fratermus
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I don't have a nuvi, but on most garmins you press-and-hold some button. Like the enter key or whatever.
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Many people report that the cheap ones work.
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Keep up the good work, gentlemen. I'm nowhere near Colorado, but this kind of effort is important and valuable.
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I don't have my old 60cx in front of me, but I set mine to be "always ask" on the off/onroad question.
Then induce a recalculation (however that is done on an HCX) and select off-road when you want to change.
Takes a couple of seconds.
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well, but can't find a way to have them both on this card. Map Source software allows me to build the map sets with both products, but alas, only one product will appear on the Legend after I've spent many hours waiting for the transfer to complete.
You do have to load both at once, but only one mapset will show at a time in normal circumstances due to the map hierarchy.
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The unit seams to have a lot of accuracy problems when you get close to a cach. The compass jumps in many directions.
Common misconception: stop looking at the GPS when you near the cache.
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Obviously, expertGPS is cheaper than Mapsource.
Not obviously.
MapSource by itself (no maps) can be downloaded for free off Garmin.com if you know where to find it.
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I think you can run it through GPSbabel, which will strip out the non-significant datapoints and get it under the allowed max.
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The short answer is: use the POI Loader free tool from Garmin.
The longer answer is: using a search phrase like garmin convert waypoints to poi is a quick way to find out about any new topic you want to know more about.
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Waypoints are stored in the GPSr itself and not on the card (in normal usage).
Most units have a 500 or 1000 waypoint max. You can convert your waypoints to POI and stuff tons of them on your card if 500 is not sufficient for your purposes.
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I use gpx2html and just dump the .html files to the PocketPC and read them with InternetExplorer.
Easy peasey.
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In the off chance that you are not a troll (and that this is some kind of Perfect Storm Bad First Post) , if you are within 50' of the cache stop watching the GPS.
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What happens if you just let it sit for a few mins? I've seen newly loaded large/multiple mapsets take over a minute of "hang" the first time the unit boots after upload.
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Truly, this needs to be a sticky if it isn't already.
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If you want the GPSr to autoroute (ie, tell you where to go on-the-fly) then the default answer is going to be City Navigator.
I will let others fill in the details on CN versions, formats, upgrades, locks, etc. as I do not use that mapset. I own a copy of CN7 from when I bought an i3 but don't have it loaded on anything.
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Showing city streets is a pretty low hurdle, met by most of the map products that Garmin sells.
Can you please talk more about your intended usages for this unit?
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All new downloads, opened files, etc, get their own window. that's the way it works, unless I am missing something obvious.
Assuming the waypoint names do not overlap, I'd either send to the GPS from each window one after another, cut/paste them altogether, or save to disk and do a little trivial gpsbabel hacking to combine into one file and open the resulting dataset in easygps.
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$75 (especially if shipped or if it comes with the cable) is a decent price for a used blue legend.
I think it will serve you well. If you eventually upgrade for more bling/features you can use it as a backup/loaner/whatever.
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Metroguide can also be bought used as it is unlocked. V7 should be a steal since v8 is the current one.
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If its the standard Legend, there is no way to add maps.
This is incorrect.
The blue legend has 8MB of internal map memory and will accept maptiles from topo, MG, CN, third party maps, etc. It is less efficient to use CN on non-autorouting units.
I fit all of Dallas and part of the mid-cities area into a blue legend with MGNAv7.
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CN is ill-suited for mapping, non-autorouting GPSr. MetroGuide is the PC-routing mapset for this type of units.
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The legend is not bad for geoCACHing.
It will give you turn by turn if you buy MetroGuide and pre-plot the course on the PC. CN will not provide turn by turn on non-routing GPSr, if I remember correctly, and will want to send the routing info to the GPSr, reducing the 8mb map capacity by half.
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This query on Garmin Custom POI will point you at the garmin poi loader. This page will flesh out the idea a bit.
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Convert them to Custom POI and carry as many as you want (practically speaking).
60CSx Autorouting is very flaky with City Nav 2008
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It does not work because CN+autorouting unit = only the start and end points of the route are xferred, IIRC>
I have done this with MG, by the way. Sent the exact same route to a routing and nonrouting GPSr. The routing GPSr only got the start and end. The foretrex got the start, all the via points, and the end.
I don't know if MapSource doesn't send the viapoints or if the GPSr drops them. If the former, perhaps you could upload with easygps or something.