TheHornerFamily

Others have also reported issue (1) with Garmins that use the Cartesio chipset (such as the GPSMAP 62 series). With the Oregon x50 series, this was apparently broken around firmware 3.74. Check out: http://garmingpsmap.wikispaces.com/message...e/27467509?o=20

If you are looking at purchasing an Oregon, you should be aware that the Oregon x00 series and GPSMAP 76 series have been discontinued: http://gpstracklog.com/2010/10/garmin-disc...smap-76csx.html

Hello all, I've recently found some high-res color satellite imagery available for download on my county's GIS website. It consists of tiles in MrSID format (with a .sdw file for geolocation), of ~ 3 MB each. I'm wanting to use this imagery as a more detailed replacement for some of the BirdsEye imagery I downloaded through Garmin for my Oregon 450. The imagery for the whole county is about 15 GB of MrSID files. What I'd like to do is to take the tiles, combine them into large raster maps like I have with the BirdsEye stuff and get as good of coverage of my home county as I can (downsampling where appropriate), given the limits of the Oregon and my memory card (I have a 16 GB MicroSD card in it). I know there's a 4 GB file size limit due to the FAT filesystem, and also limits on the size and number of map tiles available on the Oregon. I've tried using G-Raster, but it can't geolocate the MrSID files, even with the .sdw information. Has anyone done anything like this and could tell me what tools I could use to create the raster maps for my Oregon? I've tried using a number of tools to create a small map to test the quality and file size, but I can't even manage to do that. Is this possible, or am I totally crazy? Can anyone help point me in the right direction for making large raster maps for the Oregon from MrSID data? Thanks, Jason

Hey fellow geocachers, Wanted to relate my experience to you guys and gals. I got the Explorist GC a week ago for my birthday. Was fairly happy with it, but I experienced the issue described here where the coordinates stop updating when walking slowly and approaching a cache (especially when under cover). I have the latest (1.4) firmware on my explorist GC. I called Magellan tech support and explained the problem to them and pointed the tech support rep (his name was Jules, a pretty nice guy, by the way) to this thread. After being on hold a couple of times, where Jules presumably was talking about the issue with colleagues/superiors, he got back on and told me that they believed that the unit shouldn't be doing that and told me they would replace it with a new unit. This was a surprise to me, given that other reports in this thread stated that Magellan was aware of the issue (and were presumably working on a firmware fix). Based on the fact that they are replacing mine, I'm drawing the conclusion that they are thinking it's a hardware issue instead. Thought people might like to know about this. -- Jason