Re: MapSource Topo 2008 downloading maps question

Jack Erbes wrote:
Ted Edwards wrote:
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Thanks for your reply. Let me check that I have this straight:
Start MapSource
Connect GPSR (a Garmin 76Cx) to a USB port (I have three USB 2 ports on this machine)
Connect card reader writer to another USB port
Select the card reader writer with card from MapSource (I presume MapSource will allow this)
Download maps from MapSource to the card.

That is exactly what I do. I think the time saved is that having the card in the GPS slows the throughput down a little bit. I suppose the processor in the GPS is processing or something.

When I do it MapSource always lists all the removable drives (i.e, cards in readers) and the GPS receiver as potential destinations.

MapSource also starts M$'s ActiveSynch software and offers up the user accounts there as potential destinations for a transfer also. That is an annoyance of sorts because I never want to send maps to a PDA but I suppose it has something to do with the iQUE family of GPS receivers.

I use eCS (OS/2) for most of my computing and Windoze for only a few things such as MapSource so I simply disconnect from the network when running anything other than Google Earth.

BTW, downloading the card from eCS, I see a root directory containing all the daily track logs and a GARMIN subdirectory containing one file, GMAPSUPP.IMG. Interestingly, this file is 1527.2MB compared to MapSource's claim that my 1783 maps take up 1542.2MB of my 2GB card. I suspect that the IMG file on the card is all the maps glued together and that is what takes up most of the time.

Ted
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