dhbaird

dh, Are you talking about 'hiding' the coordinates in the code that makes up the picture, or 'printing' it on the picture? If it's the latter, and you are using any M$ (MicroSoft) Operating System, open the image in 'Paint' (WinXP - Start, All Programs, Accessories, Paint). Click on the 'A' symbol on the left side of the screen. 'Create' a box (Left click where you want the upper left area of text to start, hold and drag down to the lower right of where you want the text, let go) on your picture where you want to put the text/coord's and start typing. Save and you're done! Let me know if that helps, or if you need more detailed help. JohnTee I just noticed that when I upload my images to the Cache log on Geocaching.com it asks if the image contains a waypoint. Since I have a digital camera, and lots of digital programs for manipulating digital images, I was wondering if that was how an image got a waypoint in it or if it was a feature of a special gps equiped camera.

Use mapsource and transfer directly to the card in the reader instead of the GPSr. It shows up as a device. That's how I put the City Select maps onto my 256MB card. -bob Yup that works on my card reader here too. I assume that after you have copied the image files to the SD that the 60CSX has no trouble finding them? The next question is, if a 512 meg works, how about the 1Gig? That I think would give me complete coverage of all the places I go in the US, Canada and Caribbean.

Is there a way to imbed a waypoint into an image file if you do not have a GPS digital camera? If so can somebody point me to a FAQ or tutorial for doing that? That brings up another question. I notice that various folks have compiled some very helpful FAQ's or web sites with information like this, but I don't see a listing of them here. Is there one?

Has anybody gotten their 60 or 76 CSX to take more than 256Meg of maps on their unit? One of the only reasons I would want to upgrade is so I can load more Topo's and City Select segments to cover the places I travel. I suppose I could have 2 256 SD's with different parts of the country, but it would be nice if they could all fit on 1.

Are you located somewhere outside the normal region covered by your basemap? I have a unit with an Americas basemap and my accuracy circle only gets that large if I'm located somewhere else, such as in Europe or Africa. If I'm somewhere in the US then the circle only has a radius of about 0.3 km (reflecting the greater accuracy of the basemap in its normal region). Thanks for this comment. It just solved a mystery for me. I did not used to have the circle, then I did. I had inadvertantly uploaded a new map segment one time with wome new routes. Did not realize that in so doing I erased all of the other map segments by only uploading the one. My accuracy went down and I could not figure it out till this discussion. So I went back to my gpsr and low and behold, I was operating off the base maps. No wonder I was disappointed with the accuracy lately! Anyway... now I have created a new map group in mapsource and saved it so I can upload the same group of maps quickly if I somehow goof like that again.

I'm little more than a newbie myself with my 76cs but I think that circle tells you just how accurate your GPS has a fix at that moment. The larger the circle the more error in obtaining a fix. When you have a fix that is right I think that the circle gets smaller or disappears.

A stupid question maybe... The 76cs has 115 mb available built in ram memory. Does the 128 mb SD card bosst that up to 243 mb or is the 128 sd card a replacement for the ram? Got all the boxes, docs and orignal packing. See a lot of buy it now prices that are between $350 and $409. Those are for new units. Haven't seen many used units for sale. Think I could get $350 for it only used for 4 months?

With my 76cs Find Find brings up a screen with all my recent finds. then you scroll down to the one you want to go to. Since going home is always something I have done in the last 20 or so finds, I just pick it up from the list.

Can't talk about price range, but the waterproof part speaks to my needs and when I did my search for floating, waterproof units with connectivity so I could upload charts I quickly got out of the price range you are saying is your maximum. I ended up spending somewhat more to get a unit that would give me enough storage for the boating/cruising I do and still be able to float and survive. I hesitate to say it this way, but it sounds like you might be setting yourself up to be disappointed. Buying too low end to save the money while wanting your unit to do and perform higher end tasks. My wife and I have a rule of thumb about equipment purchases. Get the unit that meets the specs of your actual use. You may pay a bit more up front, but the aggrivation you save and the time you use your piece of equipment will save you in the long run. This rule of thumb has saved us a lot of grief over the years. The only time I was ever disappointed is when the unit I purchased ends up being replaced by a new release within days or weeks of my purchase. I am facing that issue right now with the Garmin release of the X models.

If I were to trade up, are the various cables like the car power cable, beanbag dash mount, deluxe case all going to work with the 76csx? I got to thinking that the power cable might be different since the new unit can take power from the USB cable, something the 76Cs can not do. How do they keep the SD slot waterproof? I will be using my unit in wet conditions all the time and being waterproof is of very high priority. (I do canyon treks and open ocean boating as well as geocaching) If a person sells a unit and buys another how does Garmin deal with the unlock code issue? I have Topo and City Select7 (all purchased in Dec 2005). I am assuming that they will both work with the 76CSX? If you were selling a 76CS that was only 4 months old, how much would you hope to get? Any other differences or concerns I should think through before jumping?

