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I have a Gizzmovest for an Etrex30. It seems durable enough and weighs next to nothing. My only complaint is that operating the buttons through the Gizzmovest wall is a bit stiff, and I have to press pretty hard. That shouldn't be a problem with a Montana.

Last time I looked it had to be named CustomMaps (no space).

tr_s I think I had a similar problem, and this is how I solved it with an Etrex 30. I had started back on an in and out hike, and was curious how far I had to go. TracBack wouldn't work because it tried to run my entire track in reverse, taking be back uphill to my turn around point. To get around that I saved the track. Copied it in reverse. The track got a name with a exclamation mark in front of it. I then hit Where To and selected the reversed track. With the reversed track selected, the track took me in the direction I was headed, and the trip computer counted down my distance to destination.

Me too, but, to be picky, the compass does point north, its the arrow showing the direction to the waypoint that points to wherever the waypoint or cache is.

Free topo for US from GPSfiledepot.com Ibycus topo for Canada. Don't know how that's distributed. Routable of the whole world from garmin.openstreetmap.nl. These maps have routable trails, but no topo AFAIK.

24k topos aren't locked, City Navigator is padlocked.

OR text entry depends on how big your fingers are. I'm much happier using buttons. Sunlight readability on the OR is fine as long as it's handheld. Fixed position with varying sun angles would be tough.

You can find routable trails, without contours, from garmin.openstreetmap.nl .

Those were Timex watches weren't they?

Sorry, with pictures as attractive as yours who has time to read?

To approximate IPX7 you really need to be at the bottom of a full bathtub (0.5m)or, better at the shallow end of a swimming pool (1.0m).

That should work, but it's two words. But note in my reply above. To just copy the maps it has to be a new generation Garmin, like your 62s.

Free topo maps for the US here. Free road maps for the whole world here.

Depends on what unit your daughter has. Garmin DK,OR,62s,78,Etrex 10/20/30, and Montana will take maps in the format you have them on your 62s. Garmin 60CSX, Older Etrex, 76CSX, etc. will only take a single gmapsupp.img file, so if you have multiple files on your 62s you'll need to send them as a single gmapsupp.img in MapSource. As savant9 said trying to send a locked file like CNNANT to the wrong unit can spoil your day. And of course it won't work unless her unit's a Garmin. Also, FWIW, MapSource is a viewer, not a compiler. cgpsmapper and mkgmap are compilers.

Both probably more useful than the 3D view or hill shading.

Between the two, I would lean toward the eTrex 30 with it's electronic compass and barometric altimeter. Myself, I got me the GPSMAP 62s To elaborate, 62 is a limited device, NO removable memory, NO electronic compass, NO barometric altimeter. (All those feature are in the 62s and Etrex 30.)

Routability was not mentioned either way in the OP, and the OP may not know the difference. But if you follow any BaseCamp forums you'll see lots of questions about why won't my (non-routable) map route? I thought the distinction between Phlatlander's link and yours was worth pointing out. If the OP wants a routable topo map of VA, he'll probably want one of the Garmin 24k series.

Most of those maps aren't routable, like the ones from garmin.openstreetmap.nl, but they will have contours and probably higher quality rendering of water features.

Don't own a CO, but assumed it had the same latch as my other handhelds. The microSD sits under a little silver clip that slides. On my OR down is locked, up is open. Am I wrong about the CO?

Card size 32GB or less. Only 4GB can be used for vector maps. Maps from garmin.openstreetmap.nl. Be sure to lock the little silver latch next time.

GPSfileDepot maps are 24k maps. 24k has higher resolution than the 100k maps that come with the 450t. You can buy 24k maps from Garmin, which are routable. They list for about 125 USD per section of the US. Most of the maps at GPSfileDepot aren't routable, but you can get free routable road maps from garmin.openstreetmap.nl .

Pretty much what Walt said, but the topo map also includes data that will generate hill shading and 3D views. Not much IMO, but a feature some folks value.

I don't own it, but I've read that G-raster does something like that.

I don't understand what you mean by "topographical card". Normally most folks here refer to "card" as meaning an SD card. You should be able to use MapInstall to load a number of maps onto an SD card. Note coggins remark about FIDs above. If you are installing multiple downloads from garmin.openstreetmaps.nl you will have multiple maps with the same FID. That's a problem and explains why they won't install. Much easier to select all the maps you want as a single download select the "RoadTrip" installer (also works with BaseCamp), and install them all at once into BaseCamp. A Mac user will need to tell you how to clean up your old OSM mapsets.

LWM, are the tracks you created in BC showing up in the track manager? Also, in your OP you say tracks are on basemap, do you mean BaseCamp? Just sent a track recorded on my 405cx and exported to BaseCamp then from BaseCamp to the memory card on my 62s. It shows up fine, but I had named the GPX on my hard drive. After exporting to the 62s, the name was changed to the "time/date stamp".GPX