For users who managed to disc media, there may be a problem where maps installed to MapSource is not shown or displayed. In other word, despite Garmin MapSource has already been installed, and free maps (or unlicensed and unauthorized unlocked maps) been installed, MapSource simply won’t display and show the maps available. In addition, although with all the free maps or downloaded unlocked maps installed, the Map Tool button is disabled or grayed out. The View toolbar, which displays map set names, zoom in, zoom out, map scale and map detail settings selection, is also not displayed or shown. MapSource requires at least a legitimate map installed on MapSource in order to display other free maps that have been installed, probably as a safeguard against unauthorized map usage. Thus, for the free maps to work on MapSource, a properly licensed map must be installed on the MapSource, which can be map from the series of MapSource WorldMap, Trip and Waypoin Manager, MetroGuide, City Navigator etc. Unfortunately, most of these Garmin products are not free.
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And if the user plans to buy the map, the MapSource is included, and thus user does not need the hack to install MapSource without CD or DVD. For people who does not want to buy any of the Garmin map for MapSource, there is a free alternative or workaround to install a legitimate map to MapSource, so that all other free maps such as the maps from OpenStreetMap, which available for many countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Europe, UK, North America, US, Canada, China, Japan and community maps such as MalFreeMaps and MalSingMaps, can be imported and shown on MapSourc The trick is to download and install Garmin Training Center Software, which comes with a PC Basemap. The most important thing is that the Training Center software is free, and is available for free download for both Windows and Mac OS X platforms. Download Garmin Training Center Software from.
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I've been using my etrex LegendC for a few years without any problems, EXCEPT when I want to download maps I have to fish around for the disks I bought when I bought my gps unit and manually insert them into my computer, each time. Now that I've upgraded to a diskdrive-less netbook, I have to carry around a USB cd-rom reader so I can use my maps. Anyone have a workaround for this problems? Anyone know of some way to install the disk contents on my computer once and for all? (US National parks 24k and US 100k topo on windows xp and vista).
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Thanks, Mike. You could use a virtual DVD drive for what you want to do. I use on my netbook which does not have a drive. You install MagicDisc and when you reboot, it will show up as an icon in the notification area of the task bar. If you look in Windows Explorer (aka My Computer) you will see a new DVD drive. You right-click on the icon in the notification area and tell it to 'mount' an ISO file.
At that point it looks like a DVD drive with a disk in it, ready to go. You would need to make an ISO image of each of your disks and place them in a handy folder on your hard drive. Then when you want to use the maps you would mount the ISO image of the disk that has the maps you need and you're good to go.
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It's a little messy but no worse than having to physically keep loading the CDs. And access will be faster because it's happening off the hard drive. MagicDisc is freeware. You can also use it to make the ISO images of the Topo CDs if you don't already have something you use for that. Just right-click the icon and select 'Make CD/DVD Image.'
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Here is another solution. Uninstall your current MapSource. Then create a new folder (Topo3CDs) inside the now mostly empty MapSource folder. C:/ > Program Files > Garmin > MapSource > Topo3CDs > Then copy and paste each of the CDs into the new folder. Takes a long time. Then open the new folder and double click the MapSource.exe file.