[pct-l] maps & software for Garmin & Mac

[Tortoise]

Sometimes free is good, such as Firefox.
Sometimes free is adequate or better for what one needs to do, such as 
OpenOffice and NeoOffice.
Sometimes commercial / professional is the best.
Sometimes what one needs/wants is not available commercially; so one 
makes/improvises or makes do with what is available.

Then there is the personal aspect -- how competent am I, how much time am I 
willing to spend, and how much do I enjoy the project.

So I enjoy fiddling with this stuff until I decide on a different option.
And I have fiddled enough with the free map file so time to go buy.

Tortoise

<> Because truth matters! <>

On 05/28/10 16:39, Bill Burge wrote:
> Yeah, I see stuff about open source, cobble together, etc and look at
> the cost of the Garmin maps and I consider trying to make it work...
> THEN...
>
> I consider what my time is worth and wonder if saving $100 while I
> cuss at the side of a trail because the hacked together stuff is
> showing it's problems and the Garmin maps just work.
>
> I figure in the cost of the Garmin maps I'll need and bill my current
> customer an additional hour of my time and we all get over it and
> continue on with our lives...
>
> BillB
> Typoed on my iPhone!
>
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