Both are good as a sort of go-between between GPSGate and your serial-only GPS application, though the GPSGate seems to work for this fine by itself. GPSGate seemed to work fine on everything I tried it on – including an older version of MS Streets & Trips as well as the excellent radio mapping program RMWDLX.Ī few good helper programs are the free Earth Bridge and the free version of GooPS (there’s also a pay version with more options). No luck with mine, stuck with GPSGate for now. It’s made for particular models of Garmin GPS’es but the rumor was that it worked with many other Garmin GPS’es also. I gave a free program from Garmin called Spanner a try, which is supposed to do the same thing.
GPSMAPEDIT BOOKMARKS SERIAL
This is a shareware program with a 14 day expiration date that creates virtual serial ports from USB connections.īut there must be a freeware or Opensource driver or program that does the same somewhere – something that takes a USB port and makes some virtual serial ports for other programs to use? If anyone knows of one drop me a line so I can post the link, and try it out.
GPSMAPEDIT BOOKMARKS PLUS
Throw in Google Earth and other programs that SHOULD have GPS interfaces but don’t (Google Earth Plus does, but not regular free Google Earth)…įortunately there are ways around that for both.įor example – Franson GPSgate. I did discover that there are a number of mapping programs that assume the GPS that is connected to the computer uses a serial port, instead of a more ‘modern’ USB. Right now, I’m still just learning the in’s and out’s of the device, and learning a lot more about mapping and vector maps and converting everything to Garmin format.
Yesterday I used the road navigation features, both out in the boonies as well as in the village of Gouverneur. Good little unit, of course if you are looking for something for road navigating it can be used for that, sure but it is more geared toward your outdoor activities. Really enjoying this Garmin eTrex Venture HC, and with nicer weather on its way it’s time to get back into GPS’ing and mapping with it.
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