| Author | Message | ||
     Kennywiz |
Hello, Would anyone have the OEM Garmin GPS disk that came with they could copy/ship/sell me? The PO did not include my state and after speaking with Garmin, (who no longer supports the device), I would need the disk to resolve. The PO cannot find it. Thanks! | ||
| Reepicheep |
Forget Garmin, they left you high and dry. Remember that when you go to consider buying another GPS. It's one thing to stop providing firmware updates for the unit, but to not even bother grabbing ISO's of each release of their software so you can download it, or keep a copy of their key generation software so they can help users recover keys they bought but lost? Screw them, they screwed us. The good news is that the open streetmaps data will run beautifully on a Quest. While it can sometimes be a bit wonky on routing due to street attributes being different, it is completely up to date. By now, your original map data is probably getting long in the tooth. It took some fussing but I figured it out. I can figure it out again and document it if you are getting stuck. (And actually, I do have several copies of the Garmin disks, so if that's really all you need let me know what versions you need and I'll see if I have them... but i've abandoned them in favor of the much less DRM hostile and more up to date Open Street Map data. I can't count the number of hours Garmin Digital Rights Management has cost me in trying to use data I purchased... I'm beyond done with them, in spite of the fact that they make fantastic GPS's). (Message edited by reepicheep on May 21, 2014) | ||
| Reepicheep |
I think this is the site I used.. http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ | ||
| Kennywiz |
Thanks! I'll give that a try. Not certain which version I would need as all Garmin told me was I needed the OEM disk to load my state. I WAS however able to update to the latest firmware. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Yeah, thats their digital rights management software biting you. Here is what I think I did... Download basecamp from the garmin site, and install it to your machine. Go to that NL site and make a map for the areas you want to be able to navigate. Make the map (which can be plenty big, this just goes on your laptop). Install that map, which should show up as "OSM Routable" under Basecamp. You can then select that map under "Maps" and it should be unlocked and fully usable like any other map, and you can select and upload tiles to the Quest. It takes more memory then the nice compact older data that came with the Quest circa 2003, but it's not much worse than the newer Garmin data which is getting bloated also. You should be able to download more than enough geography for a trips worth of riding. Routing on the quest is, as always, pretty hit and miss. It can take hours to search and calculate a route on device. So use your smart phone to find the address, then just route to the address, which seems to go much more quickly. Where the Quest still kicks ass is as a "follow the orange line" device. I think i wrote that up... just a second... Ah! Found it. Unfortunatley I never got around to documenting the OSM data loading from scratch... that was going to be part of that thread. http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/384 2/725374.html | ||
| Kennywiz |
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Reepicheep |
Oh, and order a spare external antenna or two from ebay (only $15 or something, but it will take a month to get to you). It's just a matter of time until the built in one dies. You can remove two screws from the right side of the back (watch the spring that wants to go into low earth orbit) and pop out the factory one, hit it with contact cleaner, and get it working a few times... but it will eventually die completely. | ||
| Kennywiz |
Downloaded basecamp and the map. However, basecamp keeps throwing windows up alerting me that it cannot connect to my device. So many windows that I have to force quit the application. I've tried rebooting and the like and it's all the same. Thinking I may need to try the OEM disk route. Can you maybe upload it to like dropbox or the link and send me a link? Thanks! |
