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Any maps you have you might be able to load onto any Magellan or Garmin or Lowrance. There are usergroups dedicated to hacking/decoding the map formats of those brands. As long as you have electronic maps, or paper maps that you can scan, and can geo-reference multiple points you can put anything on your GPS. Even satellite photos I've heard can be put on GPS's, and not necessarily the Delorme PN-20.
Whether or not you get anything that looks good depends on how much time you spend to do all the hard work to make the maps useable by your GPSr.
I was talking to a salesman in a outdoor shop in Keswick at the weekend about buying an Oregon. He suggested I wait a few days because a series of OS maps (couldn't give specific details of scale, area etc) compatable with the Oregon and possibly other Garmin gps systems was about to be released.
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It sometimes takes a little while for the stat bar to update. Check it again in a day.
Just had another look and it has updated. thanks for your response
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When I log on to my account it tells me that I have found 21 caches which is correct. The 'stat bar' tells me I have found 20. Is there a known reason for this difference? Thanks for any info.
Canonuser
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When I log on to my account it tells me that I have found 21 caches which is correct. The 'stat bar' tells me I have found 20. Is there a known reason for this difference? Thanks for any info.
Canonuser
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Probably the easiest way to tell is that you will have lost all of your user entered data except the data on the welcome page and the maps and other data that are stored on the card. If you made any changes in page sequences, page setups, etc., you will have to do all of those again. You also will have to re-enter stored waypoints.
Thanks for your quick reply. My data, waypoints etc is still there, so will have to try again.
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I performed the update to 2.70 / 2.60 last week. On Saturday I went geocaching and the performance was terrible. Accuracy varied from 25 to 50 feet (or more) all afternoon on a perfectly clear day. I was not a happy camper as it was the worst performance since buying it last January.
Yesterday I did a hard reset (hold page button & joystick in while pressing the on button - pretty hard to successfuly accomplish while keeping the joystick centered). Went into the yard to let it download the satellite info and it was locked on in about two seconds (on a cold start)! On Saturday it had taken about a minute to lock on.
Today we went out caching w/ the grandkids. The performance was unbelieveable. The first cache was found while the Vista HCx said we were 5' away --- and the compass arrow was pointing right at it 5' away! OK, so I figured it was coincidence (accuracy was +- 12' at the time). Next find: It said we were 2' feet from the cache and again, it was pointing at a hidden cache that was exactly 2' in front of us.
Could be that this update really works after doing a hard reset. Time will tell. By the way, don't forget to reload your caches after doing the hard reset. I was minutes from leaving today when I discovered that they were gone.
Found this in another thread. Only a sample of one, but maybe he is onto something.
I have just upgraded to 2.70/2.60, how can I tell if I have managed to do a hard reset successfully?
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Hello and welcome.