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    Searching 4 Bucky5

    in Canada

    Posted

    Does anyone know about Bucky5? It looks like he has geocached in the Hamilton area in Ontario and in Alberta. I tried to email him, however he did not respond. Hopefully he is OK. Geosmitti :rolleyes:

    Canadian Needs Help

    in Benchmarking

    Posted

    I have topo 31L04 in Ontario. On the map there are at least 3 triangle benchmark locations. I have been able to find 2 of them (of course the one I want is not one of them) from Natural Resources Canada website. They are Sandy Island 46° 14' 42.0"N 79° 52' 55.2"W and Cross Point 46° 12' 28.8"N 79° 41' 52.8"W. The one which I would like to get the exact co-ordinates for is at (approximately) 46°10'12.9"N, 79°56'15.0"W on the boundary of Patterson and Hardy Townships in Parry Sound District. I would greatly appreciate if anyone could tell me where to lookup the exact co-ordinates for this location.

    Garmin GB Discoverer

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Are you happy with your Garmin TOPO GB? I have Garmin TOPO for Canada. It doesn’t have the detail you would expect from a good TOPO map or OS map, but you can see it with out the blurs and it seems to be quite accurate.

     

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    Thanks for the screen shots - I am a novice and I am not sure what they are. Are they both topo or is 1 a Discoverer? Love the flag of Wales!

     

    I can see by the thread that you have had lots of experience with Garmin Discoverer. Are the bugs being resolved? Would you buy it again?

    Garmin GB Discoverer

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Can the Garmin Discoverer SD card maps be transferred and viewed on a computer. I currently have Garmin TOPO GB maps loaded on my computer but can remember reading

     

    "Maps on microSD/SD cards cannot be copied or viewed on a computer."

     

    I was interested in the Garmin Discoverer, however, with what I have read in this thread I will pass. Are you happy with your Garmin TOPO GB? I have Garmin TOPO for Canada. It doesn’t have the detail you would expect from a good TOPO map or OS map, but you can see it with out the blurs and it seems to be quite accurate.

    Road Angel Adventure 7000

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    your Colorado 300 is a fine tool and would be ideal to bring with you.

    also get some OS paper maps of the area you want to walk in.

    i cant say what parts of the uk i like most.

    (i have not seen it all yet)

    but at the moment i love the lake district.

     

    i bought garmins northern england topo on micro sd card

    i can say it is as accurate as memorymap and OS paper maps.

    it just lacks detail.

    but it does have all the stuff i need like contours / paths & watercoarses.

    so if you use memory map to plan your route and transfer it to your

    Colorado 300 with topo installed, you have an awesome navigation device.

    and dont forget to take a paper map along too.

     

    i allways carry a paper map and compass. just in case.

    Good advise about the map and compass!

     

    The lack of detail is what put me off with the Canadian Topo. Your advice is good because if I downloaded routes from MM, had the UK Topos on the 300 and had the OS paper map – I would have a good set up. I am going to look into the OS/Garmin maps that you mentioned earlier.

     

    You mentioned contours, paths & watercourses. Does the Garmin UK Topo have the walking footpaths as the OS maps do?

     

    Would May and/or June be a good time to go to the Lake District? We like May/June as they’re not so many or us guys around (tourists), the days are longer and the spring colors in the UK are dynamic.

     

    One of the features I like about the Road Angel is that I could use my good Canadian Topos on it as well as the marine charts that I have for the lake and river area where we spend a lot of time. Of course in the end – money will probably be the deciding factor – especially these days.

    Road Angel Adventure 7000

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    No worries, ask away when your ready

    I checked for RA 7000 Navigator and it appears that RA has replaced the 7000 with the 9000. The 9000 sounds like quite a unit, however, probably more than I need. RA web site indicated that RA 7000 Adventurer is still available from MM and that RA 7000 Navigator might still be available from a retailer who has stock. Would you be aware of a retailer or website that you have faith in and that might have a 7000N in stock?

     

    Do I have this correct? You use your 7000N with SD cards. From your computer you have loaded on each SD card a copy of MM software and the maps for a particular area. Does each card have the Sat Nav on it? Where did the Sat Nav come from? Was it on the 7000N when you purchased it and then you loaded it onto each of the SD cards. I am assuming that there is 1 SD card slot. Any reason you did not get a larger GB SD card and have fewer cards?

     

    I could do the same thing. I have MM software on my laptop and MM OS maps – Cotswolds and Norfolk Broads – and AZ map – Greater London. I could load the info on to SD cards.

     

    Does the 7000N come with turn-by-turn voice directions for the UK with in-car satellite navigation and a UK road map? So if you didn’t have MM or any other maps, you could put the unit right out of the box on the car dash and drive off?

