[Public-list] gps questions

[jon]

I was "given" a copy of Capn Voyager and it came with a set of scanned real 
charts of Vancouver Island. Works like a damn. The thing I like is the 
actual charts which I trust more than private company charts. No idea where 
they came from. Probably Coastguard. I use a handheld Garmin with my Desk 
computer for inputting waypoints. When I get a laptop I will take it aboard 
and use it there. NOTHING, however will replace a chart and instruments! 
Jonathan.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Bergquist" <jbergqui at gmail.com>
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at alberg30.org>; 
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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: [Public-list] gps questions


> Hi Folks,
>
> Got a couple of GPS questions.
>
> I have 2 handheld GPS units. Both are Garmin. One is a GPS II Plus, the
> other is a GPSMAP 12. Both are now out of production.
>
> I also have an NMEA interface cable with which I can plug the GPS units 
> into
> a serial port on my computer.
>
> My question is what do other folks do for routing software? I would like 
> to
> be able to set up routes on my computer using some kind of whiz-bang 
> mapping
> software that lets me go click-click-click to define a route, then upload 
> it
> into my GPS and be ready to shove off. Has anybody set this up?
>
> Currently what I do (and what I have done whenever I did this in the past)
> is I look at the paper chart and type in waypoint co-ordinates to the GPS
> itself directly, but its user interface is not so good, and it takes me a
> long time to do this. Which means I usually don't do it, but I think it
> would be good if I did do it.
>
> I'm feeling a bit GPS-impaired. Hope somebody out there can make some
> recommendation as to what software is good, where I can get it, etc. I 
> have
> got to believe that there is a better way to do this than what I am doing
> now.
>
> Later,
>
> J Bergquist
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