[Ti] TiBook & GPS

[Sherman Gregory]

At 7:53 PM -0700 8/1/03, Dick Grable wrote:
>Does anyone know of a GPS unit that works with a TiBook? If not then my next
>choice is the Street Pilot III and finally a product called Handspring Trio
>'Mouse'. Any information would be appreciated.
>

I use a Garmin GPS III and GPS V and a Keyspan USB to serial adaptor.

I purchased GPSy Pro (http://www.gpsy.com/) about a year ago.  It has 
several bugs and they had no schedule to fix them, and it only runs 
under classic.  Maybe they have fixed some things since then, but I 
don't know.

I purchased MacGPS Pro (http://www.macgpspro.com/) a couple of weeks 
ago and have played with it a little.  So far it looks to be better 
than GPSy, but I have not had a chance to play a lot.  It runs native 
under OS X.

If you just want to upload and download waypoints, tracks and routes, 
there is an open source command line tool available here 
http://www.snafu.org/.  The older 1.7.2 version used to compile fine 
under OS X if you followed the instructions for Linux and not the 
ones for BSD.  I needed the newer version to be compatible with the 
GPS V, and it does not like to compile under OS X.  I could not even 
get the old version to compile with the current gcc. I did eventually 
get the new one to compile, but I need to go back and clean things up 
still.

The Delorme Street Atlas software would run under classic last time I 
tried, but they dropped support and new versions for the Mac.  I do 
not know if it is still available.

    Sherman