Okay, I cleared everything off the Legend, created a route between two locations in Streets&Trips and sent it to the Legend. It only transfers the waypoints (stops). It does not transfer the route.
That's no surprise. It looks like it's using Garmin's Communicator and I think it's only capable of transfering waypoints and not much else.
The first clue that it's only transfering waypoints is the text in the MSN Direct window:
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Your GPS device has been detected and your locations are ready to be transferred.
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Second clue is the text in the next MSN window:
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Unplug your device, and when your GPS device restarts your locations will be available.
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The other thing I did was to export the route to a GPX file and open it in Mapsource. I just had two waypoints in the route, the starting point and the ending point. Because of the way S&T creates the route file you get a direct line between the two in Mapsource, as if you had created an "offroad" route. So all I did was recalculate the route in Mapsource and I had a complete route that I was able to transfer to the Legend so it had a proper usable route.
I tried copying the S&T GPX file to the SD card in the Legend and importing the route that way but there is no function on the Legend to do that so that didn't work for me.
The simplest thing for me, if I ever wanted to use S&T 2010 to plan routes would be to plan the route in S&T, export to GPX, open in Mapsource, recalculate and transfer the working route to the Legend.
An interesting side issue... The route S&T chose was 910km. The route in Mapsource is 771km using "shortest" and 789km using "quickest". I couldn't find a way to force it to use the same route as S&T without inserting some additional points. That's interesting because I used City Navigator North America 2010 which should be using the same Navteq 2009 data as S&T 2010.
So that's what I know at this point.
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