[Az-Geocaching] News for Garmin MapSource and Google Earth Users

[AZcachemeister]

Hey Steve! Is the MapSource update just to improve functionality of the 
software, or do you get updated street maps as well?

Team Tierra Buena wrote:

> Garmin released a new MapSource beta (6.9.0.2) on Friday. This is a 
> free download 
> (http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=997) if you own 
> the base software. There's now a menu selection that lets you see your 
> MapSource data in Google Earth without first having to save a GPX file.
>
> There's also a fairly-new beta (3.0.0616) of Google Earth itself. But 
> as someone mentioned here recently about their Palm, this version does 
> not play nicely with Windows XP Media Center of Windows XP for Tablet 
> PCs. Plus your video card driver may have been downgraded if you 
> installed XP Service Pack 2, which could adversely affect Google 
> Earth. This is not Google's problem (they have a workaround in the 
> install notes for Google Earth; good luck with it if all you have are 
> system restore disks). If it ever gets resolved, the solution will 
> have to come out of Microsoft. You can get the Google Earth update 
> from the program's Help menu.
>
> Steve
>
> Team Tierra Buena
>
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