Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-18 Thread Malcolm McCallum
Hi Dane The company that supplied Mitsubishi with the GPS that is in my Pajero went broke so we got no upgrades. Mitsubishi have therefore given us a TomTom One I have found this excellent so far and it seems to 'know' a fairly recent version of WA roads. I would also recommend them.

Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-16 Thread Dennis Barnden
Quoting Adrian Colley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Lloyd, Saw your comments,I am particularly interested in Macs and GPS - is there someone out there who is able to impart some wisdom in terms of how to interface Macs and GPS? I am in Bunbury but would even consider a trip or two to Perth if there

Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-16 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Adrian, Lloyd and others For my boat based whale research, I have been using a great piece of software called MacGPS Pro that works brilliantly on my laptop and G5. It is well worth paying the US$50 as you are continually informed of updates and refinements in the software. It runs

Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-16 Thread Malcolm McCallum
I use the same setup and MacGPS. Have you found a good source of maps yet? Mac On 16/01/2007, at 12:05 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Adrian, Lloyd and others For my boat based whale research, I have been using a great piece of software called MacGPS Pro that works brilliantly on my laptop

Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-16 Thread John Winters
2007 09:18:18 +0900 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: GPS and Mac Quoting Adrian Colley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Lloyd, Saw your comments,I am particularly interested in Macs and GPS - is there someone out there who is able to impart some wisdom in terms of how

Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-16 Thread Dennis Barnden
Quoting Malcolm McCallum [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use the same setup and MacGPS. Have you found a good source of maps yet? The Tracks4Australia map set is suitable for Garmin GPSr units and is free. It has great coverage of non metropolitan areas and is constantly being improved by user

GPS and Mac

2007-01-15 Thread Lloyd White
I have read today's SMH review of GPS which rates the TomTom very highly. I know nothing of such things but I guess you have to download software and upgrade through a computer. I would also like to take one to Europe so I guess that also needs a computer download. Are these things Mac friendly?

Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-15 Thread Adrian Colley
Hi Lloyd, Saw your comments,I am particularly interested in Macs and GPS - is there someone out there who is able to impart some wisdom in terms of how to interface Macs and GPS? I am in Bunbury but would even consider a trip or two to Perth if there was someone who would run a quick tutorial or

Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-15 Thread Mark Heeler
: GPS and Mac Hi Lloyd, Saw your comments,I am particularly interested in Macs and GPS - is there someone out there who is able to impart some wisdom in terms of how to interface Macs and GPS? I am in Bunbury but would even consider a trip or two to Perth if there was someone who would run a quick

Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-15 Thread Robert Howells
There are a number of articles on GPS at the Mac publishing site : http://www.tidbits.com/ Type GPS into their search box and you will receive a list of their relevant information Bob On 15/01/2007, at 2:36 PM, Adrian Colley wrote: Hi Lloyd, Saw your comments,I am particularly

Re: GPS and Mac

2007-01-15 Thread Mark Heeler
Lloyd and all, I have had a TomTom 300 for 18 months which I selected after much research. IMHO they have the best interface and while they weren't really Mac friendly to start with (applications were Windows only) they are now ! This was a issue when new OS software became available