Somehow this discussion has drifted, and I´m not sure how your wife got into
it.
Why is it fair that you legally can take a copy off a CDmap but not off a
card.

As you write the copy will only work on a specific designated machine(GPS).

I might be dumb, but even I can understand if someone ask me if I want this
or that product, explaining the difference between the two.
My complaint stems from not having been able to deduct a difference in the
mapprogram by way of the media the maps were on, by myself from the web or
GUESS it, when I bought the GPSMAP at a marineEXPO, since neither you or
the salesperson there told me, then.
Please re-read the post again with a friendlier eye.

Not out to scorn Garmin, I think they have a fine product, but I just dont
get it do I.
Will taking a copy froma CD be managable for Garmin and not harm them, but
doing a copy from a card be uncontrolable and swamp us with lawbreakers?
Still do´nt get it.

Hans

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My purpose is to get a legal copy of my PreProgrammed DataCard to use in
my outside steering station GPS, while the original PreProgrammed
DataCard remains in the pilothouse station GPS.

Now, had I bought the mapsoftware on CD, I would have been able to do a
transfer to a blank card AND a legal copy to a second blank card (at
least that what I believe is correct)

That is correct. In fact you could load the info on hundreds of cards
if you wanted to but of course it would only work on two GPS's.

Of course, when I shift steering station I could unplug the card and
insert it into the other GPS.

I just would like Garmin to change policy and allow a copy from a
PreProgrammed DataCard, as they presently do from a CD.

Yes that would be great and then you would have folks copying them and
selling them by the hundreds.

As I write; this restriction is solely on the PreProgrammed DataCards, it
is not obvious to a buyer at the time he/she orders.

I'm not sure how it could be more obvious. Sometimes I think my wife
thinks that I should be in two places at one time but so far she hasn't
let me know how to do that and I haven't been able to figure it out either
We always ask our customers if they are sure they want a pre-programmed
card instead of the software if they indicate that they may want more than
one region or use it on more than one GPS.
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Darrel Goheen

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