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christo.rope
RodHill has asked several pertinent questions (Thanks for stepping in Rod), but we need to clarify one or two points.
Garmap don't offer mapsets for downloading (not yet, anyway), and we don't unfortunately discuss maps made or distributed by other companies (for obvious reasons: we don't make them).
Then, if you bought the 710 locally, it would have come preloaded with a Garmap mapset; this would require you to register the unit under the 'plug and play' banner on our home page.
And, no, you can't use MapSource: hence Bobcat for the Mac users. And while Garmin in the USA offer Bobcat, the local agents - Avnic - are not yet geared up to offer Mac adapted mapsets or support for local Mac users.
Now this is where us PC users enter often unexplored territory: we don't have much expertise in this area, so we're learning as we go along. My suggestion below is therefore highly speculative (and I should not actually offer it).
If you want to use one of our Garmap mapsets in Bobcat, you will need to acquire the Garmap African Series 2008 DVD (if you want the lastest version).
You would then have to install MapSource off this DVD onto a PC (I know.... yuk). Having done that you would have to unlock and download the mapset onto your 710.
This, I understand, sets you up for using Garmap on the Mac with Bobcat provided that you go to the next step: convert Garmap for use on Bobcat using 'MapConverterforWindows_2003Beta.exe (see Gondwana's post here on the link here suggested by RodHill).
This is where my limited expertise ends. Would suggest that you read the discussion on the link and also send specific Bobcat questions to this email address - mac.bobcat@garmin.com (although they in turn will not be able to assist you on Garmap issues; even though we make these mapsets under license from them).
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