So Jb, How much did you get for the 60CS towards your CSX? I am in the same situation, looking to upgrade from a 76CS to a 76CSX. My 76 is only 4 months old.

The effect of movement by itself seems to be very small since in airplanes I get reception about as fast when moving at hundreds of miles per hour as I do when standing still. When the receiver is getting the ephemeris data even the momentary obstruction by a utility pole can be sufficient to disrupt a bit of the data stream and make it wait for the message to repeat. Do you start the reception while already moving or have you acquired signal before the plane gets going?

I had thought that might be the case and ordered a Gilsson the day I returned from that trip. It hasn't arrive yet. I know that people say that cloud cover should not matter, but I did not lose the signal until I got under a very thick cloud cover. I did not get it back reliably until I drove out of that area and the cloud was no longer there.

This is in regards to a Garmin 76cs I was on a route the other day and due to some telemetry problem, cloud cover or what ever I lost my satellites. I was in a heavy flow of traffic and could not stop. The unit never was able to re-connect while I was moving, even after I pressed that silly prompt (press the enter button). By the time I finally was able to stop, I had missed my destination and had to back track. My question is... is this normal? Is there a setting (like turning off the WAAS?) that would facilitate getting the signal lock back on while moving?

Can you filter out just the cache waypoints and leave the other user waypoints (like the ones we usually start a route to and from?

Its not about the $ although selling the 76cs would help alot. It is are the new features worth swapping up? Is the reception that much better. Does it keep a signal better under the canopy and in canyons? Are the bugs of the new unit so bad that we should wait? My wife is as hooked on the GPS as I am. She used it for a business conference a couple of weeks ago and boasted to all her colleagues that she did not get lost once because of the GPS... I had thought about just getting the CSX for me and giving her the 77cs but she would never use it other than in the car. Seems like overkill to have her use the 76CS for that.

Thanks... The Mapsource software has a slider bar in it when you create routes that asks how much you want it to calculate the route for major roads verses side roads. That seems to be the major difference. In this case I had it set for middle of the road, Mapsource then routed me around a major city on the interstate, while the 76CS routed me on the direct route through the city. No matter what I tried to do while driving it kept telling me to go back to that stupid little back road that went through the heart of Providence. I have since found that Mapsource's Routing tool puts in "hidden way points" when you create a route. That then tells the 76CS what roads to take.... It takes a little bit more time to create a route that way, but if you want to avoid a particular road it is worth it. I wish that the auto-routing function on the 76cs itself had a bit more options on it like the software.

Is there a way to hide the display of the Geocache Icons while I am using it for getting around and then showing them when I want? I recently erased all of the waypoints and then re-uploaded them and found out that all the ones I had marked as found were reset to not found. I erased them to give a clear screen to my wife who was using the GPS to go to a conference. She did not want to see the map covered with all those cache points. So I thought that just erasing them on the unit would be fine. But losing the found information was an unexpected side effect when I reloaded them back in.

I ran into something a bit bizarre yesterday while using the 76 on a route I had created in Mapsource and uploaded to the unit. I created the route, printed it out, uploaded it to the GPS and then went on my merry way. Only thing was when I selected the route on the GPS and started following it, it took me a completely different way than what the Mapsource route looked like on the computer and not at all like the printed directions. What did I do wrong? Or is it bug with the Mapsource and 76CS?

I bought a GPSMAP76CS last fall just before they offered the X models. Is the reception that much better in the X models than in the model I got? Other than the extra memory possibilities, which I would have loved, is there any other reason to think about tradiing up? Does Garmin offer a trade-in program so you can trade up?

Here's one more question for you. I lost the weather cap for the USB port on the back. Where can you get another one. Did not see the weather covers on the Garmin Web site in the accessories, nor did I see a spare parts page anywhere. David

Thanks... I had been on that page but did not figure out that you needed to press the stupid arrow key to move the cursor onto the correct coord number I wanted to change. That is why I said it was a stupid question! Duh! David

Hello, I need some elementary assistance... I seem to be unable to find this in the documentation. I was recently doing a multi point cache. I found the first micro no problem. Wrote down the coords and drove to the next spot via the find intersection mode.... Then I wanted to enter in the next point as a way point so I could navigate to it. How do you enter a new waypoint on the Garmin 76cs using coordinates? I know it has to be simple, but I just could not find a menu option anywhere to enter that new point. I could do it back home on the Mapsource program, no problem. But how on the unit itself? David

I have an older version of Delorme Topo (3.0) I did find a way to import all the cache waypoints into a draw layer... That works fine! I can route to them and all that on my pc and I can upload those routes to my GPS... What I do want to do is to upload the draw layer to my Palm along with the map so I can zoom out and in and view the cache's that are in a particular area. I haven't found a way to include the draw layer in my download to the Palm.The map gets there in Solus. The routes that I created get there, but the draw layer with all the caches does not transfer. Anybody know what I am doing wrong?

Do each of those logs make a separate "track" that can be saved as a route for use later or are all those tracks merged into one track with multiple legs?