Re: DeLorme TopoUSA 4 Upload/Download from Garmin Vista

From: Jack Erbes (jackerbes_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 07:36:46 -0500

ordbkr@yahoo.com wrote:

> I am trying to get TopoUSA 4 to talk to me new Garmin Vista using the
> Garmin serial cable.
>
> I can see data streaming from the Vista using HyperTerminal when the
> Vista is set to NMEA In/NMEA Out. TopoUSA also seems to see the Vista
> when I start the GPS tracking.
>
> So far I can't get data from TopoUSA to the Vista or from the Vista
> into TopoUSA.
>
> The Vista is set to WGS84 datum and the Serial Data Format is set to
> Garmin. The serial port settings are 4800,N,8,1.
>
> The Garmin and DeLorme web sites haven't been helpful.
>
> Anyone have experience with either of these items that can provide some
> advice?
>

A couple of older Garmin's I worked with had to have the NMEA mode set
to the "Garmn/Garmn" mode or something similar to that to upload and
download data. Or so I seem to recall. The help file in TopoUSA should
spell out the procedures if you have not looked at that.

Jack 

-- 
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

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