Garmin GPS - MapSource going down the drain

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MapSource going down the drain

Hans-Georg Michna

2007-02-07, 7:33 am

What's wrong with Garmin? They used to deliver first-rate
quality, but now at least the software looks like garbage to me.

It begins with installing MapSource in the wrong language, in my
case, German, even though I had always installed it in English,
as long as that was possible. This is already a killer.

Then the software stops working properly, as soon as I do
something that isn't absolutely trivial. Latest example:

I export a track in tab-delimited text format. Then I attempt to
read that same file back in. I get a dialog box stating that
this is not a valid format.

Is this one of those malevolent attempts to close the box? Or is
it just plain stupidity and a total lack of quality assurance?

Does anybody know workarounds?

Hans-Georg

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Ramon F Herrera

2007-02-07, 7:33 am

On Feb 7, 6:39 am, Hans-Georg Michna <hans-
georgNoEmailPle...@michna.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with Garmin? They used to deliver first-rate
> quality, but now at least the software looks like garbage to me.
>
> It begins with installing MapSource in the wrong language, in my
> case, German, even though I had always installed it in English,
> as long as that was possible. This is already a killer.
>
> Then the software stops working properly, as soon as I do
> something that isn't absolutely trivial. Latest example:
>
> I export a track in tab-delimited text format. Then I attempt to
> read that same file back in. I get a dialog box stating that
> this is not a valid format.
>
> Is this one of those malevolent attempts to close the box? Or is
> it just plain stupidity and a total lack of quality assurance?
>
> Does anybody know workarounds?
>
> Hans-Georg
>
> --
> No mail, please.

I concur. I have had several StreetPilots and n=FCvis, and every time I
transfer my POIs from the old to the recently purchased GPS the
addresses and phone numbers are lost. This is very annoying and I am
disappointed at Garmin.

The current version of MapSource simply discards phone numbers and
addresses, even when making a transfer from a n=FCvi to another.

-Ramon

Martin

2007-02-07, 10:33 pm

>The current version of MapSource simply discards phone numbers and
>addresses, even when making a transfer from a nüvi to another.

Wow! Thanks for the warning! I was about to purchase Mapsource, because I
thought it would be the ONE program that copes with phone numbers. I shall
not buy it!

Ramon F Herrera

2007-02-08, 10:33 am

On Feb 7, 8:51 pm, "Martin" <mar...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> Wow! Thanks for the warning! I was about to purchase Mapsource, because=
I
> thought it would be the ONE program that copes with phone numbers. I sha=
ll
> not buy it!

I thought MapSource came for free with all Garmis GPSs. (?)

My first instinct when I wanted to copy the POIs between two n=FCvis was
that dragging and dropping would be the method. However, when I called
Garmin they told me that the appropriate method is through MapSource,
which promptly proceeded to discard all my addresses and phone
numbers.

-Ramon

Hans-Georg Michna

2007-02-11, 4:33 am

On 8 Feb 2007 07:34:22 -0800, Ramon F Herrera wrote:

>On Feb 7, 8:51 pm, "Martin" <mar...@nospam.com> wrote:

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>I thought MapSource came for free with all Garmis GPSs. (?)
>
>My first instinct when I wanted to copy the POIs between two nüvis was
>that dragging and dropping would be the method. However, when I called
>Garmin they told me that the appropriate method is through MapSource,
>which promptly proceeded to discard all my addresses and phone
>numbers.

Ramon, all,

it seems that MapSource has got into the wrong hands at Garmin,
if it suddenly develops various severe defects.

I hope it's not the entire company, or is this the right time to
sell your Garmin stock? I, for one, am delaying a planned Garmin
device purchase, out of fear of poor quality.

Hans-Georg

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