posible after market gps reciever with garmen software

dennyreedjr · 02-18-2005, 03:19 PM

is it possible to use aftermarket usb gps receiver with garmens gps software. my brother has maps and software for use with his hand held magellen, i was wondering how to get my gps receiver to work with this software. im using a navman 100 usb receiver. it came with rand mcnally streets and trips software wich sucks *** i might add. i can get my cordinants in the garmen soft ware but after a few feet of tracking it stops tracking and in order to retrieve new cordinants i need to shut down the program and restart it. any help would be greatly appricieated.

oh yeah it seams to be a problem with the garmen software cause i can start the rand mcnally crap and it will still be working fine so i know its not the reciever losing gps lock

dennyreedjr · 01-23-2006, 05:25 AM

ttt

DarquePervert · 01-23-2006, 07:23 AM

Wow. Bump after nearly a year?!?!?!?!

If I'm not mistaken, your Navman will only work with the Garmin software.
Look into an NMEA-compliant GPS.

dennyreedjr · 01-24-2006, 06:56 PM

i thought it was nmea complient ill have to check yeah i havent messed with it in a year lol

e30_droptop · 01-25-2006, 12:02 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by dennyreedjr

i thought it was nmea complient ill have to check yeah i havent messed with it in a year lol

Now there is one patient person! Waits a year so that he is not flamed with messages stating that he is a N00B! LOL

Hope you find your answer.

RS200Z · 02-01-2006, 09:42 PM

Yes, it can be done. You will need this great utility called GPSProxyPC which translate NMEA into Garmin compatible commands and response.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpsproxy/

There are 2 versions. One for PPC (PDAs) and the other is the PC version.
I got nRoute running on my PC with a SiRF Star III GPS.

dennyreedjr · 02-01-2006, 11:21 PM

sweet thanx

SnyperBob · 02-02-2006, 05:14 AM

Could you post please here if you get it to work - this is very interesting.

dennyreedjr · 02-02-2006, 12:49 PM

yes i will i dont have time to mess with it for a few days but as soon as i find out if its gonna work ill post up however RS200Z says it will

edikp · 02-02-2006, 01:12 PM

@SnyperBob: Hopefully patience is your virtue since it took him one year to revisit this project.

RS200Z · 02-02-2006, 07:40 PM

Here's a posting from the author himself. Read to find out more about this s/w and its features. You can also post your questions here.

http://forum.bargainpda.com/showthread.php?t=9980

dennyreedjr · 02-03-2006, 03:28 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by edikp

@SnyperBob: Hopefully patience is your virtue since it took him one year to revisit this project.

its my virtue lol