Apr 5th, 2008
Garmin Teams Up with Google and MapQuest for Simple Data Transfers
Do you prefer Google Maps for your business searches and for charting driving directions? Many of you that participated in a past poll said as much. How about AOL’s MapQuest? Either choice is fine with Garmin. In parallel press releases delivered this week, the manufacturer of personal GPS systems announced that users of both Google Maps and MapQuest services would be able to send pertinent location and travel data gathered in Web searches to their Garmin GPS consoles. These are quite convenient developments, for sure, as it is admittedly natural for many Web users to scout for destinations via one’s browser prior to doing the very same with the software interfaces on their standalone GPS devices.
In order to establish a bridge between one’s Garmin box and Google Maps or Mapquest, one will need first to 1) have a compliant device on hand, and 2) download the Garmin Communicator Plugin, which is presently compatible with Windows XP (and 2000) systems, and both PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers installed with OS X editions 10.4 or newer. Versions of the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari browsers are supported.
Looking at the Google Maps utility today, I was able to located the Send to GPS function quite easily by clicking on the send link positioned at the top right of the page. In browsing MapQuest, however, it seems that the service has yet to be updated to display its own similar option. I presume it the link will emerge in the drop-down ‘Send’ menu at the top left quarter of the page. Here are some screenshots of what you can expect to emerge on MapQuest:
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15 Responses to “Garmin Teams Up with Google and MapQuest for Simple Data Transfers”
“Ported” is the wrong term. Rewritten would be better. gold is an ELF linker, mingw32 uses the PE format.
WHYYYYYYYYY it can’t work on Windows with mingw… Linking C++ programs in this environment is so slow it makes baby Jesus cry.
I think your comment may be disingenuous.This is a GCC linker that only supports ELF, and is part of the GNU binutils. If you really wanted it, you’d probably know how to get it.Anyway, until it hits the distros, the way to get it is probably to check it out of CVS: cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src login{enter “anoncvs” as the password}cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co binutilspermalinkparentpkrumins (0 children) [+]pkrumins 10 points 6 hours ago [-]thanks!
It is open source. If it is a good as it promises then it will be ported to mingw as well.
Assuming its a direct replacement of the GCC linker, it would be.
You can use the free version commercially.EDIT: Actually I don’t think you could with the beta of version 9.0 but you can with the release versions.
MinGW is not a production ready toolchain on Windows
you’re… kidding… right?
Whoa, the first official Google Blog that allows comments.
You thought wrong.
How exactly “the freedom to use the software for any purpose” is connected with “the freedom to change the software to suit your needs, and”?Could you be more specific and tell me what is the exact purpose that you can’t use the vc++ compiler for? You can’t make pancakes and want to modify it?
A non-issue for many GCC users.
What, is there some bit that flips to indicate it’s being used commercially?
It’s nice to see someone focusing more on improving free software products, instead of writing about improving them, or writing about how non-free software is evil.