apersson850

But this has nothing to do with the problem you initially asked for help with. The profiles will store the selection of routing methods.That they omitted the map selection is either due to oversight, or there's some technical problem involved in doing it.

The failure to find the location after turning on is addressed in the 2.40 firmware, so it's a valid question from the Norwegian jury.

Those who have units, where the clock comes back up with the same time as was current when you turned the unit off, have you set logging of air pressure to be maintained with the unit off? If not, do that, and check if it makes any difference at all, to the alarm clock and what time it displays when you turn it back on again. You can also check if it actually does record any air pressure samples.

Which bars are you referring to? The five in a slanted configuration on the main status page, or the signal strength bars on the satellite page?

Use an automotive and a geocache profile. Have autorouting setting in one, off-road in the other. Switch profile and recalculate.

Well, I can live with the panning being turned around in all directions. You can do as I do with the 60 CSx: Just zoom out far enough, then in again, and it reverts to north up. Geocaches unfortunately share the same zoom scale setting as your own waypoints. As others have found here, if you load many geocaches, you can't see neither your waypoints nor anything else. You now have to turn off the basemap, if you want to see the roads from City Navigator at zoom scales 500, 800 and 1200 meters, with level of detail set to highest. Otherwise, the thin grey roads just disappear in the green. You loose the basemap view when you zoom out, unfortunately. When in automotive display (perspective view), there's no green salad background, fortunately. Startup is much faster, as is geocache handling. Perhaps you've also found that now you can set if you want the backlight to dim or not when the batteries are low. Oh yes, now I see a post about that too. As perhaps is obvious, I've had this for a few days, but I've not been out caching with it yet.

Which you find where?

Regarding the manual: I don't know, but it could be that as it seems that Garmin US have taken over making the manual translations themselves, that they have opted for a short-form manual. At least to begin with, but I don't have any high hope that they'll issue a more comprehensive one later. Maybe if many firmware upgrades will make the current one obsolete. But as little information there is, it's not that easy to make it obsolete...

I think we already had a thread about this, but maybe I'm mistaken, since I can't find it. Anyway, here's another review of the Colorado.

You can't check the general accuracy for a GPS like these. You can only check how well it performs right now, under whatever circumstances you have at the moment. The next time you try it's something else.

Shuffling any files wouldn't be necessary, as long as you can simply select which one to use for the moment.

I agree. They don't need a full-fledged file manager, but if you can select which geocaching file(s) to use, like you select which maps to use, then that would be sufficient. Has to be able to handle that you can have a number of small files as well...

In some other thread, someone determined that the Colorado can read a geocache file from a card, so at least in theory, you can have more than one SD-card, with caches on them, for different areas. When the next firmware is available to you, you'll have the geocaches displayed on the map (says those who have spoken to Garmin's representatives at the meets - and it seems likely), so the waypoint file limit is then no longer any issue. Only the max number of allowed caches will be.

Áll right, let's first re-establish the terminology here, so we know what we are talking about. Otherwise, it will be difficult to help you. A bearing is the direction from where you are to your destination. Hence, a bearing line is a straight line from where you are to your destination. If you follow the bearing line, you'll go the shortest way to your destination, from your current position. When you move, the bearing line will move with you. A course line is a line from your original position to the destination. It remains static, no matter where you go. By comparing your position to the course line, you can see how far off track you are. A route consists of two or more waypoints. These points are connected by course lines. If you follow the lines, you'll traverse the shortest path between your points. All the time, you can see how far from the shortest path you are, by comparing your position to the route. When travelling in a vehicle, following roads is usually the better choice. An autoroute does that. It's computed to follow the roads, according to some preferences and algorithm, in the way you desire (more or less). Now, when we've defined this (it's nothing new, it's the normal convention), could you say that you are looking for a method to go from an autoroute to a bearing line? Or is it something else?

As I've written somewhere here before, when I tried the 60 CSx and the Colorado in the typical northern lighting conditions we have at this time of the year (sun pretty low over the horizon), the Colorado screen was at best equivalent to the 60 CSx. If there was any difference, the Colorado was inferior. But the better choice of colors on the Colorado map display made it more readable almost all the time anyway. Data fields were worse, mainly due to the bad choice of colors and font (7-segment went out of fashion in the eighties). This was all with no backlight. On the whole, I can summarize that my experience was the same as yours. Nothing could beat the readability of the monochrome display on the Forerunner 301, but it doesn't show that much data, of course.

Has spring come to Indiana yet?You see street names when following a route. Is that the message? Do you see them when not following a route as well? At the same map scale, then?

Aha, the perspective view being the line of sight view?

The Colorado already creates such a log, it's just not based on a file every day.

Hmm, it's perhaps because of my limited English, but I think I don't understand properly what you mean by "line of sight view". I thought you meant a bearing line on the map (a line from where you are to where you want to go), but you are probably looking for something different. I understand the difference between a course line (from original starting point to destination) and a bearing line (from current position to destination), but what is it you want here? Or do you refer to the difference between the bearing line and an auto-route, along the roads?

Are you describing the effects of autozoom here?

There are settings for bearing vs. course lines on the map, and bearing vs. course arrow on the compass page, if that's what you are looking for? Have you not found these settings, or do they not work as expected?

The manual is a short-form one, indeed. Maybe the people at Garmin thought that there were many things wished for in the next update, so they are now trying to get as much as possible as correct as possible? Which takes some time, of course. The engineers at Garmin are well aware of this site. As always, it's one thing what they want to do, another what resources allow in a finite amount of time.

Make sure you have the correct format. There are three different for lat/long.

Having to switch the cards is a pain somewhere. Just install both maps on the same card at the same time. Switching between them is done in a few seconds.

That's exactly the same procedure I use. Works very well if you have a unit with a magnetic compass.