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Differences in distance

Former Member
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I have created a route in Mapsource and uploaded it to my Garmin Dakota 20. The distance of the route was about 13 km.
After completing the hike the Dakota device indicated a total distance of only 10 km. After downloading the track to my computer Mapsource indicated a track distance of 12.5 km (which is a plausible value).

What is the explanation of the difference between the Mapsource value and the Dakota value?

(PS. Posted this question in the Mapsource forum as well, but did not get any repsonse there. So sorry for the double posting).