[Az-Geocaching] New MapSource update

[Roping The Wind]

Yes. I emailed them several months ago (back when we were first discussing 
this issue) about the lost data in the track save. I never got a response to 
that email (which is kinda rare, Garmin usually responds rather quickly). 
For what I use the track logs for (outside of geocaching), I would really 
like (and sometimes really need) that additional information in my saved 
track logs. If a legal issue ever arose with the FAA, that additional data 
could prove very useful.

In the time being, I just have to turn off the tracklog after I am done with 
my track and then offload the track log immediately after I get home and not 
'save' it. Just offload it and then save it on my computer. The big issue I 
have with this is that if I am out of town for several days and I do several 
track logs, I HAVE TO save them all on the GPS or you would have a 
continuous track log, which wouldnt differentiate between each individual 
track.

I dont have a laptop computer that I can carry with me to offload the tracks 
too. However, it might be possible to save them to a Windows Pocket PC PDA. 
??? I know Garmin has their Mapsource in their Pocket PC IQUE. Is Mapsource 
compatible with the Windows pocket PC OS? Can the program be downloaded to 
the PDA? Has anyone done this before (with other than a Garmin PDA)? If so, 
I would consider it, as I have been wanting to get a new PDA that is Windows 
OS.

Still, I think it is a very simple issue to resolve. As you said, Brian, it 
is simple text. It seems to me that this is something that could easily be 
accomodated into a software update.

Scott
Team Ropingthewind



>From: Brian Casteel <>
>Reply-To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] New MapSource update
>Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:57:36 -0700
>
>Yeah, I upgraded to the beta firmware yesterday as well.  So far, it
>seems to be holding stable, which is good.  Scott,  did you contact
>Garmin at all to inquire about the track log issue at all to see if it
>would be addressed down the road?  I can only guess that they made it
>strip data upon save for space considerations, but text compresses
>extraordinarily well, so I question that logic.
>
>Brian
>Team A.I.