Although this question has probably been asked before, I was unable to find related threads using the board's find feature...so here goes.
I recently purchased a used CD of Garmin's Roads & Recreation Mapsource. First step was to Garmin's site to download the latest (July 11, version 5.0 English only as I type) software.
Next step, install. Smooth, painless. Great. Poke around, select a few map chunks (OK, most of my state and some surrounding counties) and download them to my GPSr (Garmin etrex vista).
Later time to play with the software. Need to have a more accurate waypoint projection than I can do with the GPSr itself so let's try Mapsource. Darn, wants the stupid CD again. OK, which drawer? Got it. Wait, someone else is using the CD drive over the network. Ugh.
Hey, surely someone else has thought about this, is there an (easy) way to not force CD insertion at various usage points?
To those of you thinking that I'm pirating Mapsource, think otherwise. Here's my name and email address for followup, something most thiefs won't do.
Steve Karolek
steve@karoleks.com