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Garmin MapSource And/Or Base Camp On A Portable USB Flash Drive

 
Fri, 12/09/2011 - 9:55pm

I know that jump drives are pretty reasonable priced now and I am just wondering if anybody here has installed Garmin MapSource and/or Garmin Base Camp on a portable USB flash drive? I was thinking that when I travel, it might be handy to be able to just install that on a hotel computer if I just want to look at a map quick.

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Fri, 12/09/2011 - 11:47pm

I haven't done it, but a

I haven't done it, but a portable version of the apps does exist that can simply be unzipped to a USB stick and is self-contained. The secret? The various apps in the portable versions were created using VMWare Thinapp.

http://www.multiupload.com/SNPZC994UH

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