[OSM-newbies] GPS tracks in realtime on laptop?

[Chris Hunter]

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 <chunter952 at gmail.com> 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 <Jeff at wb6csv.net> wrote:
>
>> Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com>  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
>>
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