Re: Garmin API released

In article <1hz1fiz.1nyosbjir9opoN%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Maine
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Out of curiosity, why don't you like to connect over USB? In my
use, the only differences I've noticed between USB and the serial
connection on my old one are that the USB is vastly faster and it
doesn't require a serial-to-USB adapter.

For me, the answer was because the Garmin USB doesn't work under Virtual
PC, at least it didn't last time I tried it. Ok, that was a while ago,
and yes, it was Virtual PC, that being a G4 laptop.

that is only true for virtual pc under os x. surprisingly, virtual pc
*will* work with garmin usb if it is run under os 9.

i used an old g3 mac and found that because it was so old and slow,
building the map set took longer than transferring it via serial on my
powerbook g4. i'm sure a more recent os 9 capable mac would have been
better, but probably not by a whole lot. however, simple stuff like
transferring routes or waypoints will work fine over usb, but there are
tools to do that in os x already so there's no real benefit.

I'm not sure whether the same problems would
be anticipated with Parallels... but then USB support in Parallels was a
weak point anyway, at least in the early Parallels releases.

vmware has better usb support than parallels.

The serial-USB thing was quite a Rube Goldberg hack. Here I had (and
still have) a Garmin GPSMAP 76CS with bot USB and serial ports. My Mac
had only USB - no serial. But to make it actually work, I had to use the
serial port on the Garmin, via a Keyspan serial-USB adaptor. Ugly, and
required a bunch of cabling strewn all over, but it worked and was the
only way I ever managed to make things like MapSource and NRoute work
with my PowerBook. It did work. But it was painfully slow on things like
uploading maps.

it is definitely a pain, but it does work.
.

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