[Wolves] Updating Tom Tom maps?

[John Green]

there are also lots of gps apps for linux i bought a gps dongle not long
ago install havent played with it enough to recommend anything but pretty
easy to configure using gpsd


On 18 March 2014 10:24, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had a look through some of those forum posts that came up with the
> Google search.  Interestingly, and somewhat annoyingly,  it would appear
> that the Tom Tom itself runs from a version of Linux!  The claim is that it
> would be to difficult to write a version of 'Tom Tom Home' (their updating
> software) for every type of Linux.  I find that somewhat odd.  Yet again,
> if they would ask the open source community I am sure that somebody (plenty
> of people) with the skillset would be willing to write at least some of the
> relevant code.  There does seem to be a long running call for this from
> Linux users who have Tom Tom devices.
>
>
> On 17 March 2014 22:14, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Dave :)  That does look interesting.  I need to find out first
>> if I can download the new updates as a zip file (should.... I would have
>> thought).  With my model I normally stream the update rather than download
>> it and then install for that (download).
>>
>> I'll see if it is seen as a USB device first.  Again, I would imagine it
>> will be seen at the least as a storage device.
>>
>>
>> On 17 March 2014 18:24, Dave Morley <davmor2 at davmor2.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/03/14 18:16, Kevanf1 wrote:
>>> > Does anybody use a Tom Tom sat nav and if so how do you go about
>>> > updating the maps please?  I'm looking at installing Linux on a laptop
>>> > but Tom Tom, typically, only offer Microsoft software :(  Can I perhaps
>>> > use this on WINE?
>>> >
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>>> Have you done a google search at all? I found this article once I
>>> ignored all the tomtom discussion boards.
>>> http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/tomtom_maps.html
>>>
>>> I don't know if it helps I don't know what tomtom device you have etc.
>>>
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