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GPS Map software?

#1 Post by Tactmedic »

which do you use? don't know if Panasonic offered one or if you guys use another. Free would best but open to check out others :read:
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off road or on road?

I use Garmin mobile PC.
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Shawn wrote:off road or on road?

I use Garmin mobile PC.
I guess on road is best, thanks! Did you pay for that or free download?
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#4 Post by Shawn »

I actually paid for it. It's discontinued, but I found a copy on the bay. It had a valid serial but did not want to activate. Garmin probably shut down the server. So I used an "alternative" method. Toshiba had it on some of their notebooks. There is a downloadable Toshiba version if you seek....
I even paid for the updated maps...
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#5 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

For topographic maps and W7 (XP) look at USAPhotomaps. Saves tiles to your pc. Free. JDMCox. Can be run in .wine on a Linux box, if you know the set-up. Linux doesn't use com ports per se so ya have to fake it out.

FoxtrotGPS for Linux. Uses open source maps.....and will save to your pc.
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#7 Post by ADOR »

I have a older copy of Delorme TOPO 7.0, streets and trips 2010 and 2005, Navagator. navagator is free and cross platform. I downloaded the USA maps free and did some testing around the house on a android tablet and it worked well. Haven't tried the windows version yet.
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#8 Post by cheap4tw »

I use my CF-19 as an offroad GPS. I currently have Streets and Trips 2013, Delorme Street version and topo, Garmin mobilepc and nroute, and a few tile based gps programs.

For offroading using topo maps I found using nroute to be the best with topo maps. I'm from Canada so I found the backroad mapbooks maps to be the best, followed by Ibycus free maps, and finally the garmin maps.

For on road I found Streets and Trips to have the best features but I like the look of mobilepc as it looks like a normal incar gps.

Also look into a program called gpsgateway, it allows you to use an gps receiver with multiple programs at once.

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#9 Post by mklym »

Where did you get the Backroad Mapbooks maps? You use them with Nroute? Have you checked out/tried Fugawi for topo?
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#10 Post by cheap4tw »

Have to pay for the Backroad Mapbooks, never found an alternative for them. I have a copy for one Province and the quality of the maps is great.

I have tried Fugawi but it's a bit of a different animal then nroute.

Oh you may have to convert your backroad mapbook maps for nroute to see them.

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