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Posted by Falcon on May 3, 2005, 7:31 am



I have a Garmin Legend C which I use in with Mapsource City Navigator and
Anquet digital maps. When tracks are downloaded into each programme they are
saved using their own kind of file type, such as .arf files for Anquet. Is
there any way that I can save a track in a format which can be emailed and
read by a programme I don't have, but a friend does, such as Memory Map?

On a related note, does anyone in the UK know whether the Navigator (Europe)
v.7 update includes UK roads missing from v.6, like the M6 Toll road and the
Hodnet bypass near Market Drayton? (I bought v.6 before Jan 2005, so I can't
upgrade free.)

Thanks in advance.

--
Falcon:
fide, sed cui vide. (L)
[I know that you believe that you understood what you think I wrote, but I
am not sure you realise that what you read is not what I meant.]




Posted by Craig Wallace on May 3, 2005, 8:01 am
Falcon wrote:
> I have a Garmin Legend C which I use in with Mapsource City Navigator and
> Anquet digital maps. When tracks are downloaded into each programme they are
> saved using their own kind of file type, such as .arf files for Anquet. Is
> there any way that I can save a track in a format which can be emailed and
> read by a programme I don't have, but a friend does, such as Memory Map?

GPX is the "standard" format for GPS track files. It's supported by the
latest versions of MapSource and Memory Map.

I don't know if Anquet supports GPX (yet?) but GPS Utility (
http://www.gpsu.co.uk ) can import Anquet files and export GPX.

You can use GPSBabel ( http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/ ) to convert to
/ from many different formats to GPX.

> On a related note, does anyone in the UK know whether the Navigator (Europe)
> v.7 update includes UK roads missing from v.6, like the M6 Toll road and the
> Hodnet bypass near Market Drayton? (I bought v.6 before Jan 2005, so I can't
> upgrade free.)

Use the map viewer on Garmin's site to see if it has those roads:
http://www.garmin.com/cartography/

--
Craig Wallace
http://craig.neogeo.org.uk
http://www.neogeo.org.uk

Posted by Falcon on May 3, 2005, 8:27 am

> Falcon wrote:
> > I have a Garmin Legend C which I use in with Mapsource City Navigator
and
> > Anquet digital maps. When tracks are downloaded into each programme they
are
> > saved using their own kind of file type, such as .arf files for Anquet.
Is
> > there any way that I can save a track in a format which can be emailed
and
> > read by a programme I don't have, but a friend does, such as Memory Map?
> GPX is the "standard" format for GPS track files. It's supported by the
> latest versions of MapSource and Memory Map.
> I don't know if Anquet supports GPX (yet?) but GPS Utility (
> http://www.gpsu.co.uk ) can import Anquet files and export GPX.
> You can use GPSBabel ( http://gpsbabel.sourceforge.net/ ) to convert to
> / from many different formats to GPX.
> > On a related note, does anyone in the UK know whether the Navigator
(Europe)
> > v.7 update includes UK roads missing from v.6, like the M6 Toll road and
the
> > Hodnet bypass near Market Drayton? (I bought v.6 before Jan 2005, so I
can't
> > upgrade free.)
> Use the map viewer on Garmin's site to see if it has those roads:
> http://www.garmin.com/cartography/

Excellent.
Thanks for your help Craig.

--
Falcon:
fide, sed cui vide. (L)
[I know that you believe that you understood what you think I wrote, but I
am not sure you realise that what you read is not what I meant.]




Posted by Dave Patton on May 3, 2005, 10:42 am



>
> I have a Garmin Legend C which I use in with Mapsource City Navigator
> and Anquet digital maps. When tracks are downloaded into each
> programme they are saved using their own kind of file type, such as
> .arf files for Anquet. Is there any way that I can save a track in a
> format which can be emailed and read by a programme I don't have, but
> a friend does, such as Memory Map?

Get a copy of the free G7ToWin program:
http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/g7towin.htm
For my reasons why, see:
http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/software.html#g7to

--
Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/

Posted by Mark on May 3, 2005, 3:39 pm



:
: > On a related note, does anyone in the UK know whether the Navigator
(Europe)
: > v.7 update includes UK roads missing from v.6, like the M6 Toll road and
the
: > Hodnet bypass near Market Drayton? (I bought v.6 before Jan 2005, so I
can't
: > upgrade free.)
:
M6 Toll road is on v7.

Mark