     

    My wife and I have vacationed in England 4 times for a total time of a little over 4 months. People always ask us what is your favorite part and would you go back to a specific area. We say wherever we have been is our favorite spot, yes we would go back to every place we have been and yes we want to go to very place we haven’t been. Do you have a favorite place to walk and/or GPS that you would recommend to a couple in their sixties that are able to walk pretty well? Not rock or mountain climbers! We always manage, at times, to get ourselves lost or mixed up, but the nice thing about that is that we have found some neat stuff we knew nothing about and have met some friendly people that helped us out. Actually, we say we are never lost – we just don’t know where we are!

    Road Angel Adventure 7000

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    oh, the road angel lost out because it did not take AA batterys.

    i needed a unit that could be left on all the time i was out and

    cope with real low temps. the RA is a good mapping gps though.

    Yes, I can see battery life is a factor. My wife and I have vacationed in England 4 times for a total time of a little over 4 months. People always ask us what is your favorite part and would you go back to a specific area. We say wherever we have been is our favorite spot, yes we would go back to every place we have been and yes we want to go to very place we haven’t been. Do you have a favorite place to walk and/or GPS that you would recommend to a couple in their sixties that are able to walk pretty well? Not rock or mountain climbers! We always manage, at times, to get ourselves lost or mixed up, but the nice thing about that is that we have found some neat stuff we knew nothing about and have met some friendly people that helped us out.

    Road Angel Adventure 7000

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by geosmitti

    I Have a Road angel Navigator/Adventurer 7000 and use it all the time for walking/driving/biking/geocaching.

    The Navigator/Adventurer 7000 are identical units both car Sat nav's with the potential to show Ordnance survey mapping, the Adventurer comes with SD card already loaded with MM mobile software whereas the Navigator does not but you can load MM yourself if you already have the PC version ( i.e. if you already have MM on your PC save yourself £100 and get the Navigator the difference IS the MM) I have 4 x 2GB SD cards and have RA sat nav and MM operating system on all 3, then on 1 I have northern England on 1 Middle England and the 3rd Southern. The last has the area Cumbria in greater detail with aerial mapping

    If you don't know where you are going then use the sat nav, if your familiar with the area use it in the car with a live OS map that always pinpoints your position. Park up and go walking - you carnt get lost you always have your position, download geocaches and you have all the details (hint etc if you use GSAK) to use in a foreign country I would say it is a very useful "all in one"

    Any questions about it feel free to ask I've been using 2 years and are quite happy with it

    What has size got to do with it?

     

    Thanks for the answer. Size has nothing to do with it. I am a novice user of forums( an old guy who is kind of clueless) and I am not sure what I did to get that word size there. Also I may not be getting this reply correct. But the important thing is - thanks for the info and I may ask you some more questions soon.

    Road Angel Adventure 7000

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Yes, England is a beautiful piece of the planet – lots of neat things to see and do – fabulous place to walk. This will be our fifth trip!

     

    On my laptop I have 3 memory-map products – Greater London – Norfolk Broads (1:25,000) and the Cotswolds (1:25,000). I have a Colorado 300 GPS. My original plan was to purchase Garmin’s Topo for England; however, I bought Garmin’s Topo for Canada – very disappointing. Compared to a regular paper Topo or other Topo software it comes in a distant last. From the Garmin web site looking at the Topo for England (doesn’t work very well at all) it looks like it is not even close to the excellent Ordnance Survey software. I don’t believe it is possible to download maps from OS software to the 300.

     

    So I though I would be able to use the Road Angel as a GPS and be able to download memory-map OS maps and AZ Greater London maps to the Road Angel.

     

    Would be interested in why you removed the Road Angel from your short list. Do you think it would be a mistake on my part to buy the RA?

    Road Angel Adventure 7000

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by geosmitti

    I am wondering if anyone has experience with Road Angel Adventurer 7000? It is advertised on the Memory-Map UK website. I am contemplating a trip to England and would do a lot of walking. It has the ability to use Ordnance Survey maps. Any info would be appreciated. :)

    Colorado Compass Re-calibration

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    After changing the batteries, is it necessary to re-calibrate the compass as stated in the owner’s manual? Didn’t have to do that with previous models. :)

     

    Yes. I'm not sure what previous model you have but the recommendation on the 60csx/HCx series manuals look exactly the same as from the Colorado manual. Recalibration required after battery change, moving more than 100 miles or temperature change of more than 20C.

     

    GO$Rs

    Colorado Track Transfer

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    When I transfer tracks from the Colorado 300 to MapSource on the PC, the archived tracks do not transfer, only the current track. I upgraded from a GPSmap76s and when transferring tracks from it, all the saved tracks as well as the current track were transferred. Am I doing something wrong? What do folks think of the Garmin Support website when trying to get help? :laughing:

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