+Team Benhamtroll Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Okay, I'm a cacher and I use a Mac. I found SimpleGPS, which makes it easy to download waypoints to my Magellan, but I'm curious if there are any other useful apps out there for Mac. I'm looking at adding a PDA to my caching arsenal as well, so any related Mac tools that would help with that would be cool, too. Quote Link to comment
+Moe the Sleaze Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Sadly, probably the best Mac software to get for geocaching is Virtual PC. Quote Link to comment
flir67 Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 (edited) Okay, I'm a cacher and I use a Mac. I found SimpleGPS, which makes it easy to download waypoints to my Magellan, but I'm curious if there are any other useful apps out there for Mac. I'm looking at adding a PDA to my caching arsenal as well, so any related Mac tools that would help with that would be cool, too. what settings do you use for transfering files with mac,I'm using the new explorist 600 I have the magellan and have several communication settings, v1.5apa or v1.5 xte or v2.1gsa. if I put i into file transfer the files pop up on the desktop which is nice but how do you get simplegps to read from unit. thanks flir67 Edited April 27, 2005 by flir67 Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 (edited) Dollars to donuts that if you use MacGPSBabel to write files of type "magellan" to that drive that pops up and name them "whatever.upt" you'll be able to select that folder of user waypoints on the GPS and off you go. Forward compatibility in GPSBabel. Ha! Edited April 27, 2005 by robertlipe Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted April 28, 2005 Author Share Posted April 28, 2005 I've got an old Keypsan USA-19 USB/Serial converter, that SimpleGPS recognizes. I can then just dump the .LOC files directly into my GPS315 through that. Actually works well, as long as you tell SimpleGPS to look for the converter. Of course, I'm going to have to tell my PocketQueries to run .GPX files as well as soon as I pick up a PDA, so I can get the descriptions as well . . . Quote Link to comment
flir67 Posted April 28, 2005 Share Posted April 28, 2005 Dollars to donuts that if you use MacGPSBabel to write files of type "magellan" to that drive that pops up and name them "whatever.upt" you'll be able to select that folder of user waypoints on the GPS and off you go. Forward compatibility in GPSBabel. Ha! i'll give it a a shot. simplegps for mac, I could never get to recongize the explorist except on the first time I run it. Quote Link to comment
+Steve L Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Sadly, probably the best Mac software to get for geocaching is Virtual PC. I disagree completely. I do almost everything with native Mac software. I use MacGPS Pro for transferring waypoints to/from my GPSr. It reads GPX files directly, but if I need to do any other manipulations on GPX files I use gpsbabel. (I use the command line version of gpsbabel, but there's a version with a Mac UI.) CacheMate is great for paperless caching, and there is a Mac UI wrapper for the converter tool called MacCMConvert. The only thing I use Virtual PC for is running Garmin's MapSource software, which is the only way I can install maps on my GPS V. If Garmin weren't so stubborn about not supporting Mac users (they not only won't do a Mac port themselves, they won't allow a third party to do it either), I'd be able to throw away Virtual PC completely. Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Slightly off topic, but there is a cache in the Los Angeles area that you can only see if you are using a Mac. I was at a recent "Paperless Caching" event in San Diego and Parsa, who had a Mac and was explaining programs for the Mac, was the only one in that room full of laptops with wireless connections to the Internet who could get the coordinates. There was a little message on the page saying: "Cache Different" and a snipe about not sharing with PC users. Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted May 5, 2005 Author Share Posted May 5, 2005 I'd like to see that Cache, since I'll be in LA in June. Anyone use CacheMate with a Mac? I'm getting my new Palm IIIxe soon, and I'd like to make sure that I get it running quickly and completely . . . Quote Link to comment
+Wacka Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Cachemate is a Palm program, not a PC or Mac one. Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted May 5, 2005 Author Share Posted May 5, 2005 Yes, but a lot of the external apps that people use with it are Windows apps (GSAK, etc.) I was under the impression that Cachemate would use the .gpx files unconverted, but from what I've been reading you need to doctor them a bit first. That was the main gist of my question . . . Can you get a full cached listing into Cachemate without external software, and if not are there any apps that will do it on a Mac? Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 I just sent you a message . . . Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Jeremy Atherton is a star at making UNIXy programs like GPSBabel and cmconvert available to OSX users. See http://www.jfatherton.co.uk/MacCMConvert/ Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted May 5, 2005 Author Share Posted May 5, 2005 Now THAT'S cool. Thanks, Robert! Now I just need my PDA to arrive. It's been a couple of days with no contact from the eBay seller. I hope I didn't get scammed . . . Quote Link to comment
+Redfive Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Thanks for all this information... There are a few other Mac people out here who have been looking for this stuff, too. Viva la Apple! Quote Link to comment
+Team Benhamtroll Posted May 5, 2005 Author Share Posted May 5, 2005 Yeah, I just downloaded TerraViewer. Very nice, and very helpful. Thanks to everyone! Quote Link to comment
+Steve L Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Slightly off topic, but there is a cache in the Los Angeles area that you can only see if you are using a Mac. I was at a recent "Paperless Caching" event in San Diego and Parsa, who had a Mac and was explaining programs for the Mac, was the only one in that room full of laptops with wireless connections to the Internet who could get the coordinates. There was a little message on the page saying: "Cache Different" and a snipe about not sharing with PC users. So which cache is it? Quote Link to comment
+redheadsrule Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Jeremy Atherton is a star at making UNIXy programs like GPSBabel and cmconvert available to OSX users. See http://www.jfatherton.co.uk/MacCMConvert/ Snow Leopard has broken MacCMConvert, does anybody know how to get ahold of Jeremy Atherton and see if he'll put out a new version? Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 He disappeared from GPSBabelsville a long time ago. Since the post you cited was from '05, it predates the Intel announcement in '06. Thus MacCMConvert is most likely a Power PC binary. Snow Leopard doesn't install Rosetta by default any longer. Double check that Rosetta is installed and functioning. Quote Link to comment
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