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The Marine POI database is treated as an entire mapset upload. You can either have your City Select mapset or the Marine POI mapset loaded into your GPS unit at any one time. You cannot combine them...it's up to Garmin to distribute the Marine POI database as an individual mapset that you can use in MapSource along with other MapSource products. After years already, I doubt that they'd do this anytime soon.

Have you checked the West Marine website here? There doesn't seem to be any spec mentioned of the amount of memory but I'd imagine it would have the same amount as the 76CS.

First thing's first, update the firmware (the current version is 3.50). Find your current version by selecting "About Quest" in the settings menu To toggle between searching by name or distance, do the following: Press FIND Select "My Locations" Press MENU From there you can select "find by name" or "find nearest"

Since there's some risk involved (as others have pointed out) with trying to polish out scratches, you could try installing a screen protector before trying the "polish out" method. The adhesive on the back of the screen protector will tend to fill in the scratch and make it much less noticable (it may even disappear completely). On top of that, your screen will now be protected from future scratches. The trick to getting a good appearance with a screen protector is to eliminate any air bubbles by working slowly from one side to the other, keeping one side lifted off the screen while slowly pressing down the side you are working from. Don't plunk it down all at once on the screen and expect the bubbles to squeeze out later...they won't, especially the ones in the middle.

It looks as if the GPS is now more intelligent when it comes to WAAS. If it can see 35, it uses it. If it can see 47, it uses it. If it can see both 35 and 47, it uses them both. If it can only see one WAAS bird (either 35 or 47), it then fills the empty WAAS slot with a non-WAAS bird but continues to periodically search for WAAS birds until it can see one, then it uses it again and dumps the non-WAAS bird. I haven't really studied this very extensively, but in my short observation after the firmware update, that's what it looks like it's doing. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Just in case you didn't know, Garmin has a MapSource map viewer here. Using this, you can see the detail for yourself before actually spending the money on the product

US Topo 24K has limited areas...be sure to check out Garmin's MapSource Mapviewer here before your purchase to view the included areas.

Nice hat-trick!

My Quest has an anti-glare coating on the screen and it does help a bit, but if the unit is angled wrong where it pickes up reflections off of the rear window or elsewhere, no amount of anti-glare coating will help much. The key is to aim the unit to pick up the least amount of reflection and use the backlight. I've always used the backlight on my Garmin color units (Quest, 60C, 60CS and Vista C) in the daytime. Without it, the screen is too dim unless the sun is shining directly on it, which does not happen very often in a car.

I've owned many GPS units & found that as long as the mounting/viewing angle is set correctly, you can pretty much eliminate screen glare. The exception to this was the 76C...for some reason, I just could not get it right with the Garmin mounting bracket. But then again, I didn't try very hard since I returned the unit the same day I purchased it. It just didn't feel right to me for some reason (I got a Quest instead). I'd still say to fiddle with the forward/backward tilt to see if you can find a happy medium. My car is well suited to GPS mounting since it has a black interior. I could forward tilt it to reflect off of the rear of the black headliner, eliminating all visible reflections. Light-colored interiors would be a challenge though...you also don't want to reflect off the rear window.

Try downloading the update again from scratch...delete the first update and also the folder/files where the update is extracted to when you run the downloaded file (the default extraction folder is C:\Garmin...take care not to delete your MapSource installation just in case you happened to install it in C:\Garmin) and try to re-do the update. Sometimes a download will say it's successful but in reality, some bits have been dropped or lost in cyberspace...

Hmmm...just a thought but a very safe way to -try- to remedy this would be to get a few silica gel dessicant packets (those little packets shipped with electronics that look sorta like sugar packets) and put the eMap along with the packets in a small ziplock bag for a few days. These packets absorb moisture...the trouble is trying to find them since they get tossed into the garbage along with any packing materials. Aside from this idea (which I'll admit is not a very good one ) the food dehydrator sounds good if performed with care...

dmoyers, If you're referring to MapSource US Topo 24k, there are no unlock codes required for this product so you can upload the maps to any Garmin GPS you may have. You can install MapSource on any number of PCs you may have. The only MapSource products I know of (here in the USA) that require an unlock code (which is tied to the serial number of your GPS) are Blue Charts, City Select and City Navigator.

Quoting Neo_Geo's first line in his original post: So no, the GPS V is not supported.

I have both a 60C and a 60CS (both early models) and neither of them came with the belt clip plug that is pictured in the manual. I've always wondered if this plug even exists since this topic was brought up when the units were first released with people wondering if they got short-changed...

Sounds like a CD-R copy to me. All Garmin CDs are pressed and have all the characteristics of a pressed CD. The data surface should be silver with no type of color tint, the label side should be purple and silk-screened (not printed on any type of stick-on label). On my v5 CDs, there is is text on the data side near on the center hub (not printed in ink but laser inscribed) that reads "CD Ver. 5.00 Disk 1/2" for CD 1 and "CD Ver. 5.00 Disk 1/2" for CD 2.

No it won't work with the standard Vista (I have tried it), but it does work with the Vista C. It will basically work with any Garmin unit that supports plotting (I'm out of luck on this with my Quest...even with it being a newer Garmin unit, it doesn't work). AFAIK, Garmin's spec sheets do not state if the unit in question is capable of plotting. About the only way you can tell if it will work with your unit is to actually try it. It won't hurt your unit to try it since the tide data is pretty much just a blank map with the tide stations on it.

Cool that they sent you the part to replace yourself. I think they can tell that you can turn a screwdriver just as well as a Garmin tech. Glad things worked out for you.

1 This was a documented change in the firmware...I 'm not sure what version it was changed. 2 The Marine Point basemap is simply a marine point map and not really the unit's TRUE basemap. The basemap (Recreational Routable Highway Basemap v2 2.00) has the highways and exit info...the basemap details are viewable on power-up of the unit on the second screen. The basemap is in fixed (non re-writable) memory. The Marine Point basemap uses the same memory area that user uploaded maps reside in. When you upload a mapset to the 60C using MapSource, the Marine point basemap gets overwritten with the uploaded mapset. If you need to re-install the Marine map, you can download it from the Garmin site. You cannot however combine the Marine map with uploaded maps...Garmin doesn't want users to be able to do this for some odd reason.

Don't know if the beta is actually different than the release version but be warned that your beta version will expire soon so you will need to download & update to the release version...like it or not.

You may want to check out this link. It has a wealth of info for all users and is a daily stop for myself and many others here. In particular, this article was posted a few days ago regarding Garmin GPS and the Mac. It may help you out.

You say you have the box...the serial number is also located on the original product box on a similar (if not exactly the same) looking sticker. In my experience, the stickers are almost always located on the top black section of the box. The sticker will be white with a black bar code and the serial printed just below the bar code.

The beta version is only in English while the release version is multi-language, hence the different file sizes.

MetroGuide USA v5 does NOT support autorouting on the GPS (but it does on the PC)...the maps do not contain autorouting data in them so what you are seeing is the unit autorouting using the basemap. You need CitySelect maps loaded to the GPSr for autorouting on the user-loaded maps. *Edit* OK Olar...you beat me to a reply by a few seconds...

MapSource doesn't support this feature that the Quest does so well...odd, huh? I have a Quest and use the road/area avoidance feature alot here in SoCal. It would be nice to be able to set these avoidances from within MapSource and transfer them to the Quest in one shot but I don't know if this would be possible...