palmdale

How did you upload the POI database to your 60C? I looked into it but it only gave me an option of using a serial port- which I do not have- only have USB. So I did not download the POI software but did xfer the new 3.0 firmware. Nothing was wiped out in my POI menu. Prior to loading the POI database, did you already have the tide tool feature on your 60c? If I only had the same amount of memory that my GPS does, then I would be able to remember the answers to these questions... 1. I don't know if Marine POI was on the unit before the firmware upgrade. 2. It looked like I still had everything on my unit after the firmware upgrade, but like a dope, I obeyed the website that instructed me to run the "file" and when I did, it erased all the Mapsource Data and all POIs. bummer. 3. So I reinstalled Mapsource and it put everything back to normal. 4. Next I ran the 5 MB US Tides software which added another data source in MapSource and now I have tide info for the whole US. 5. I used the USB connection-don't remember any option to select that... Sorry, not much help, I guess.

never mind--I found that this was already discussed elsewhere!

On the firmware update website there is another download that instructs: "If MapSource data is loaded to this unit, this unit's preloaded POI database will be erased. Please download the file below to recover this POI database." I did that, and it removed all but six of the icons in the Find menu, but it added the tide tool for US. So then I re-installed my mapsource maps, and now the tide info (Marine POIs) is gone. Does anyone know whether I needed to install this update, or if we can get the tide info onthe GPS WITH the Mapsource info?