Download Mapsource Garmin Full Version
Brandi Wendelberger
Yeh it won't load my trail overlay maps. Says its not garmin mapping. I hope this is not the way they are going to force people to use garmin maps only in future versions of mapsource. Rolled back to previous version
I had kept up, somewhat, with others complaining that the Ibycus maps would not work properly with the beta version so I never swithched to it. Looks like I'll still stay with v6.13.7 until they get 6.14.1 working properly. Sure hope Garmin is not intentionallly trying to complicate things for those of us using custom maps, if they are that would be enough to make me want to no longer be Garmin loyal. With all of the issues with the Colorado, and appears to be some with the Oregon, the drifting and odometer issues with the Extrex H's, and now issuses with Mapsource updates it leads me to believe that Garmin may not be the well run company that it once was.
I just downloaded 6.14.1 and I have the Colo 24K Topos from Above the Timber, theirs no problem with those maps on 6.14.1. On the contrary, theirs a class of road which was almost invisible on 6.13.7 which is now very much improved. Others have called this Nuvi-like. Whatever, a win for me.
Two problems I've seen with this new version of MapSource. One, it tries to draw the maps the same way Google Maps does, which really slows the process down. Two, with the BlueCharts, having the spot soundings turned on only makes one or two of them visible.
I've had this problem before and it was a screen size issue. The program doesn't resize the program window based on your selected screen size so the button isn't displayed in the window frame. Try resizing your screen to to a standard 1024x768 or even 800x600 and rerun the program and see if the "next" button shows up then.
What the new version of Mapsource gains in aesthetics it looses in usability. I'm running a quad core 3GHz on a high end system and I find it annoyingly slow to redraw. I can't imagine how this might run on an older system. It would be nice if the old rendering method was an option in the settings.
Well until Garmin address this there is an easy fix. Before you install make a copy of the mapsource.exe file (old one) and put it aside. Install the new 6.14.1. When the install is complete copy the old mapsource.exe (renamed of course) mapsource_old.exe for example to your mapsource folder. Note you only need the mapsource EXE. Its about 10meg.
If I want to capture a screen with a nice map, or print a nice looking map I load the new mapsource, Mapsource HD ;-). If all I'm doing is searching for locations or messing about I load the older version.
What I would really like to see is Garmin add a simple render button to the button bar. Then I could simply pan around in the less CPU intensive version and once I have what I want on screen, I simply press render (click) and the pretty map appears.
I played around with the font size in 6.14.1, because some of the MapSource text shrunk and is rather hard to read, like the blue text for POI's got smaller. After messing with the font size I noticed the text on my waypoints no longer were displayed. I tried all the options but no waypoint text. So I decided to reinstall 6.13.7 without uninstall 6.14.1 first. This went fine, but I still get the 6.14.1 multicolor/larger icons?? So I then uninstalled 6.13.7. Thus no MapSource on my computer, and then reinstall 6.13.7. Now I still see the 6.14.1 icons. I don't have a problem looking at the new icons but if anyone knows how I can go back to the 6.13.7 icons please tell me, in case I want to have a complete 6.13.7 system.
I just updated the new version to my Vista laptop. No problems with the download or install. However, not sure I like the look of the new version. Might play with it for a week or so before deciding if I want to go back to the older version. It does run slower than the old version.
Definitely don't like the slowness of this new version. Wish I never deleted 6.13.7 from my computer. I have the older version on my desktop, think I'll see if I can delete 6.14.1 from my laptop and transfer the older version to it.
As posted in my earlier post you don't need to make it an all or nothing preposition. Just get a copy of the mpasourse.exe from your desktop presumably a 6.13.x version, rename it and copy it to your new install. Make a shortcut to this file, and there you go you have both. Only ads 10meg to the size of the install.
By the way there is no reason this thing runs so dadgum slow. If it took advantage of any hardware acceleration this thing would be lightning fast. It appears to use old visual basic APIs that are notoriously slow!
On one of my machine, all the waypoint names is not displaced though (as some posts reported here ). That map database contains non english characters on some waypoints, perhaps any of one them can become a show stopper
I recently re-installed Windows 8 on my Laptop. Before doing so, I backed up my garmin files. Seeing I had the setup.exe file in one of the folders, I thought I was ok. I could dig around to find my CD's but they could be anywhere. I think I installed before without them but this time, it's telling me it can't find certain files. If anyone can help it would be appreciated. If you need more info... ask away :-)
That is just a patch file, not the full program. Mapsource was not available as a download like base camp. It came with the map products. There was a way to snarf it with a tutorial program but I forget the details. Besides that program is probably not around anymore. I think the procedure use to be documented on gpsfilesdepot.
The link I provided is for both. Look carefully. The patch file is that little 2.2MB bit. The entire app is obtained using 57.05MB v6.16.3 updater download. For that updater exe to succeed, however, it will require that a previous version load shows up somewhere in the registry. With any luck, he's been able to get far enough through that process with what he had that the updater will overlay whatever he's already got. Certainly worth a try. If it doesn't fly, a minor registry tweak will set it all right again such that the v6.16.3 download will complete. If need be, the OP should send me an email about that and I'll take care of it for him.
As I mentioned before, when I run the setup file, it hits a wall when it looks for specific files. I do have a file named "Disk 1". Is it possible that it's looking for files in that folder? If so, how can I get it to look there? it doesn't give me a browse option. I seem to recall it working the last time I updated my PC by running the setup file from a specific folder or somewhere...
Here's what I did... I copied the 4 lines as suggested, saved it as a .reg file. I opened the registry editor (regedit) and clicked file, import and selected the file I just created. At first it gave me a message about restoring the key on top of key "Computer" and replacing everything under it... yikes! so I created one that was named Garmin and tried to import it. I got the following error message: "Cannot import C:\Users\***.reg the specified file is not a registry file. You can only import a registry file."
As previously stated, when I try to install my map products (CanadaTOPO and US Topo) I keep getting an error message that it can't find a "source file". It specifies the path where it should be and when I look, it's there. Why can't it find it?
First, double clicking on a *.reg file will add it to the registry automatically. Never do this unless you're dead sure of the content of the *.reg, though. There are a few out there designed to hurt you. In this case, you can see exactly what's in it since you're creating it yourself from the text above. The addition (or replacement) is specific to the 'path' identified in the content of the *.reg. It doesn't disturb anything else in the registry.
Now ... the original question was about loading Mapsource, not associated maps. That's another can of worms entirely. I don't consider helping someone re-install Mapsource (which Garmin claims to be obsolete anyway) an issue, but installing maps without the discs is another story. It can be done, but it's a chocolately mess to accomplish since Garmin takes a rather different approach to installation with *.exe files.
My Bad for not using the proper terminology... I realized that once Mapsource was installed but I still had to get the Maps in there. In my world, I saw the whole thing as Mapsource since that's how it was packaged when I bought it a number of years (and PC's/Laptops/OS's ago). I'll do some digging around the house and i'm sure i'll come upon my TOPO Canada Maps. TOPO USA... they could be harder to find but I can do without.
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