Re: Garmin 60CS and MapSource - a further thought

From: Ben (ben_at_NOSPAMbosweb.demon.nl)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:24:10 +0200

I have a 60cs already (and a Vista with Metroguide) and i am very
disappointed by this misbehaviour of Garmin: ***!!
So i bought CitySelect and now i am even very angry: there a many problems
with routing on computer versus 60cs and Garmin said: nothing is wrong.
Maybe they will hear there costumers once .......because Magellan is not
realy an good alternative.

Ben

"Simon Long" <simon@longnews.freeserve.co.uk> schreef in bericht
news:891fd138.0407190114.4fb790b2@posting.google.com...
> Hi All,
>
> Still pondering the purchase of a 60CS, but something occurred to me
> this weekend that seems like a major flaw.
>
> If you transfer a route generated in MapSource to a 60CS, only the
> start, end and any intermediate via waypoints are transferred to the
> GPS - the GPS then autoroutes based on those points and either
> downloaded MapSource data or the basemap.
>
> Therefore, if you generate a particularly long route in MapSource, for
> which not all the area is covered by a downloaded map, the MapSource
> routing on the unmapped area won't transfer to the GPS, and the route
> will be calculated (badly) across the basemap.
>
> Whereas on my current Vista, if I generate a route in MS and transfer
> it, the GPS gets the entire route and I can follow it whether or not I
> have mapping data for the area.
>
> This seems to me to be a *major* flaw. The removal of the ability to
> transfer complete tracks to a 60CS seems to have been done solely so
> they can sell CitySelect to people who already own MetroGuide. I've
> bought 2 Garmin products (eTrex Summit and Vista, and MapSource MG
> Europe), not to mention various accessories, and I would really like a
> 60CS - but I am not buying one until this is fixed. It would be a
> trivial software change to enable a full route transfer protocol.
>
> And BTW, it was the fact that I already had a copy of MapSource that
> was preventing me from looking at other manufacturers for my next GPS.
> Now I'm going to have to buy new mapping anyway, I think I'll go and
> see what Magellan have to offer. Well done, Garmin - you just lost a
> customer through your own greed! Think I'll drop them an email to that
> effect and see what happens...
>
> Simon