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)

Theodore Heise wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:42:32 -0700 (PDT),
> Hoges in WA <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> 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?).
>
> Are you sure it's NT? I'm thinking maybe it's NA for North
> America.

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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On Apr 18, 1:29*pm, "Michael Jaeger" <michael.a.jae...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Theodore Heise wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:42:32 -0700 (PDT),
> > *Hoges in WA <hogesi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> 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?).
>
> > Are you sure it's NT? *I'm thinking maybe it's NA for North
> > America.
>
> 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
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~www.majaeger.de
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "Die gef hrlichste aller Weltanschauungen ist die Weltanschauung der
> Leute, welche die Welt nicht angeschaut haben."
> Alexander von Humboldt


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,
Michael Jaeger <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Theodore Heise wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:42:32 -0700 (PDT),
>> Hoges in WA <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?).
>>
>> Are you sure it's NT? I'm thinking maybe it's NA for North
>> America.

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

Makes sense, thanks!

--
Theodore (Ted) Heise <(E-Mail Removed)> Bloomington, IN, USA

Op 18-4-2011 5:19, Theodore Heise schreef:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:42:32 -0700 (PDT),
> Hoges in WA<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> 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?).
>
> Are you sure it's NT? I'm thinking maybe it's NA for North
> America.
>
>
>> Anyway, can someone enlighten me as to why there are two and
>> what each is better at than the other? Thanks
>
> I believe that MapSource is mainly intended to work with the City
> Navigator maps, and the BaseMap is for topos. Could be wrong
> though.
>
I use my Mapsource also for planning of hiking trips. First I found the
complete hiking trail which I opened in mapsource. After that I want to
plan a certain distance and create a track tha I can export to google
earth. Then I see the track that we will follow that day and I email
that picture to my friends with whom we walk that trail.