Re: Garmin 76c Help

From: SiN Daddy (Nospam_at_No.spam)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:01:21 GMT

"Roy" <roybassist@yahoo.com> wrote in news:38bnbqF5lvnv4U1@individual.net:

> "SiNDaddy" <say.no@to.spam> wrote in message
> news:Xns96091D85AF52ENospamplz@207.69.189.191...
>> Is there a way i can get street and trips to work with my garmin 76c?
>> and
>> is city select pretty much like street and trips? thanks
>
> That depends on what you mean by "work with." If you mean loading maps
> from Streets & Trips into the 76C: no. The only maps that you can load
> into your receiver are those made by Garmin, or homemade maps that
> comply with Garmin's format. Making your own maps is not easy. It
> isn't as simple as scanning an image. If you are interested in that,
> there are groups devoted to map authoring that you may want to look
> into. Sorry, but since I don't have time for another hobby, I don't
> have any more information on that.
>
> If by "work with" you mean plugging your 76C into a laptop computer
> running Streets & Trips and have it show your current position, Streets
> & Trips has the capability to do this, though I don't know specifically
> about compatibility with the 76C.
>

Apologize for mot being clear, what I want to do with my garmin is to sync
it with street & trip, the problem with my garmin is that it doesn't use
the NMEA protocol when using the USB cord that was provided (its uses the
"garmin" protocol), my only choice here is to buy a serial cable and find a
way to hook it up with my laptop (which doesn't have any serial port).

So I was hoping someone might shed so light on this and have a work around,
like a plugin for street and trip that allows it to read the garmin
protocol.

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