Baumer

That's an impressive list of updates. This is my first Garmin product after owning the old yellow Sportrak, then a Sportrak Pro, then a 500LE. I was always envious of the support I heard about from Garmin, and it weighed heavily on my decision to put off buying a Triton, and picking the Colorado instead. So far I'm thrilled with their support of this unit.

Part of the annoyance is LifeOnEdge, is that knowing a higher level of backlighting is there, yet I can't access it. I understand your logic, and agree with some of it. but, I do know this, there are times I have been using my Colorado when I wished the display was brighter.

Yes, and the display of street names.

The lack of brightness is starting to bring me down a bit as well. There is a brief moment when you plug the data cable in where the screen goes very bright, but I've never seen it this bright in battery operation, even with the backlight "fully" lit. I think I get this full brightness as well with the DC power kit. You can read the screen, it's just "dim".

www.gpsvisualizer.com earth.google.com enjoy

Why can't we get this when we pull the data cable out?

like thus

export to or open the track file directly in google earth, modify the properties of the track it generates to "pin to ground"

btw, I was getting intersection zoom while autorouting yesterday, using CN 2008 NT maps operating in Automotive profile. I was zoomed out significantly for this to do this

or you could try this http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=170615

I've seen street names displayed for upcoming intersections, while autorouting, but not always

The auto kit comes with a flat smooth disk you can try to mount somewhere other than your windshield.

Working great with City Navigator 2008 NT. I really like the auto re-routing. it looks like this, for all practical purposes, it's a Nuvi

Download your tracks from your GPS to any convenient location. Follow the link in my post above to create the graph, I used a photo editing program to superimpose it over a Google Earth Screenshot. The rest was done at the same website, you can convert your tracks to KML, and then create a topo overlay for google earth as well, all at GPS visualizer

I agree Garmin has some responsibility here, but I can't imagine sticking my new $600 GPSr in a glass of water "just to see".

There is very little trail data available on any set, except perhaps the National Park Series. You get a few trailheads in Topo 2008, but not the actual trails. City navigator is required to get any kind of auto routing going, I'd spend my money there first. You can cache without topos, but you cant route without street maps of some kind. All of Topo2008 (preloaded to the 400T) plus City Navigator maps for 6 midwestern states is about 4GB

a compass affected by other electronic devices and pieces of metal? Wierd!

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/profile offers many free applications, that when combined with track data and google earth can do things like this... Both are free.

Torrents are a means to share large files over the internet, The basic premise is that instead of downloading large files from a single source, you download many pieces of the file from many different sources. It is a peer to peer system, meaning users share files amongst each other, their is no central location where files are stored. A torrent is really just a way to connect all these people together. Torrent sites, such as www.piratebay.org which has been in the news lately, are nothing more than directories and search engines for these groups of people sharing files amongst themselves. They operate in a very grey area of copyright law. It is a haven for illegal pirated software. All current Garmin software products are available with working cracks to get around all copy protection. Up until a few years ago, Magellan and Garmin avoided the attention of the warez scene, but GPS is too mainstream now. It is discouraging to pay top dollar for software and know others aren't doing the same.

Just because a vest is bullet resistant, you don't have people intentionally shoot at you.

I beleive You need to have an auto routing Map such as City Navigator loaded to take advantage of turn by turn routing. This is what I've done, and the turn by turn works fine.

here's an annoyance, completely my fault I uploaded a City Navigator map that took up all but 3M of the internal card. I then went to run the firmware update software. It needed 7M so it aborted. Luckily, I had just backed up the contents of K:/Garmin to my hard drive. Can I just copy gmapsupp.img back over? I guess I need to ask can I simply delete the file thru windows?

so, I should run this Colorado_2.30,exe thingy huh?

How can I determine what firmware is installed. I have run webupdater and it finds no updates, yet, I dont recall it updating the firmware ever, it did update the chip. I couldn't find a manual download either.

Feature Request : Landscape mode display option, particularly in automotive mode