There are plenty of freeware maps out there from GPS File Depot, and many others, that will load under Mapsource. Most Garmin hand-helds came with Mapsource, unless you got one separate. Nevertheless drivers need to be loaded, no version of windows seems to have them integrated.Īs someone already mentioned, EasyGPS is free (as in free as air, unless you go to one of those gas stations that now have the coin-operated air pump, then Skip this description.) I have an FTDI cable myself and never had problems using it with garmin devices. under the "Ports (COM&LPT)" section, can you see an "USB Serial Port (Com. With the cable connected, are you seeing any "unknown devices" in the Windows device manager? If not. What version of windows are you running? In any case you probably need to load drivers for the cable for it to work. Unfortunately not all USB->Serial cables work well with newer operating systems. What I call "legacy devices" would essentially be the pre 2007 stuff or so, which generally have a serial port instead of USB.ģ. "Free as in beer" means the software isn't charged for but the source code is closed, when it comes to GNU/open source the source code is available for anyone to edit. It's just a lame analogy made by programmers. My GPS is one of the Garmin 'serial' units as pictured below:ġ. I'll give the Garmin Mapsource a try.Īlso not sure what you mean by legacy devices. Not sure what you mean by "free as in beer" and GNU/open source.
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