Delorme mapping software

[pentium]

When I spent $5 on a Delorme Earthmate (the old serial version) I neglected to see if it was NMEA compatible. Turns out that it's not and thus will not work with my copy of Streets and Trips. I have an ancient version of Street Atlas which was also made by Delorme but it's so old that it does not support the Earthmate and according to the map, the northern edge of the planed is at the US-canada border. I'm looking around and I do see newer versions of Street Atlas but they mostly require you to own a DVD drive which is a problem for me as I want to load it onto my toughbook which is not only limited on space but also lacks any sort of way to connect a DVD drive so I need to find out which was their last release that was released on CD. Streets and Trips was released on cds as recently as 2003 (that's my version) but what about Street Atlas? If serial/PCMCIA GPS receivers were cheaper I would just go and get an NMEA compatible one for Streets and Trips and toss this receiver out.

[pentium]

Re: Delorme mapping software

Stupid editing time limit.
Anyways, it seems that there is an adpater that connects inline with the serial cable and converts the Rockwell Binary Format which this GPS uses to the standard NMEA-0183 V2.0 format which Streets and Trips is happy with. It's sold by BYONICS as the GST-1 and costs $37. Well that does not seem too bad but I wonder if I should ask my dad for it for christmas.

[zandrax]

Re: Delorme mapping software

If you dont want to spend $37 + shipping on a protocol adapter, look for another serial GPS receiver: ebay can't help now because the only one is a Mitac MGS-110 from Australia

Zandrax

[willawake]

Re: Delorme mapping software

serial seems difficult to find
if you can use usb go for Globalsat BU-353 i am gonna get one of these, supposed to be good

[pentium]

Re: Delorme mapping software

If I needed a USB adapter I would be more willing to spend more however because this is for one of my CF-25 thoughbooks which lack USB support (and I bet you the damn BIOS won't accept 99% of the USB PCMCIA cards out there) I can't use one and to my luck my trusty Garmin GPS 45 stopped working (won't detect any satellites anymore) a few months ago.