Is it possible to track my Gramin GPS unit on my pc ?

Question

Hi i was just wandering if i could track my Gramin GPS from my home pc. I see all these adds about tracking cell phones via GPS so is it possible to track my GPS from my home PC ?

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Answer 1

A GPS is just a receiver.  It receives the satellite signals and computes it's location from those signals.  A standard GPS has no way of sending the location to any external device.  A cell phone can be tracked because it has it's phone transmitter in it to send the information to another device.  But more commonly a cell phone is triangulated from cell site signal strengths, not from GPS signals.