MWSF: Garmin’s Bobcat prowls on the Mac

Posted by Dennis Sellers Jan 17, 2008 at 7:48am

Garmin has announced “Bobcat” for the Mac at this week’s Macworld Conference & Expo. Bobcat allows you to transfer waypoints, tracks, and routes between your Mac and Garmin device and manage your data using your Garmin maps.

It provides the ability to search for points of interest from your Mac and then send the locations to your Garmin GPS. Bobcat also serves as a backup tool for your Garmin GPS. You can receive all your waypoints, routes, and tracks from your GPS and Bobcat will save them automatically.

MapManager copies maps and unlock codes into the right place to be accessible by Bobcat and MapInstall. To migrate the maps from your Windows PC, download MapConverter onto your PC and follow the instructions. You can download and install MapConverter for Windows to convert your unlocked PC maps for use on your Mac.

Bobcat is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.

Garmin also said it will be releasing all of its new map products in native Mac format, starting with City Navigator North America 2008 and City Navigator Europe 2008.

The “Macsimum MWSF 2007 Coupon Book” is available for download. You can find it here and print it as a PDF. It has discounts, special offers and promotions in conjunction with the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.

Want to know what’s going on at this week’s Macworld Conference & Expo? Check out Hess Events List.

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