real-time navigation with notebook

[73highboy]

i have a garmin emap and a new notebook computor. i have the emap connected with a usb to serial cable, i can download and upload maps and waypoints with mapsource but how do you get it to show real-time location on the laptop. i would like my wife to be able to look at the notebook screen instead of the small emap screen while going down the raod in our truck

[Couch_Potato]

I'm not sure if all Mapsource programs are the same, but in my Metroguide it's in the GPS tab on the left part of the screen. There's 5 tabs on the left; Maps, Waypoints, Routes, Tracks, and GPS. Under GPS there's a button labelled 'Start Tracking'. That does it for me. Since you've already established communications everything should work fine.

 

I'm not lost!

I just don't know where I am.

[Curious George]

And remember to check that yout GPS is set to NMEA in/out or you won't get a signal

 

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[73highboy]

i seen the other post about updating mapsource to the latest version. after i did that it added alot of stuff. it added the gps tab and the "start tracking" button. now i can track with my notebook.

[+Record Holders]

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Originally posted by Curious George:

And remember to check that yout GPS is set to NMEA in/out or you won't get a signal

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Actually you're better off setting the unit to Garmin mode especially if you are using a locked map. Either will work and MapSource will try to connect in both formats, but locked maps won't display detail in NMEA mode.