RE: [ST] Garmin GPS V plus

["Mike Bostock" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In your message regarding RE: [ST] Garmin GPS V plus dated Tue, 15 Jan 2002
07:38:09 -0500, Brad Hancock said that ...

>BH-  software is for outlying areas. It concentrates on urban areas. As such,
>BH-  it is great for cities, but not so great for areas like Deals Gap. I
>BH-  don't think they did much in the way of updating the coverage. There are
>BH-  several roads in my area built in the last five years that are still not
>BH-  covered. 

This, I must admit, is the major criticism I have of the software.  Some
areas are very poorly covered such as the Spain Roads and Recreation CDROM
yet it is the same price as the UK CDROM.  I asked Garmin a while back
about the ability to import maps into MapSource and/or users being able to
update the maps themselves and they said they were considering this. 
However, a more recent communication with them said:

"Due to commercial and technical reasons, GARMIN has decided not to release
any share/freeware software that will allow end-users to import custom maps
into MapSource. We will release a professional version, however the license
of this utility will be controlled and limited to GARMIN distributors only."

I wonder why :-(

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