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Why WiFi? Any mapping GPSr will hold a map of your area of interest and cache locations. And the whole idea of GPS is to work ANYWHERE there's a clear view of the sky, not just near WiFi or a cell tower. I can see where you'd need cellular access for traffic updates, but you certainly don't need that to cache.

Cool, thanks! I have the 1490 and wondered. Now I know! MapInstall 4.0 put the IMG files in the wrong folder. MapInstall 4.0.1 puts them in the right one.

The folder on the card needs to be called Map, not Garmin.

Since there's not a lot of extra room in internal memory on a 1490 I assume you are loading to a card. If so, the gmapsupp.img should go in the Map folder on the card, not the Garmin folder.

G-Raster will convert your geotiffs to KMZ. Press the Load Button to import the geotiff. The SaveAsKMZ button writes the KMZ. The KMZ is a Garmin CustomMap. Drag and drop it in your CustomMap(no space) folder in the Garmin folder on your 62s internal memory or card.

BaseCamp will do this, you can even geotag photos from a regular digital camera. You can also do that with Geosetter. In both cases you synchronize the time stamps on the photos to the tracklog.

G-raster will do it for geopdfs, and a registered version is only 5 USD. You can also get free geopdfs from the USGS Data Store. (Geopdfs are georeferenced. Assume yours are, but if not you'll need to reference them.)

Actually, you could load the old Non-NT version of CNNANT onto two devices.

Sometimes getting the right information is like pulling teeth. Sometimes it takes thumbscrews. As I said above, there are 8 maps that fit your original description. They are probably all compiled by different map authors, so knowing which map is important.

The 60CSX is USB 1.x . Most card readers now are USB 2.0 or higher. Data transfer using a USB 2.0 device is at least 4 times faster. gdpalumbo, your error sounds like a bad card to me. Try another card if you have one, or backup and format that one (in a card reader).

GPSFileDepot's page for Oregon lists 8 topos. Which one? Also, what do you mean "developed on a Garmin Oregon"? How do you know how it was developed?

Did you have fully charged batteries when you re-started? I've read that actual firmware burn occurs while that progress bar is occurring.

A few more things to add to what snowfleurys just said: Most (or all?) handheld Garmin's don't come with any maps except a very rudimentary basemap, so you'll need to get better maps from somewhere if you want maps on your GPSr. $400 should buy you a pretty nice Garmin, unless you need to pay for maps. Garmin nuvi driving GPSrs come with a routable map. A routable map of that quality for the US and Canada will cost you about $70 at Amazon. You can get free routable maps from garmin.openstreetmap.nl, but their quality varies depending on location. I'd be sure to check the map carefully before I trusted a garmin.openstreetmap.nl map to get me out of a bad neighborhood. My nuvi has done this several times and was extremely useful navigating expressway spaghetti in Nashville, TN. nuvis aren't as durable as handhelds (not waterproof for example) or as geocaching friendly (a nuvi might only run for about 3 hours on its internal battery). Something to think about if you plan to spend time in the woods.

You may see swamps on a good current vector map or satellite imagery, but both satellite and vector data are updated once a year at best, so if you're not likely to see buildings, unless they've been there a while and fences unless somebody thought they were important enough to map, or they are really big (like the Great Wall) so they show up on satellite imagery.

It's pretty much a right handed device. Might not be good if he has arthritis. Thumb operates Power, Back, and joystick. Index finger operates in and out zoom. Middle finger works Menu. And the display is pretty small if he has any vision problems. Otherwise, I love mine.

Well it's obviously doing much more complicated calculation in metric to figure out lat and lon. Maybe it's too aware of history, and is afraid if it gets it right it will be guillotined. (Metric system was a French Revolutionary invention after all.)

Follow up: After 1 hour and 35 minutes of stopped time and 12 seconds of moving time my stationary Etrex 30 shows a spiderweb track distance of .1 miles, but the trip odometer still says 26 ft.

Thanks, phlatlander. Gives me an opportunity to point out that the site you pointed to is where folks should go to add tracks and correct errors in the map.

True if you are just looking for measurements, but if you are on the trail, the odometer is a lot easier to access than tracklog stats. FWIW, my first response from an email asking the same thing to Garmin was: Maybe they don't know the answer either. PS: My Etrex30 is started on my window sill and the trip computer is indicating moving time of 8 seconds, a stopped time of 19 minutes, and a trip odometer of 26 feet. That trip odometer reading hasn't changed since I first observed it, so I'm thinking it occured during the first 8 seconds. GPS accuracy on the satellite screen shows 9 feet. 16 satellites showing (All GPS, no GLONASS - GLONASS turned off)

Yes Yes Tracklog was saved and cleared at the end of the trip. Trip odometer was read when tracklog was saved. Since both measurements were continuous any spiderwebs should have been incorporated into both measurements. If anything, I'd have expected the trip odometer to exclude the spiderwebs. I'll give it a try. I've done spiderwebs before, but never compared them with the trip odometer.

AFAIK, OpenStreetMap does not provide maps for Magellans, and the site Phlatlander posted was to the mapping site, not the site that provides GPSr maps. This site only provides free maps for Garmins.

If they are Registry "Installed" IMG files, they can be wherever the installer puts them. If they're GMAP (new format files) they're where MtnHermit says they are. Search for *.img and hope you don't find any disk images.

If your phone will work overseas, you can probably find maps for it. Otherwise, you should probably add a little more information about what you plan to do with the GPSr. Do you plan to use it to give you driving directions? What countries do you plan to visit. If you buy a GPSr in Canada and you want to use it for driving you should probably pay for a set of maps that cover where you want to go (which will probably blow your 200CDN budget). If you are just hiking/cacheing you may be able to get away with free maps.

This was a whole lot better in MapSource, where it would show you the entire list of tile sizes and the grand total. In MapInstall(BaseCamp's separate maploader) you can only see a histogram of how much space is available empty or used (green) on the side of the map selection screen.

That looks like a simple rounding error, but it's a pretty small sample. Of course you're setting to Record By Distance could help as well. My 19/20 mile sample was set to automatic.