Chris CA

If the user wants both a topo map and also a routable road map, the yes, the user needs to. ??? I don't understand. If City Navigator takes you to the cache via the "dirt road"/"flat forest road ", why are you hiking up a steep road? Routing is via one map only, not both (at the same time). Route to the general area with City Navigator, then change to the Topo map and route to the cache to see if the road is steep.

If you were responding to me, what's your point? If the post (or the title of the post ) was edited by someone other than the original poster, it should state that.

If so, then the "helpful" moderator should have also added "post edited by moderator" or something similar, regardles of what was edited. If the post is not what the original poster wrote, then it should state something to that effect..

So it's normal for a working gmapsupp.img file to not work on an SD card? 2.9. I don't understand. MapManager only installs the maps into RoadTrip. MapInstall only takes the RoadTrip maps and install them onto the GPS. Am I missing something? So there is nothing I can do to get any .img file working on my Colorado/Mac unless the .img file is created and installed with MapInstall?

So it's normal for a working gmapsupp.img file to not work on an SD card? 2.9. So there is nothing I can do to get any .img file working on my Colorado/Mac unless the .img file is created and installed with MapInstall?

Neither. I downloaded the Garmin version gmapsupp.img. I have created gmapsupp.img files with mkgmap. Those don't work. Can't. It's a gmapsupp.img file. It is not a .gmapi file which is loaded into Roadtrip. Yes. It extracts as a gmapsupp.img file If I create a gmapsupp.img file from osm data using the --gmapsupp option, it creates the file fine but will not do anything on the GPS. If I use the --tdb option then use Gmapibuilder to create a Macintosh .gmapi installer file, it installs with RoadTrip fine using MapManager. MapInstall works to get it onto the GPS. If I use java -jar mkgmap.jar --gmapsupp 1.img 2.img, with 1.img being the original gmapsuipp.img rename to 1.img, the resulting gmapsupp.img does not work on the GPS. Yes, I have tried renaming a numbered file as well as using a regular gmapsupp.img. If I copy the original gmapsupp.img file from the GPS to the SD card (into the Garmin\ folder), then rename the original gmapsupp.img file to something else, the only map that shows and is slectable is the basemap. Yes.

That's the problem. They do not show up there at all. The only ones that do show up are the maps (which are .gmapi files) I installed using MapInstall. If I replace the gmapsupp.img on the GPS with another gmapsupp.img, the only map choice is the basemap. If I replace the gmapbmap.img (basemap) or add a gmapprom.img on the GPS with one of these downloaded maps, it does not show up on the GPS to select.

Firmware beta 2.94 adds this as well as waypoint averaging. See this -> http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=225411

http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-...n-gps-unit/#mac Yes, I use that but it doesn not help if I only have a .img file. It adds maps already installed into Roadtrip.

See this page -> http://www8.garmin.com/macosx/

I have a Mac so no Mapsource. That was my thought but I can copy the gmapsupp.img file from the GPS to the card, rename the gmapsupp.img on the GPS and it will not work. It's not one file in particular. It is any gmapspp.img file at all.

I have a Colorado 300. I have tried to get various maps (.img files) on to the unit. I have put them onto an SD card and also onto the unit directly but I cannt get them to show up to turn them on/off on the GPS. Yes, I am putting the gmapsupp.img into the \Garmin\ folder on the card and also on the unit directly. I have also tried them with gmapbmap.img and gmapprom.img. I have created gmapsupp.img files with mkgmap and also downloaded maps from different places (Cloudmade & gpsfiledepot.com, and others). Nothing seems to happen. Any ideas? Thanks! -- Chris

Before you reinstall the firmware, initialize it. Make sure it is set to your location. If your position is more than 500 miles off (you are in California but tell it you are in Florida?!?), it will take forever to find your current location (if ever).

You should place the cache right at the edge of the shore with instructions that the Geocacher should cover his/her hand with bacon grease and briskly move it through the water to locate the cache.

Do NOT put underarm deodorant in it...

I had logged a couple of DNFs after looking two or three times. Come to find out they were muggled so I went back & changed my DNF to a note (and explained it). I'll go back sometime to try again and enter a find it I actually do.

You can get it for ~$70 (just look at Froogle.com) as opposed to an upgrade from Magellan for $99...