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I just checked and the lock on road bug is not fixed.

If you have lots of caches loaded and you go set up, reset, delete all waypoints, it still locks up and shuts down. On this version after you restart the GPS it goes through and reloads everything and the waypoints are all gone. In earlier versions of the firmware when you would restart the waypoints would still be there. So I guess it is progress. They also have not fixed the defect where the ETA at designation does not give the correct ETA if your designation is in another time zone. It gives the ETA in the time zone you are in not the time zone of your designation. The problem with lock on road turning itself on was not fixed in 5.1, its too early to say if 5.20 fixed it.

The problem with the lock up on deleting waypoints when lots of caches are loaded.

MSTK "installs" imgs by adding some entries to the regestry and creating a couple of files. Uninstall removes the entries from the regestry but does not delete any files. You have to do that yourself. If you update your imgs, you need to uninstall the mapset and then reinstall it. If you don't you can get a message that says something like the mapset requires 2 megs but you only have 1 gig free when you try to send the imgs to your GPS.

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The update file can be placed on the GPS or the card. If it is on the card, what you describe can occur. You may have had two update files one on the card and one on the GPS.

Fingers crossed, that's what I'm hoping too! But you probably jinxed it now... Hm, what do you mean? I don't really notice any difference here... Prior to this upgrade it seemed to be much harder to select a cache or some other point on the map. I used to have to get it exactly on the cache or whatever before it would be recognized. Now it works if I am close.

has anyone else noticed it appears to be much easier to select somethingon the map

Well so far ir has not crashed when I import my PQs. Maybe they have finally fixed the problem! However, it still crashes when I do set up, reset, delete all waypoints.

Yes you can download the maps at gpsfiledepot.com for free. But if you can afford it, you can donate to the site and the map authors. Its a lot of work (and many times expense) to maintain the site and create the maps. For example, while there have been hundreds of thousands of downloads, the site does not even recieve enough donations to pay for a dedicated server. So it would be nice to accompany statemetns that they are free, if you can afford it you can donate to the site and map authors.

Since you are from IL, I suspect you are talking about My Topos which I make and just uploaded a new version of. My Topos has topo lines and detailed hydrology. There is also a mapset for just contour lines for IL. The general ideal behind My Topos being transparent was I hated switching back and forth between a topo map and street map. I wanted to be able to auto route when I see topos. My Trails, My POIs, and Eastern Land Ownenship also cover IL and will work with OSM. My Topos is designed to be used with City Navigator, not OSM, but as far as I know it works with OSM. I've never had someone tell me of a problem. But there could be a problem so let me tell you how to tell. One big problem with a transparent topo map is big rivers like the MS and IL Rivers or Lakes will cover up a brodge over the river. However, I use a trick to fool the GPS into drawing the river and lake polygons before the roads are drawn. The result is the rivers and lakes will not cover up a road. To do this, I have to match the draw order of City Navigator and its zoom levels. I believe OSM has th same draw order and zoom levels of CN, but i am not postive. To tell if it is working correctly, load OSM and My Topos and then go look at a bridge across the IL or MS. If you see the bridge, its working correctly, if the river covers the bridge, its not working with it (or if you don't see OSM at all, CN does not match OSM. Here are some tutorials that address your questions: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-open-maps-in-mapsource/ http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-load-maps-on-my-garmin-gps-unit/ http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-change-which-map-is-displayed-on-a-garmin-gps/

To save the contennts of your trip computer, use screen capture.

My Trails has a draw order of 31 (highest) and City Navigator has a draw order of 30. The topo maps will have a draw order of 29 or less. So basically you will always see My Trails and CN will cover up the topos. So just enable and disable CN as needed and all will work. I've spent many hours trying to figure out why it shows up multiple times, but I cannot figure out why.

There is a bug and I have never been able to figure it out, but if you load all of My Trails, it should show up 3 times. Make sure they are all enabled. Sometimes Garmin will also cause incorrect nameing of map sets. My Trails will show on top of everything. So enable everything and see if you see it. Also make sure you have the North and South Caroline Map selected when you send to your GPS.

Its always been random for me too. But the only profile I have the problem with is my Automotive profile. I thought it might be sometime with the profile name so I changed it to car. But it still keeps randomly happening. But this bug is a royal pain. With how accurate the GPS is (it will show which lane I am in) why would anyone want it to lock on the road? 99% of the time when it is off the raod, you are really off the road or the map is wrong. Other than in an urban canyon where the skyscrapers cause you all kinds of problems, I would NEVER want it on lock on road.

Its been happening to me since well before version 5. Garmin so far has only explained what a profile is. They have nt addressed the issue

what do you mean by you cannot see anything? Are you looking whrere the is a trail or POI?

I knew that was your problme as soon as I read your post. But why are you creating tracks that have 50,000 points in GE? I create tracks all the time and a 100 point track is the norm. I suspect you are holding down your mouse button when you draw. I just click point by point. I find this works the best.

Yea, I was thinking there must be a DOS comand that would do it faster. The more I think about it, the more outragedI am that Garmin would create a program that would put 400,000 files on you computer. Those early versions of BaseCamp were surely one of the worst programs ever made.

Go to the gpsfiledepot forums and search on unlock-there are threads on the issue. However, as a map maker I will say its a royal pain to make MAC installers-you have to use a garmin converter and it starts out with all your maps selected and there is no unselect all. So its a royal pain when you have lots of maps loaded. I wish someone would make a program to convert the Windows installer to a MAC installer so we would not have to mess with making a second installer for the MAC users. Or at least make us a MAC converter that is easier to use.

Right after Gsrmin finally got BaseCamp to work (when it would load with birds eye) I remember finding and deleteing 100s of thousands of files-they were the files Garmin put on there when you downloaded birdseye data. The newer versions of BaseCamp (well I thought) download jnk files. Well today after again getting frustrated on how it takes Norton days to do a full scan I noticed for hours it was scanning C:\users\jim\appdata\roaming\garmin\basecamp\gcsoverlays So I checkd out the folder and found 90 numbered directories containing over 400,000 files (more than half of all the files on my computer) It took about 6 hours to delete them. Its been quite a while since I downloaded any birdseye so I am not sure if BaseCamp still adds thousands of files everytime you download. So if you have birdseyye I would check. If you find them, make sure you right click on recycle bin and tell it not to move the files there or it will take another 6 hours to empty your recycle bin. Its very irriating Garmin did not have an update delete these files or warn you. What's even more irriating is I know I did this once before. So I wonder if there was a second location that had hundreds of thousands of files.

???????? What exactly are you doing? POI Loader loads the POIs on your GPS, not your computer. Try using POI loader to load the files GSAK creates on your GPS.

John E Cache, its a difference without a distinction for the purposes of this thread-using it for a kayak trip. Unless, you are going to float a road, road navigation does not matter. For the purposes of a kyak trip, they both work the same.

Distance to Next is a useful feild for stuff like this.

You are in error that the pn 40/60 method would work better. What you describe is the same (just different termonology) with the Garmin. A track on the Garmin works just like your routeable trail. However, while not relavant on a float trip, when you are using it to take a hike, the Garmin track manager will also determine high and low points and add them to your route so you can see how far you have to go until the top. Garmin will also add elevation profile to the track.