Is There A Use To Having Microsoft S&t?

[+Team Snoopy]

BB has Microsoft Street & Trips 2006 for $9.99 after rebate. Just wondering how useful it might be in geocaching, or at all? We have a Garmin Legend and Vista, no pda. Not sure if S&T is any different from using say mapquest to find your routes. Since I can get directions or zoom on there.

 

Says...GPS routing features include GPS trail, rerouting and distance-based voice prompting (requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later)

 

Would this work with my units?

Edited April 25, 2006 by Team Snoopy

[+Scrapman & GaPatci21]

BB has Microsoft Street & Trips 2006 for $9.99 after rebate. Just wondering how useful it might be in geocaching, or at all? We have a Garmin Legend and Vista, no pda. Not sure if S&T is any different from using say mapquest to find your routes. Since I can get directions or zoom on there.

 

Says...GPS routing features include GPS trail, rerouting and distance-based voice prompting (requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later)

 

Would this work with my units?

[+Scrapman & GaPatci21]

N route just as good and a free download from Garmin.

[+Renegade Knight]

I find it handy for looking at a map of caches to plan out a day. That's all I've used it for on the computer. I do use it a lot on the PDA but sine you don't have one that's not going to help.

 

It probably won't do anything that the Garmin software won't already do though.

[centme37]

N route just as good and a free download from Garmin.

 

Nroute is just as good however, S&T has thousands of POI's that might come in handy. Also, Nroute will only autoroute if you have CS or CN installed.

[+Sputnik 57]

Says...GPS routing features include GPS trail, rerouting and distance-based voice prompting (requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later)

 

Note that the quoted material means that if you load S&T onto a computer (presumably a laptop) and plug in your GPS receiver, the program will know where you are, so it can then leave a trail of "breadcrumbs" to show your movents, and presumably route you (or reroute you) to points on the map. You cannot load the S&T maps onto your GPSr.

 

If you already have City Select or City Navigator in MapSource, I would just download nRoute and use it for those functions. But then, I've never used S&T.

 

Edit: Prior versions of S&T required a serial connection, which is no problem for you Legend. Newer units with USB only were not as friendly. I understand that S&T now handles USB.

Edited April 25, 2006 by Sputnik 57

[robertlipe]

 

Edit: Prior versions of S&T required a serial connection, which is no problem for you Legend. Newer units with USB only were not as friendly. I understand that S&T now handles USB.

 

It's not "serial" as much as "something pretending to be serial that is presenting NMEA sentences". S&T works fine with a variety of USB "hockey puck" products.

 

Unfortunately, zero Garmin USB products fall into that category. S&T as recent as 2006 doesn't support Garmin's PVT protocol which is the only positioning available on Garmin's USB

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...2entry2168812

 

But to the original question, S&T will do some things that Nroute and Mapsource will not. http://www.gpsbabel.org/formats/s_and_t/TripPlanning.html describes one such; the Garmin mapping software just won't do the "travelling salesman" trick. They both have a place in the world.

[03HD]

[ the Garmin mapping software just won't do the "travelling salesman" trick. They both have a place in the world."

 

My Garmin Quest 2 will do the "traveling salesman trick".

[robertlipe]

[ the Garmin mapping software just won't do the "travelling salesman" trick. They both have a place in the world."

 

My Garmin Quest 2 will do the "traveling salesman trick".

As will 26xx, 27xx, and a few others. Since the discussion was about software running on the host and not device firmware, I didn't think I had to specify that I was talking about software on the PC and not device firmware, but I probably should have spelled that out.

[03HD]

As will 26xx, 27xx, and a few others. Since the discussion was about software running on the host and not device firmware, I didn't think I had to specify that I was talking about software on the PC and not device firmware, but I probably should have spelled that out.

 

didn't mean to make it sound like you did not know that ... I was only pointing out that for some folks with Garmin products, or those looking to buy, that there was no need to buy S&T just for that feature when various units have that feature, but I probably should have spelled that out.

[+mncanoeist]

Does anyone know if S&T will autoroute with a etrex legend hooked up to a laptop with a serial to usb adapter? I have nroute with metro guide NA, but would like autorouting on my laptop.