Basemap & Mapsource

I'm on the road at last and working from whatever Internet connections
I can get (mostly motel but soon harbours/marinas). I have ordered
City Navigator US NT (what's NT stand for?). It hasn't arrived yet
but should in a couple of days.

I have just come back from a round trip from Kingman to El Paso and
had my 76CsX on on the return journey. I've got the route saved but
haven't been successful in putting it on my PC yet.

I have both the above Garmin PC things but it has occurred to me that
I have no idea what each one does and why there is a need for two. I
had Basemap open and was trying to find something "logical" that said
"download your trip to this here" and then I could look at it but
nothing says logical about anything I saw.

Anyway, can someone enlighten me as to why there are two and what each
is better at than the other? Thanks
Hoges in WA (as in Western Australia but a long way from home for a
while)

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:42:32 -0700 (PDT),


Are you sure it's NT? I'm thinking maybe it's NA for North
America.



I believe that MapSource is mainly intended to work with the City
Navigator maps, and the BaseMap is for topos. Could be wrong
though.

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Theodore Heise wrote:

Theodore,

NT is OK, it stands for "New Technology" because in contrast to the
"classic" maps the new ones have a different compression algorythm.

MIke

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Ah! A light comes on. Thanks for that you two. Little bit by little
bit, I understand my Garmin a little more.
Hoges in WA.
But currently in Arizona

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:29:27 +0200,


Makes sense, thanks!

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