Interfacing with a Mac

[+1scouter2]

New to geocaching. Have been using a GPS for about 5 years, always with a Windows machine. I would like to use my Mac to do this. OS is 10.3.9. I purchased Garmin topos (cw usb interface) that works well on the PC, but want to consolidate my hardware.

 

Suggestions or advice appreciated.

 

I live near Edmonton Alberta Canada.

Edited March 24, 2008 by leobeaudry

[+PilotMan]

New to geocaching. Have been using a GPS for about 5 years, always with a Windows machine. I would like to use my Mac to do this. OS is 10.3.9. I purchased Garmin topos (cw usb interface) that works well on the PC, but want to consolidate my hardware.

 

Suggestions or advice appreciated.

 

I live near Edmonton Alberta Canada.

 

None of the traditional GPS interfaces work on my mac with my Garmin Venture HC, but Garmin's Bobcat program works just fine. You import the .gpx files into Bobcat and you can send it to the GPS. If your GPS has a Geocaching mode, any waypoint that begins with "GC" is automatically stored in the Geocache folder on the GPS.

[+1scouter2]

New to geocaching. Have been using a GPS for about 5 years, always with a Windows machine. I would like to use my Mac to do this. OS is 10.3.9. I purchased Garmin topos (cw usb interface) that works well on the PC, but want to consolidate my hardware.

 

Suggestions or advice appreciated.

 

I live near Edmonton Alberta Canada.

 

None of the traditional GPS interfaces work on my mac with my Garmin Venture HC, but Garmin's Bobcat program works just fine. You import the .gpx files into Bobcat and you can send it to the GPS. If your GPS has a Geocaching mode, any waypoint that begins with "GC" is automatically stored in the Geocache folder on the GPS.

 

Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes.