Mapsource cant find French address

[millard]

MikeP/TJ, thanks, I reckon I'll get one of those to work OK.
Cheers
millard

 

[araspitfire]

For those tired of Mapsource find 'fun'...

Garmin have produced a browser plugin that allows you to save google maps finds directly to your (USB) GPS as a waypoint...

(you could then download from the GPS and use the points to do travel planning if you want... dunno why they don't allow saving to Mapsource...)

http://my.garmin.com/locate/google-sendtoGPSHelp.htm

Al....

 

[Andy B]

Would someone do me a favour!

Would someone give me set by set instructions how to find this address in Mapsource!

http://www.alpineaddictsmorzine.com/contact_us.htm

Thanks

 

[John Armstrong]

Would someone give me set by set instructions how to find this address in Mapsource!

http://www.alpineaddictsmorzine.com/contact_us.htm

Thanks

GPS Location: North: 46º 11' 022" East: 6º 39' 401" according to their home page. Make a waypoint somewhere near to there, eg Annecy and then tweak the mapsource waypoints lat / long to reflect theirs = waypoint that should be near to it!

Or: http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=46.18744,6.66748|13|4&loc=FR:46.18744:6.66748:14|la cote d'arbroz|La Côte-d'Arbroz, Haute-Savoie if you click on the globe / compass thingy below their e-mail address.

That help?

Granted not the way of search etc using mapsource, but then I guess you've found that isn't the easiest way a lot of the time?

 

[Shurv]

Reading about all these "peculiarities" with Garmin and mapsourse makes me glad I sold mine. I could never get on with it and felt the software rather poor and obstructive to use. I now use a Becker sat nav which has found everything I have asked for in seconds. It is sooo much better than Garmin.

 

[Andy B]

It's the Mapsource route planning I'm finding a challenge. I picked a bad example because it had the co-ordinates on their website!

We arrived at Alpine Addicts in the dark in a quite a remote location and the co-ordinates were not quite right (the ones on there now are from my Zumo). That said, the Zumo recon'd it was only accurate to 20m at the time.

 

[(RIP) Shenzi]

Reading about all these "peculiarities" with Garmin and mapsourse makes me glad I sold mine. I could never get on with it and felt the software rather poor and obstructive to use. I now use a Becker sat nav which has found everything I have asked for in seconds. It is sooo much better than Garmin.[/QUOT

Which cartography does the Becker use and how much are the updates? Just had a look at some but didn't find a waterproof one so I guess that makes them pretty useless for bikes in the semi aquatic UK. Do they come with mapping software?
If I remember correctly their radios used to be fitted to Mercs and were very good.