BlackBeard Pirate

Yeah... and both my etrexes are black n white.... still, I thought i saw someone out there making them.... or maybe i should make my own..... i guess i would need to step 5v to 3v and a current limiter. anybody tried this?

Seems that I've seen these for sale somewhere but i can't remember where. Its certainly not on Garmin's website. Where can I get one for a good price?

Regarding GeoCalc.exe.... what is the format for entering coordinate string/point, distance, and bearing? GeoCalc's homepage offers no help. thx

Scott... to delete all maps in my unit, would I use Mapsource and transfer an "empty" map list?

Thank you for your help Neo, Rusty, & Alan... ...at first i had not noticed the total map filesize in mapsourse.... i did by the second and third attempts but had crashes anyway. I just loaded 20 Mb of maps, and it worked, so the crashes must have been flukes, or maybe bad data on one of the maps -- I dunno, but for a while there i thought maybe i had some bad memory in my unit. With the 20 Mb of maps in memory, my GPSr reports 13% memory used.... so I dont think that report includes the 24Mb of map memory, i think that bit of memory used must be what references the coordinates of the downloaded maps to the basemaps. I'm begining to understand! it helps to know what I am doing with MapSource also..... thanks again for your time and help fellas!

Well, I've had a plain Etrex for a few years, and I got myself a Vista for Christmas. It has 24 Mb of storage. I checked the Vista's memory in its setup and it reported 2%. I have an old Mapquest cd (US roads & recreation) I got from a friend a few years back and I've been trying to fill up my new Vista with maps. I read that the Vista can hold about 20 maps (counties) on average, so I loaded my county and then a few surrounding counties.... I checked the memory on the vista and it was only 4% full (strange). So, I started loading more maps..... maybe 15 more and then memory in the Vista said 6%, hmmmm? I set it to load maybe 40 or 50 counties (Florida and Georgia areas) and it finally stopped in the middle of the transfer saying that there was an error with the connection. I turned off the gps and back on and my maps are gone but memory still reports 9% full! huh? i had to reboot the pc to get it to transfer maps again. I have been through this scenario 3 times now.. loading fewer and fewer maps at a time.... (now paying attention to the total filesize of the maps reported by mapquest -- only 10-12 Mb at most). It eventually seems to have an error where it loses connection and i lose all map datum in the gps as well. I checked the gps memory status and it does not return to its original 3% but stays at 9% even though all map data is lost. I reset all logs, routes, waypoints, tracks, etc. but it still reports a growing memory. I guess my questions really are... whats going on? how many Mb of maps can I load? how can I reset my gps to original configuration? How can I get my gps to report its original 2% memory usage? If i were to load lets say 10Mb of maps, why doesn't the gps report its 24 Mb of memory to be half full? I know it's a lot of questions... but I am guessing that some others here with the Vista, and maybe those with the Legend, have had similar problems and figured out what is going on. Thanks in advance for any help or advice you all can supply!! Rob, Florida