Jon,
I love the Garmin 2820 it does everything I want it to do as a unit. Easy to use, works great with Bluetooth which is a primary requirement for me.
However, MAPSOURCE is one of the WORSE pieces of amatuer software I have ever seen (and I have seen quite a few of them). It is inflexible, counter intutive and very un user freindly.
The Find Places application almost makes you want to go take some medication.
I have a high tolerance to pain and software bugs but this is a hugh piece of crap foisted on the public.
Tuesday morning Garmin (The Software people) and I will be having a "Come To Jesus meeting"
There is absolutley no parrell to setting waypoints with map data off the desk top and searching snfd setting them using just "Maps"
The two seem to be mutually exclusive applications.
Heres an example. To establish a new way point I had to go use Maps On Us on the net to find the location. Cant find it on Map Source using " Find Places" Had to go to the map portion of Map Source find the approx location and work my way down in map scale until I could find it and establish a waypoint. INCREDIBLE
This software won't even find my town correctly and let me type in the street I live on which has only been around since 1870 I have to do it using the maps only
DOES ANYBODY KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY 3D PARTY software apps available as an alternative to Map source that will function on Garmin Products, I searched couldn't find anything but irratated people on different forums.
However, I can handload everything in off the unit and the unit never misses a beat
I love the Garmin 2820 it does everything I want it to do as a unit. Easy to use, works great with Bluetooth which is a primary requirement for me.
However, MAPSOURCE is one of the WORSE pieces of amatuer software I have ever seen (and I have seen quite a few of them). It is inflexible, counter intutive and very un user freindly.
The Find Places application almost makes you want to go take some medication.
I have a high tolerance to pain and software bugs but this is a hugh piece of crap foisted on the public.
Tuesday morning Garmin (The Software people) and I will be having a "Come To Jesus meeting"
There is absolutley no parrell to setting waypoints with map data off the desk top and searching snfd setting them using just "Maps"
The two seem to be mutually exclusive applications.
Heres an example. To establish a new way point I had to go use Maps On Us on the net to find the location. Cant find it on Map Source using " Find Places" Had to go to the map portion of Map Source find the approx location and work my way down in map scale until I could find it and establish a waypoint. INCREDIBLE
This software won't even find my town correctly and let me type in the street I live on which has only been around since 1870 I have to do it using the maps only
DOES ANYBODY KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY 3D PARTY software apps available as an alternative to Map source that will function on Garmin Products, I searched couldn't find anything but irratated people on different forums.
However, I can handload everything in off the unit and the unit never misses a beat