nRoute for Zumo

[GSwadd]

What the hell is nRoute and do I need it? 110mb download..?!?

 

[ECM]

Something like Mapsource, so no you don't need it./

 

[AndyW]

• Brings Garmin's award-winning auto-routing navigation to your laptop, utilizing the larger screen to display a large map and easy-to-read directions.
• Performs turn-by-turn route assistance and previewing, including spoken turn reminders and automatic recalculation when off-route.
• Tracks your location using either north-up orientation or vehicle-direction up.
• Finds places and easily routes to all points of interest and addresses that your MapSource product provides.
• Allows you to customize the places that you want to find and route to quickly using 'Find'; for example, 'Nearest Gas' or 'Nearest Italian Food'.
• Provides driver with information, including upcoming cross-streets, street addresses, speed, bearing, and elevation.
• Provides multiple trip computers that allow you to track distance, time, and speeds for business or personal use.
• Allows importing and exporting of user data to and from MapSource files.
• Works with all MapSource products. Note that BlueChart and MetroGuide 5 or greater will not support some features.
• Designed for use with the GPS 18 and GPS 10, but will work with almost any Garmin GPS over serial or USB.
• Available to MapSource owners as a significant improvement and expansion of the real-time tracking capability. Takes advantage of your installed map product's capabilities. For example, you can find an address and it will auto-route on any auto-routing map, like City Navigator.
• This version of nRoute no longer supports Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT

More.............
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=575

 

[GSwadd]

Yes, read all that before I posted but it doesn't actually tell you what the software does. Is it similar to Mapsource for planning use or does it act as a data aquisition tool while enroute? Or does it just display the GPS output on a laptop screen for blind freddys?

 

[GSwadd]

Just answered my own question. Seems it just turns you laptop into a large screen GPS with the addition of a usb gps receiver or Garmin unit, so similar to the internal software of a handheld GPS.

Anyone make laptop mounts for the handlebars of a GS now?

 

[snoopy]

There is a piece of free software that converts any NMEA GPS signal into GARMIN GPS code and it works with nRoute. Also, nRoute (obviously) doesn't verify codes to unlock the maps like on an actual GARMIN GPS unit. I think you can see where I'm going with this...

PS) This method works in Linux as well.

 

[ebbo]

nRoute is a program for your laptop that turns it in to a routing GPS device using your already unlocked mapping such as City Navigator…, long ago this was a feature of Mapsource but was removed and Nroute was created as a product to be sold with Garmins own GPS receivers such as the GPS 18 USB https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=6445

All though nRoute works quite well it does seem somewhat under developed, Just recently Garmin seem to have re launched the idea with this product https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=13484 What the software will be like I have no idea.
nRoute available here: http://www.garmin.com/software/nRoute_276.exe

The program you need to make nRoute work with *any* GPS receiver (I use a Globalsat BU-353) is Franson GPGgate, a cracking little program.
http://franson.com/gpsgate/