[Az-Geocaching] Mapping software question

[Jim Scotti]

Darren is right.  Unless Delorme's new version of Topo has somehow made this
possible, you have to use Mapsource to upload map data into your Garmin GPSR.  
It would be great if other products could do that as well, but they cannot.  
The Delorme products are great for use in conjuction with your GPSR to plan
trips and to review your trips once complete (or even en route if you have a
laptop).  Unless things have changed, Garmin has a monopoly on uploading maps
to their products, for better or worse.  I use and recommend both Topo 3.0
and Street Atlas 9.0 by Delorme and hopefully I can upgrade to the latest
version of Topo for relatively cheap (having just gotten my current version
only at x-mas).

Jim.

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Darren Johnson wrote:

> 
> >
> > Anyone interested in playing Consumer Reports and giving me your opinions
> > on two map software products I'm looking at?  I see DeLorme has a new
> > Topo version coming on sale next month.  I'm using a Garmin eTrex Legend
> > and don't know if I should instead go with Garmin MapSource.  Any
> > compatibility problems with either of these?   How are they similar?
> > What does one do that the other doesn't?
> >
> 
> Now don't quote me on this, but I think that though you can upload waypoints
> and route information to and from a GPSR with the Delorme product, I don't
> think you can transfer _topo_ information with it.  For that you need to use
> the Mapsource product.  Now with this new version, I could be completely off
> base, but that was my understanding.
> 
> I have been wrong before.
> I will be wrong sometime again in the future (many times in fact)
> 
> Comforting.....
> 
> Team Imperial Eagle
> Darren
> 
> 
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Jim Scotti                              
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory         jscotti@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu 
University of Arizona                
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/