Re: Streets & Trips - no USB GPS support help

S&T requires a GPS that LOOKS LIKE it's on a serial port.

The MS "USB" GPS

A. Does NMEA.
B. Looks like a serial GPS because it has a built-in serial to GPS
converter. It shows up as COMsomething.


<birch999@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:42d8bbaf.12753921@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 Pink Floyd <pfloydnope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>OK, maybe something got lost in the thread.
>>My laptop does not have a serial port.
>
> Then why would you want a USB to serial converter? You can't buy a
> laptop with a DB9 serial port these days.
>
>>S&T requires one to communicate with my GPSmap 60c.
>
> Dunno why. S&T works with other USB GPS receivers; and that's what they
> include in their S&T GPS package.


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