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I found my 1st cache last week and now I am hooked. I got my Etrex Vista today. I was reading how to use it and it mentions using Garmin Mapsource CD. My question is... I have Street Atlas Road Warrior CD, Street Atlas USA, Rand McNally Route Planner, Street & Trips 2001, Streetfinder and Map and GO. Will any of these work with my Vista or do I need to get the Mapsource Cd? Like I said, I am new to this... still reading... but would love to download some maps/streets to the unit if I can, without buying the Garmin CD.. for now !

 

Thanks in advance !!

 

Rock

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Using the Street Atlas programs you can download waypoints and routes to your Vista. Both these programs and some of your others will let you connect the Vista to a laptop and give a moving map display on the laptop - nice for driving but not too useful for hiking.

However, nothing but the various flavors of MapSource maps from Garmin (Roads & Rec., MetroGuide, Topo, Waterways & Lights, Fishing, etc.) will let you download maps that display right on your Vista screen.

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