gpsbjorn
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You can help the process quite a bit by manually telling it where you are, I forget the exact procedure but I think it's off the Sat page. You basically pan the map to close to where you are and let it figure the rest.
This of course does assume you have a basemap that can help you with this. In '05 me and the mrs went to NZ and I used a 60CSx to record the bike rides on the north and south islands without difficulty, so your Garmin *will* certainly work well enough there.
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Shouldn't MapSource (Garmin, free, I think) and TopoFusion (Free trial, but don't think the gps download is affected) work well for building a GPX file that you can upload.
GPSBabel may also work directly with your eTrex, but I haven't personally tried that in a long time.
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... has anyone tried using the new 62s with USGS 7.5 minute maps uploaded using the Garmin Custom Maps feature?
I have used TopoFusion to make CustomMaps for my 62st from both USGS Topo downloads and MyTopo downloads and the results have been VERY good. I would not mind having more pixels on screen, but the higher color definition (vs 60CSx) and the custom map data certainly work well for me.
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I haven't gotten around to trying it yet, but TopoFusion seems to do what you are asking for and well supports the Garmin receivers that do custom maps.
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As far as mounts go, my wife zip-tied the "head" from a bike mount for her Colorado to the arm of a RAM mount.
Works a peach in the car, it is how I am upgrading my 60 mount tonight as I can see no reason why it would not work the same for the 62.
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picked up a lighter plug in today at Walmart and my new GPS is at the local fed ex office. Will hopefully have a report by next week.
The car power cable I had for my 60 works fine with my new 62 ... Be sure to get the 2.4 firmware for the Spanner mode support to make sure though ( check out the gpsmap 62 wiki by gpsfix for details ).
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To be clear...
It is a GPSr limitation (not mapsource) that it can only have 2025 map segments. If you install from mapsource to an SD card in a card reader you can put considerably more in, but it will not work correctly.
Garmin Topo US 2008 is 6633 total maps at about 3987.46 Mb of data
- Alaska - 1420 at 847.3 Mb
- Hawaii - 26 at 4.58 Mb
- Puerto Rico - 15 at 6.58
- CONUS - 5172 at 3129.0 Mb
Garmin Topo US (previous) is 6639 total maps at about 1596.69 Mb of data
- Alaska - 1425 at 84.8 Mb
- Hawaii - 27 at 2.29 Mb
- CONUS - 5187 at 1509.6 Mb
( Puerto Rico not included in this edition )
In either case, you would have to break up what you were going to use to fit under the 2025 segment limit.
FYI, it is a *lot* faster to load uSD cards with data with a card reader, than within the GPS as cabled to the PC.
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Also, I don't know if the preprogrammed card would work with Mapsource on a computer.
MapSource doesn't do mapping with info on the memory card, it's the wrong format (it's "cooked" out of the format MapSource does in fact use).
Even if I was only going to use CN with one device, I'd still go with the DVD so I could also use the same data for mapping/routing on a PC *and* have the data not strictly exist on a uSD card that my cat could swallow.
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What is the capacity of the NiMH batteries? 2100mAh?
I've seen 2500 mAh in the wild.
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check out TopoFusion ( www.topofusion.com )
fully-functional tryware version, cost effective, downloads map data (aerial and topographic), does a good job of laying a track or waypoints "onto" the landform.
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My wife just upgraded me to a GPS60CSx, so I have a now to be completely unused Rino 130.
It's 3 or 4 years old, lovingly used but in good shape and 100% perfect functionally.
I've lost the button that screws into the back, for using the belt clip, but have the belt clip. I always carry it in a camelbak so have had little use of it the button myself (I use it mostly when mountain biking, and don't want a crash to cause it to be flung off a cliff and into a river or whatnot).
I have the original manual, data cable, belt clip, NO BUTTON SCREW. I may or may not have the original box - haven't dug around for that yet.
Asking $150+shipping. If that doesn't suit you, feel free to make a sincere offer, I'll feel free to say "Ah, mm, maybe not." Shipping is "free" if you're in the Austin Texas vicinity, as then we could hook up IRL to make the exchange.
Please send me a private message if you're sincerely interested as I don't get to read this forum as regularly as I would like.
Which topo software will meet my needs best?
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Topofusion ( www.topofusion.com ) will easily build garmin style Custom maps from a number of sources.
They end up being raster maps, not vector maps, and can be either tons better or slightly worse. Also, the Custom Maps feature that garmin provides IS somewhat limiting at only allowing 100 tiles on the GPSr at a time.
Custom maps are also not street-routing enables as far as I know, which may or may not be a factor.