difference between mapsource softwares

[djwini]

along with the used garmin 60c that i just bought, i got a copy of Mapsource metro guide usa, and Mapsource roads and recreation. I am wondering if they are just older versions of Mapsource city select, or if there is anything different about them. any of you have them?

[Buy_The_Tie]

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Originally posted by djwini:
along with the used garmin 60c that i just bought, i got a copy of Mapsource metro guide usa, and Mapsource roads and recreation. I am wondering if they are just older versions of Mapsource city select, or if there is anything different about them. any of you have them?

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Mapsource Roads & Rec: About 6 or 7 yrs. old, contains detailed road data and not much else. (many, many, many, maps, small amount of memory in GPS needed)

Mapsource Metroguide: Contains the same road data (a little newer I think) as Roads & Rec, but also has addresses, restraunts, gas, lodging, transportation, etc… lookup. Much more data than Roads & Rec. (less maps will fit than roads & rec)

Mapsource City Select: A much, much, newer version of metroguide, INCLUDING the ability to auto-route on your 60C. (Even fewer maps will fit than Metroguide)

[djwini]

thanks, then i guess i can use the city select for both gps’s

[seekers8711]

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Originally posted by djwini:
sic Mapsource roads and recreation. B]

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IMHO, ROADS & RECREATION is a really valuable, although older program.

I have R & R, fully installed on my computer, (per excellent coaching by a Garmin Tech), HAS MUCH BETTER MAPS in “rural” areas all over WI, BWCAW Area of MN than North America City Select, V 7.0. in Mapsource, I find I can go to any rural area in the Midwest and zoom down to .3 miles or less with N.A.C.S. V7, then click on R & R and even tho it is older, I find it has MUCH better maps. I am using a Garmin GpsMap_76C w/ 115 Mb of memory. I can load all of WI & northern MN with N.Y.C.S, all of the same areas with R & R, and even quite a bit of the older version of Topo East for the water areas I go to.

Again, IMHO, Roads & Recreation is an EXCELLENT PROGRAM and does not require any unlock codes.

[RangerBoy]

So can you have more than one type of map for the same area loaded in the 60c and then toggle between them? For example the usual city select map and then a topo or this R&R? Can you then switch which map you see out in the field?

[hogrod]

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Originally posted by RangerBoy:
So can you have more than one type of map for the same area loaded in the 60c and then toggle between them? For example the usual city select map and then a topo or this R&R? Can you then switch which map you see out in the field?

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YES to all your questions. when selecting area maps in mapsource that you want to send to your GPSr, after you select all the city select you want you just have to switch mapsource to topo and select the areas you want of topo. then send to your GPSr… thats the easy part.

it is kind of a buried menu in the GPSr where you switch maps. I have a legend C but the menus are pretty much the same as the 60c.
when on the map screen, hit options, select setup map,highlight the I icon(i with circle around it)and hit the option key again. in that menu you can show and hide any mapset.

with topo and city selectV7 installed you can’t see topo without hiding city select. also I really hate how buried this change is so i emailed garmin about it…. they said I’m not the first person to say that and that they were working on a change in one of the newer firmwares to make switching maps easier.

[This message has been edited by hogrod (edited 03-22-2006).]

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