good reason to avoid Garmin as far as >> I'm concerned. >> >> -- >> Later, >> Jeff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> newbies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >> > >
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