ozrockrat said:
...I am stuck with all my software in the US and my GPS here...
There is an easy workaround for that problem. Have someone at home launch MapSource on your computer, then go to the UTILITIES menu, choose the UNLOCK MAPS command, then select the BACKUP UNLOCK CODES TO A FILE option from the dialog that follows. The file that is create will be tiny - one kb at most, which is less than the size of this paragraph.
Have them email that file to you as an attachment to an email. Although the suffix on the file will be .unl , the truth is that it is nothing more than a text file (you can view the contents with any text editor, it is not encrypted). As I mentioned, it will be a very, very tiny file - a single kilobyte, tops. You could fit 1,000 such files on a single floppy disc.
Once you have that file, copy it onto any computer you come across (for example, at a friends, or at a Garmin dealer) that has the same map products as you own loaded on to it (e.g. CN Europe 6, or CN America 7, or whatever). You do that through the same UTILITIES / UNLOCK MAPS command, except you choose RETRIEVE AND INSTALL MY UNLOCK CODES, instead of back them up.
Once you have done that - you will have full access to the appropriate map products on the second computer, and you can transfer whatever you want to your own GPSR. There is nothing wrong with doing that and it does not violate the spirit or the letter of any of the licencing agreements. The unlock keys are tied to your personal GPSR, which means that whoever owns that second computer won't be able to load the maps onto any GPSR other than their own (assuming they have unlock codes installed already for their own GPSR), or yours.
Michael
