[OSM-talk] Garmin USB on Windows

[Karl Newman]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A friend has bought a Garmin GPS 60 and would like to download tracks
> from it for OSM.
>
> They use a Windows PC and, unfortunately, it's an employer's "managed
> laptop" so they can't install stuff on it - like the Garmin drivers.
>
> Is there any way to download tracks from a USB Garmin on Windows
> without installing the drivers? GPSbabel will in principle run off a
> removable drive, but unfortunately seems to complain about the
> missing Garmin drivers. (This seems a bit weird given that it works
> fine on the Mac without installing any drivers.)
>
> cheers
> Richard
>

If it's a 60Cx or 60CSx, then you can configure it to log tracks to the
MicroSD card. Once that's set up, you can put the device into USB mass
storage mode and it will show up as a drive (assuming THOSE drivers work) or
use an external MicroSD card reader that has had the drivers installed. Then
you can just open the drive and copy the GPX files (there will be one file
per day).

Karl
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