I haven't seen any revised timeline, but here is my best guess. Garmin has typically updated their maps once per year, in late June, based on the early April NAVTEQ release. Therefore during that next release might be a likely time to push out a Mac version of MapSource.
Also note that the Apple WWDC is June 11-15, and companies typically make many announcements at that time. Therefore I wouldn't be surprised to see a Mac compatible version of MapSource announced around June 11, with availability when the new maps are pushed out later that month.
I hope to be proven wrong and we see an update earlier, but I suspect we will have it in our hands three months from now... late June or early July.
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Florida, USA
Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:20 pm
I hope you are right. June or July would be fine by me. I find it interesting that there has been no blog or press release from Garmin about the webupdater and POI releases. Perhaps because once they announce those releases the next logical question is when will mapsource be ready, and they are not ready to tell us yet.
It could be that, or it could be because those releases have been labeled "beta". The more advanced users will find the betas and be better people to find any major bugs before an official release is made.
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Florida, USA
Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:09 pm
True, but so far it seems very stable. The only glitch I have found in Webupdater is that you must have a unit plugged in before you launch the application, or you get the spinning beach ball and have to force quit.
Interesting, that didn't happen to me. When I launched WebUpdater without a GPS plugged in it just said no devices found. I plugged one in and it still didn't recognize it... so I quit, relaunched, and then it picked it up.
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Florida, USA
Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:02 pm
Just tried it again. Now I get a dialog box that says "there was a problem communicating with your Garmin device" etc. But If you click OK with out plugging in a unit the dialog reappears. Trying to quit doesn't work as long as you have the dialog box which you cannot get rid of without plugging in a device.
In other words plug in a device or force quit. Simple quit won't work because of the active dialog box.
Just thought I'd pipe in here. I have for at least 4 years been hounding Garmin for Mac support -- especially USB support using the USB cable directly and NOT through an adapter (like Keyspan's USB-to-serial adapter) at the incredibly slow 9600 baud rate. I finally had it working on my old Mac G4, running MapSource using Virtual PC 4.0.2 using the USB-USB cable. Once I switched over to my G5, I lost VPC 4.0.2 (it will not work under the Classic environment correctly) and was forced to migrate to VPC 7.x.x -- which DOES NOT support the USB protocol on my 60CS. I have been wishing, hoping, and pleading to Garmin for a Mac version of MapSource that works with Garmin's USB devices. Reading back in January/February of 2006, I was ecstatic when Garmin announced Mac support by the end of 2007. As already posted here, that didn't happen.
A couple of months ago I called Garmin's tech support regarding their MapSource TOPO package. I always wanted THAT loaded on my hard drive and accessible at all times to MapSource -- not wanting to insert the CD's every time I needed to view the topo data or upload it into the 60CS's memory. Tech support sent me an "unofficial" and "unsupported" method to do this (it didn't work!). I eventually found a better way on the internet which DID work!! But, while on the phone with tech support, I asked WHEN is MapSource for the Mac coming out, since it was promised by the end of last year, and it was already March of 2007.
In no uncertain terms, I was told -- NOT BY THE END OF 2007, EITHER!! They were NOT proactively working on it. Again, this was tech support, and it's possible that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing over there.
So, unless someone actually knows something different, that's the latest BAD news from Garmin that I have.
Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Juneau, Alaska
Mac Mapsource Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:02 am
WWDC and come and gone. Any word on Mapsource for the Mac?
Tim wrote:
I haven't seen any revised timeline, but here is my best guess. Garmin has typically updated their maps once per year, in late June, based on the early April NAVTEQ release. Therefore during that next release might be a likely time to push out a Mac version of MapSource.
Also note that the Apple WWDC is June 11-15, and companies typically make many announcements at that time. Therefore I wouldn't be surprised to see a Mac compatible version of MapSource announced around June 11, with availability when the new maps are pushed out later that month.
I hope to be proven wrong and we see an update earlier, but I suspect we will have it in our hands three months from now... late June or early July.
I haven't seen any revised timeline, but here is my best guess. Garmin has typically updated their maps once per year, in late June, based on the early April NAVTEQ release. Therefore during that next release might be a likely time to push out a Mac version of MapSource.
Also note that the Apple WWDC is June 11-15, and companies typically make many announcements at that time. Therefore I wouldn't be surprised to see a Mac compatible version of MapSource announced around June 11, with availability when the new maps are pushed out later that month.
I hope to be proven wrong and we see an update earlier, but I suspect we will have it in our hands three months from now... late June or early July.
Well, THAT's a bunch of hooey, isn't it? Is that supposed to imply that whatever Garmin has ALREADY released for the Mac is ALL we're going to see? Why don't they just hire a summer grad student who'd like to get his foot in the door and make a few bucks working for a big tech firm. He could probably whip out a Mac version of Mapsource by the end of July
I think the wording on that article is a little ambiguous and in the context the writer might not realize there is more software they still need to convert. (At least that is how I'm interpreting it.) I'll see if I can dig up any more relevant info.
Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Massachusetts
Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:21 am
I called Garmin about a month ago. The rep on the phone told me that they could have something by the end of this year for OS X. However, she couldn't really tell me what it was going to be.
Right now TomTom probably has the most complete support since their desktop software and their firmware updaters are Mac compatible.
Garmin is getting there as well with their firmware updates and some apps like POI Manager being Mac compatible. Still waiting or MapSource compatibility.
Other manufacturers are further behind, with fewer native options for Mac users.
From my understanding, it will load the maps onto a device, but it isn't a full blown MapSource application. That is what Bobcat will become when they finish it.
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