ctgreybeard

I've just started to set up a couple of pocket queries and I'm not getting what I expect. When I search in the "regular" search page for zip code 06801 I get caches near to me followed by ones further away as expected. But when I add a PQ search for 06801 the nearest is 7 miles away. There are MANY that are closer that aren't returned. I've even tried adding my home coords rather than usingthe zip code and I get the same results. I have a few attributes denied such as "boat", "scuba gear", etc. and that seems to be the problem. If I don't select any attributes to exclude (the icon with the slash through it) I get what I would expect. Perhaps I am using the icons/attributes incorrectly? If I don't want to see a chache that, for instance, requires scuba gear I select the scuba gear icon twice so that it shows with a red box with a slash through it, right? I guess I can just skip over the ones I'm not interested in but I thought it ought to work right anyway. Bill W.

I've got the VistaC and originally got the City Navigator. Garmin swapped it for the City Select for me because not all the segments would fit into the VistaC. Now that I have the CS I like it better than CN anyway because I can be much more selective on what to cover. If you will get a bigger/multiple memory cards then it probably doesn't matter much. As I understand it there will only be City Navigotr at V8 but the sehments will be smaller. Maybe not as small as City Select but they should fit in the Vista and Legend models. Bill

When I worked with Garmin a month ago they swapped my Navigator for Select because I bought Navigator for my VistaC (their web site was less than helpful) and some maps wouldn't load. Anyway, when I asked about V8 they said that they had "no information" (of course, I expected that) but that he "felt" that the section sizes in V8 would be better for the "fixed memory" units. From what I've heard many of us bought Navigator for the Vista and Legend and got a surprise. At least the Garmin web site would now lead me to buy City Select which is what I should have gotten in the first place.

I don't think you can meaningfully say that LatLong OR UTM are "accurate" ... they are simply measuring systems and artificial ones at that. UTM, though, has a granularity of one meter, you can't measure anything closer than that, LatLong, though, can position a spot to as close as however many decimal places you want to waste. So, using UTM you can get within one meter of whatever you are describing, with LatLong to however close you want. But what's practical? My GPSr claims 7 foot accuracy occasionally. Do I believe it? No. But even at that claimed accuracy it still can't get me beyond UTM's granularity. So, what am I saying? Use what works for you when you need it. Luckily the newer (and maye older, I don't know) can convert seamlessly from one to the other, and because the conversion is only as accurate as the current fix, they are EQUALLY accurate. YMMV Bill W

Possibly. I've got a VistaC and it only has 24meg available. There were some segments that I could not load at all and some only without routing which isn't too useful. Luckily for me Garmin support was great and they swapped out my City Navigaotr for City Select. I am now able to load segments that are more "interesting" to me. I'm much happier with City Select. Your unit has the advantage of using SD cards to hold the map data and they are 32meg which might hold any of the City Navigator segments. I don't know what the largest segment is but Southern Ontario is close to being to big for you even. Personally, I like the smaller segments of City Select, not only because some of City Navigator segments won't load in my unit, but because I can be much more selective in the coverage I get. If I had a unit with multi-megs available I'd say City Navigator is right but for our smaller capacity units I really like City Select. And kudos go to Garmin for their offer (I didn't even need to ask) to send me City Select if I returned my City Navigator DVD. Made me a very happy customer! Bill W.

As a new user with a VistaC I was VERY confused about the differences between City Navigator and Streets. It turns out that if you try to upload several of the maps WITH the routing info then they are too big for the VistaC. They would upload with the Cx, of course, but that came out just after I got my VistaC (of course!) I'm negotiating with Garmin right now to see what, if anything, they will do to honor their advertising that the City Navigator v7 is compatable wih the VistaC. In the state that it is in right now that "compatability" is a lie, the maps with the routing info will not upload to the VistaC and the maps without the routing are not useable for routing AT ALL on the VistaC. Even if you pre-compute the route in Mapselect, the VistaC will not honor the route and recomputes its own terrible route. I'm not happy right now ... the VistaC is a very nice unit but they have made a major blunder with the maps and related software. Bill W