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connecting gps to laptop
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:01 am
by botty
Help needed have a dell latitude C800 laptop in car connected to garmin gps 12. The laptop already has discover aus installed but the gps wont interface with the laptop. I want to be able to download waypoints from the gps to laptop does anyone know if i can do it with this setup or do i need different software any help appreciated
botty
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:21 am
by chunkz
how does your gps connect to thew laptop?
through a cable or blue tooth?
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:56 am
by MYTTUF
I thought that Discover Aus was primarily a program for Magellion GPS's??
The communication/language may be causing you some issuues.
Try using OziExplorer as it works with Garmin and I believe is a better program after using both.
Jonesy
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:17 am
by GUJohnno
You can have problems conecting it with the laptop if you don't have a serial port. I have a serial to USB adapter but it doesn't work too well. I find using the GPS 'mouse's' seem to work the best via USB. They cost less than $100 through EBAY.
OziExplorer seems to be the best program to run. Quite cheap for what you get. We used this in the Navrun series last year and it went very well.