RR gps program with Australian maps??

**thwack** · 11-21-2008, 08:35 PM

I can confirm that Garmin Mobile PC does work with, Garmin City Navigator 2008 (Australian Maps). It works really well and supports GPS's other that Garmin units, unlike nRoute which only worked with the garmin protocol, Mobile pc works with standard NMEA devices.

There will be updates to the Garmin maps as these are the same maps for all of the Garmin Standalone devices.

Garmin Mobile PC can be embedded in RR using the overlay plugin and OSK available here.

From my experience anything that runs Destinator v3 maps is not useful in Aus anymore as the maps are 2005 maps with data from 2003-4. There are a significant number of major roads that do not appear. I run OziExplorer as well as Garmin as they both serve different purposes.

Cheers
Thwack

**meddler** · 11-22-2008, 03:51 AM

There are later maps than the 2005 maps. I think the last one was 2007Q2

**thwack** · 11-22-2008, 04:08 AM

The Destinator 2007 maps will work with Destinator v5 and above NOT Destinator 3 which Freedrive and MapMonkey work. There have been several methods to "make" these maps work with Destinator 3 but they do not always work.

If you purchase Centrafuse, you will get a runtime version of Destinator v7 and the latest maps. But they will still not work with Destinator v3!!

**Kosti** · 11-22-2008, 07:05 PM

D7 doesn't have as much of a POI compared to D6 & it's not bad to start off with, Garmin "GMPC" ver 5 is a better layout IMHO, Sygic is crap at routing and I've never bothered with TOMTOM.

These ALL intergrate well in RR, but you will need to make certain adjustments to get it right, for example GMPC you will need an OSK if u don't use a keyboard with ur carpc.

BTW, welcome to the forums

**MitchellO** · 11-22-2008, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by meddler

There are PDA emulators. You may even be able to get tom tom working in RR, but I don't know of anyone who has done it.

TomTom in Microsoft Device Emulator (Windows Mobile 5) works brilliantly

**Moby58** · 11-23-2008, 12:19 AM

k, thanks for all that.
Got Garmin Mobile PC working in it. Just waiting for my USB GPS ta turn up, then can see how it compares to TomTom on my HTC TyTn II