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Prospector
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Initially Posted - 05/25/2009 :  14:11:45  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
I was all ready to go and spend money on a nice new colour chartplotter when I got heart-stopping news. Apparently in order to transfer data from a Standard Horizon plotter to a PC, you have to buy a second empty C-map card, a special cable, and some proprietary software. This seems strange to me.

Is anyone aware of a colour GPS that has a USB (or serial) data out function? I built cables for my lowly Lowrance H2O and it will now give position to my radio, but it will not send out a tracklog to my PC after I get home.

If no one is aware of a unit thta does this I may have to build a data logger that talks to the Lowrance, and my PC.
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 05/25/2009 :  15:22:22  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
My Garmin GPSMap C276 has a mini-USB-in cable, you can up/download with that. There are freeware programs available to manipulate your data (export to Google Earth for example). I think you need to use Garmin's proprietary software to move the data back & forth, but I'm not positive on that point, the computer that I had the software loaded on died and I haven't bothered to install it on this one yet.
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