Re: Delorme SA2006 vs MS Streets and Trips 2006


"Ben Hogland" <benhogland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Dan Lawyer" <dlawyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Tom's right Will. Basically what it does is give you 4 virtual ports that
>> can talk to the GPS. You decide what port you want to use with what
>> application. If it gives you ports 3-6, then you can assign port 3 to
>> DeLorme, port 4 to S&T, etc.... You can run all the programs and swap
>> between them. It should work with any NMEA compliant GPS.
>>
>> Now, just know that if your running multiple software, tracking with a
>> GPS, doing logs, etc...you need to have the computer resources to handle
>> it. SA2006 has a new really slick auto zoom in to turn feature that
>> gradually zooms you in as you approach the turn, then back out as you
>> leave. Because this causes many screen refreshes as it zooms in (they are
>> instant), it also causes the GPS to stay very well centered in the screen
>> thru turns, which was a problem without this feature.
>
> Dan,
>
> Well, for some reason, I can't get the utility to work for me. I installed
> it, set up a virtual come port. It sees my Deluo NEMA compliant GPS, but
> when I set the SA 2006 to a virtual port, no worky-worky. Same with S&T,
> it doesn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled the utility.. H'mm.. Any
> hints what might be happening?
>
> Ben
>

I know these drivers were designed for the DeLorme LT-20 and USB Earthmate,
and the write-up on the website doesn't specifically say that 3rd party GPS
units won't work, so I suspect they will as long as they are NMEA compliant.
I also think I remember hearing in the forums that others were using them
with other GPS units.

The utility will only list the com ports available to it.
If you set the utility to say....
com 3 = Street Atlas (in SA set the port to com3)
com 4 - Streets&Trips (in S&T set the port to com4)
There are three com ports available, I said four earlier.

I'm currently not using this utility, but I do know that S&T 2005 and
earlier, only worked with com ports set to 4800 baud. Normally a new com
port defaults to 9600 baud, so it needs to be changed in device manager. I'm
pretty sure these show up in device manager if the utility is running, but I
don't remember if they are updatable or not. This was in the first USB to
Serial drivers that DeLorme put out.

Dan


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