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Another thing for me to try at some point. So I assume you could make your own custom icons and put them on the GPS. Supposedly you could change the startup screen, etc.īut the other interesting thing is that you can also download and upload the POI icons, individually. This basically lets you do a screen capture from your Garmin GPS. Here’s a screenshot:Ĭool little program from Garmin called ‘ ximage‘. Google Earth is amazing when using the above programs. I imagine using the live waypoint files from the GPSBabel program would allow programs like WorldWind to work with a GPS too, in real-time? I could be wrong, but is on my list of things to try.
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Though I found that you could get around this by making Mapsource use a serial port instead, but why would you want to?Īnother program I want to try is the new GPSBabelGUI which now interfaces directly with GPS receivers and can output any kind of file, including KML files that Google Earth uses. In other words – you can’t use the Garmin Mapsource program while GPSGate is running.
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So the virtual serial port wasn’t needed for it after all, though it worked fine.Īnd in USAPhotoMaps it actually works better with the virtual serial port then the native built-in USAPhotoMaps Garmin USB setup, at least for me.Īlso, GPSGate has to be shut down before you can use any program that will use the Garmin USB drivers themselves.
With ExpertGPS I did discover there was a trick to using this program with the built-in USB option instead of serial – you have to pick the “C” version of your particular Garmin GPS. I’ve yet to try Netstumbler though, but I assume it will also (if it doesn’t already have a USB option). I haven’t found one thing that doesn’t work. So far the free EasyGPS (freeware), Topofusion (shareware), Quakemap (shareware), MS Streets & Maps 2002, ExpertGPS (shareware), Google Earth, & USAPhotoMaps (highly recommended freeware) all work fine.
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Of course, ideally the GPS mapping and waypoint programs themselves would be upgraded so that the regular Garmin USB driver would work, instead of relying on using serial ports but that’s not always the case. 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. 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.
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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.