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GPS logger and basecamp help needed...
Good afternoon Hubbers....

How awesome to be able to come to the pub for a bit of friendly advice on a Sunday afternoon from across the desert!

right, here is my problem, I have basecamp loaded to my laptop and have plotted the route home from The Gambia to uk and I am able to transfer the data between my garmin sat navs... Wonderful! But I would like to be able to use my laptop on the road (just to make absolutely sure) so I have a GPS logger called an igotu.... How do I make it work with basecamp?

Any help would be grately appreciated... Thanks in advance,

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I take it you want to have a moving map on your laptop with your position marked in real time on the laptop?

Base Camp won't do what you want, but another Garmin program called nRoute will, although I doubt you will get it working with your GPS logger.
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Surly the hardware you bought has an interface if not a full program either off or online that can record and monitor the output from that device?

What format is the device sending out?
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I would like to be able to use my laptop on the road (just to make absolutely sure) so I have a GPS logger called an igotu.... How do I make it work with basecamp?
I think you'll find that is the wrong question.

What does 'Igotu' require? I'd think that will be NEMA data (from your GPS) on some computer port (USB or serial?). You should be able to configure your GPS to output NEMA data ... it should then work with your program. When you then want the GPS to work with basecamp you may well need to reconfigure your GPS back to Garmin mode...

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I use nroute on my netbook with my Garmin mapsource and it is fine.

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nroute is one of the last garmin releases that support realtime gps-position updates. (version 2.76). It requires a Garmin-approved GPS device, or a device that simulates Garmin - use Franson GPS-gate (freeware).

Basecamp and recent Mapsource releases do not support NMEA signals.
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