Memorymap / Palm

[+patanddave]

Does anyone know if Memory Map can be used on a Palm Tungsten T?

Pat

Edited November 28, 2005 by patanddave

[+Nellies Knackers]

No, it only works with ppc's but there are ways of calibrating MM screenshots for use with other palm mapping software, downside is maps are fairly small area(screen size) but it does work.

I have been using pathaway on the palm in a few experiments with good sucsess.

[+patanddave]

Thanks for your fast response, I will probably just put it on my Garmin Legend.

Pat

[+Pharisee]

Thanks for your fast response, I will probably just put it on my Garmin Legend.

Pat

Sorry.... MemoryMap won't go on your Legend either

[+Nellies Knackers]

You've got three choices on the legend, mapsource,mapsource,or mapsource!

Sorry to ruin your day.

[+patanddave]

If I upgrade my GPS to one with a bigger screen which will accept Memory Map which one would you recommend, it must be handheld, bike handlebar mountable, take 2XAA batteries and be easy to use?

Pat

[+Moote]

Memory Map will only run on a Pocket PC so the choice is PPC

 

Milton (aka Moote)

[+Nellies Knackers]

Didn't some maggelan's accept memory map stuff?

[+Moote]

Didn't some maggelan's accept memory map stuff?

I thought that they had there own OS mapping, I know the Garmin PPC PDA will accept it, but you might as well just buy a MITAC Mio168 (£180) and save £300 on the Garmin PDA cost

 

Milton (aka Moote)

Edited November 28, 2005 by Moote

[+Pharisee]

MemoryMap will run on the Garmin M5 but that's more of a PDA and not cheap.

Edited November 28, 2005 by Pharisee

[+patanddave]

Thanks for the responses, will Cachemate operate as easily on a PPC as it does on the Palm?

Pat

[+Pharisee]

....will Cachemate operate as easily on a PPC as it does on the Palm?

No

[+Learned Gerbil]

Fugawi will run on a Palm and PPC. The maps are 1:50,000 OS and work out much cheaper than MM. However, the software is not as user friendly as MM and the Palm application runs very slowely on slow Palms (but your's should be OK).

[+patanddave]

Thanks for that, I have just bought Memory Map full UK v 5, standard version for £139.99 on Ebay it seems to be a bargain and I am assured that it is genuine. It will get a lot of use.

 

I will now look for my home area Fugawi maps for the Palm as Cachemate is running a dream on it and I want to keep it that way.

Pat

[+Pharisee]

I use CacheMate on a Palm (Garmin iQue 3600) and I have MemoryMap installed on my home PC. To be honest, I've never considered MM on a PDA to be essential for caching (nice but not essential). I use it at home to plan caches, routes and parking places and occasionally, to print off a map section. In the field, my Garmin Legend has led me to nearly 1100 caches and I have no plans to change or upgrade to anything else in the foreseeable future.

 

KISS works for me

[+naviguesser74]

I am looking to do on my Palm what is advertised for MapAdvisor. Anyone have any ideas?

[+Nellies Knackers]

Any idea how good their maps are?

[+patanddave]

Fugawi Maps and Palm - has anyone any experience of this mapping software on a Palm?

Once the application is loaded on to the Palm and the maps are loaded on to a SD card, using a card reader, how do you access the maps from the card?

Edited December 10, 2005 by patanddave

[+dino-irl]

Any idea how good their maps are?

From the MapAdvisor Website:

NOTE: MapAdvisor maps cover only the continental USA, Puerto Rico and Alaska.

[+NomadVW]

You might want to look into the software "Pathaway" for the Palm. I use it on my Palm TX and am very happy with its capabilities.

 

Site is... um....

 

http://www.pathaway.com

 

Good luck!

VW

[+naviguesser74]

Fugawi looks like it does what I am trying to do, but it looks like you have to have a PC as opposed to a Mac. Pathaway looks interesting, too. But it looks like you have to have a PC for it, too.

[+Learned Gerbil]

Fugawi Maps and Palm - has anyone any experience of this mapping software on a Palm?

Once the application is loaded on to the Palm and the maps are loaded on to a SD card, using a card reader, how do you access the maps from the card?

The Palm application (and the PPC one) can only display maps that have been exported from the PC application in the appropriate format. The map files on the CD are for the PC version only and are useless on the SD card.

 

To use the Palm software you need to do this in the PC application (assuming you have told it you are ussing a Palm - the way you do this is completly different if you have a PPC)-

 

1) Select and area of the map with the selection tool (Note that the OS license limits the size of map sections and will not allow you to choose overlapping sections)

 

2) Edit - Export Selection to PDA ...

 

3) You will then get a menu where you get to name the map section etc.

 

4) Sync your Palm

 

5) The map will be transfered to the Palm's RAM

 

6) The map can be viewed on the Palm, or the Palm application can be used to move the map to your SD card

 

Note that due to limitations in all but late versions of the Palm operating system maps are only viewable when in main RAM. Maps have to be copied between the SD card and memory to view them. If you have problems with limited RAM then you need to use something like ZLauncher to ensure you only ever have applications in memory that you are running at the time.

 

Also note that hidden away in Settings - Palm is a way of managing map files, Waypoints etc

[+patanddave]

Thanks for your help.

Pat

[+naviguesser74]

Handango's Outdoor Navigator looks like what I am looking for. Does anyone have experience with it? Where do get the maps? How are they calibrated to the Palm & GPS?

[+dino-irl]

A link would be useful....can't find anything on the Handango website

[+naviguesser74]

Here is a link, but one site says it is no longer available

 

http://gpsinformation.us/Maps/Maptech/MaptechOutdoor.html

[+dino-irl]

At the very top of the screen the title reads:

 

Maptech's Outdoor Navigator -A PDA Program to Accesses US Topo Maps and Marine Charts

and it says in at least one other place that it's for US use. Unless you can scan maps and get them to work with the program then it'll be no use in the UK