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Originally Posted by night0wl
Mapsource no longer works under-way, so its fine for just planning purposes, but if you want to track progress on your laptop, you're SOL. For that, you have to run nroute. But then nroute only works with the last generation of Garmin products (Bluecharts 2008.5).
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I run nRoute (ver. 2.7.6) on a Vista laptop using Americas BlueChart v4.01 and BlueChart Americas v9.0 (both relatively old maps). I also use the Garmin
GPSMap76s (LINK) black and white screen as my GPS (very old).
The only trick and slight PITA is you have to save your Mapsource file with your routes, waypoints, etc. as a Garmin GPS Database Version 2 file (not Database Version 3 file) for the nRoute to import it. Then connecting the GPSMap 76s to the laptop shows real time mapping and lays down track information on the laptop.
I agree though, why not leave all the functionality in Mapsource (the way it used to be) so you don't have to monkey around with the nRoute program.