MaliBooBoo

Ooops, sorry about that. Thanks for moving my post!

I am looking for someone who has the Garmin Oregon geocoin who would like to trade for the 62 geocoin that I have. I would like to have the coin that matches the unit that I own. Is there anybody out there??

"smaller download shouldn't be a design goal for a premium-priced product" Exactly! Good point. The cost of these maps is great so the goal shouldn't be to have them fit on a cheaper 1gb card. DEM/shaded relief should not have been removed.

From that list I take it you have chosen to not re-introduce the amazing shaded relief that was part version one yet? What a terrible shame. This was one of the best features of this product and to now exclude it is madness.

I am afraid to upgrade to Version 2 due to the lack of DEM/shaded relief. It was one of the absolute best features of the Backroad Mapbooks maps and now it has been removed. What a disappointment!

Backroad Mapbooks make the best maps for BC. But they are costly and not worth it on the old units such as the 60. One of the best features of these maps is the highly detailed shaded relief, which can only be displayed on the newer generation Garmins. I would go with Ibycus, unless you want routing. Then Topo Canada v.4 is the way to go.

I got one you can have. It's the wrong colour, though (olive drab).

MoFryFam: sorry for scooping one from your own back yard. Savant9: well done! I should've known there was a ski hill kml to go with the airstrip kml!

How 'bout this one? And no "cheesy" hints this time...

GC1ENV8 Green River Getaway. (Mar 14, 2010, lol). I'll post one in a bit...Just gotta find it again.

Well, I guess it didn't border on being too evil then.

Okay, here's one. Hopefully it doesn't border on being too evil...

Not too bad. I think it was mostly just luck because any other time I looked for them I had no success at all. Why couldn't you play last time? BTW, will the forum not let me put I picture on that I saved to gc.com? I tried and then previewed it and it didn't show up in the preview. Craig

GCWXDZ Elbow Valley View?

Getting the same on my 450 - no WAAS for me. This update seems to revert WAAS back to "Normal". Like dfx suggests, turn it back on! I get it while sitting in my kitchen.

If you don't need the camera, there is a Canadian version of the 450t. The advantage of Garmin Canadian Topo maps is that they are routable, whereas Ibycus (or 100k Topo US) isn't. Also, Topo Canada has shaded relief.

You maybe shoud've taken the fifty bucks!

I need the rubber piece that covers the antenna. My baby had the unit for about 10 seconds and chewed right through it. Yes, he was teething!

How about this: don't have it in a cache in the first place.

I would suggest a Delorme PN-60w for snowmobiling. The added Spot receiver could really come in handy when things decide to go sideways on you.

Thanks Team CowboyPapa. I was just wondering about the shaded relief because I have never seen a screenshot that showed it. I assume the Canada Topo maps have it as well? Delorme seems to be making an interesting product now. Particularly the unit with the Spot. And the addition of Canadian/Mexican mapping.

I have a couple of questions: Do the maps display shaded relief on the unit? And I get the impression that it is fairly onerous to load the unit with maps. Is this true? For example, how hard would it be to put say all of BC, WA, OR, CA, and NV on it? Or to update Northwest Trails on a monthlyish basis? Thanks!

Any chance that you didn't reboot your Oregon when unzip/copying them directly, and that you did reboot when you used your PC's HD as an interim position? My Oregon only seems to acknowledge new *.gpx or *.img loads on power up - that's when it loads them from 'external' to 'internal' memory where they are actually usable (the newer firmware actually has a progress indicator for that). That's true in that the unit seemed to freeze upon startup at about halfway along the progress indicator. I gave it a good 10-15 minutes before taking the batteries out and starting again. However, afterwards while troubleshooting, I did delete the PQs off of the unit and started over and still only one PQ displayed caches on the unit (until I pasted them over from the HD). Thanks for your effort in trying to help in figuring this out with me, btw!

The only time I've had something like that happen was when (on rare occasion) I'd load more than one PQ on my Oregon and forget to rename one of them, accidentally copying over another one that was already there. But if you're using the PQs just as they come, they should all have unique names. At max, how many cache *.gpx files (with unique names, of course) are resident on your Oregon, and what's (roughly) the total cache count of those files? I had cleared all off and was trying to put 4 PQs back on. One of which was my hides. So slightly over 3000, not accounting for duplicate caches. I did find a workaround that worked, though. I tried saving them to a folder on my computer and then pasting them onto the Oregon and this worked like a charm. I still don't know why it happens though. Hmm... you are taking the simple approach to moving them to your unit now. How were you trying to move to them to your unit before? Mapsource? I noted you were reading them FROM your unit with Mapsource, but I don't see what you were using to get them to your unit to begin with. Since the simple copying process is working for you now, I'm guessing that the specific use of whatever tool you were using to load your Oregon before may have a lot to do with your missing caches. Nahhh, I was extracting the zip files directly to the Oregon and 3 of 4 weren't showing caches on the unit even though the files were all listed as being on the unit and would even open in Mapsource. Now, if I take the extra step of saving them to the computer and pasting them over to the unit, they work. I know, very strange behaviour!

The only time I've had something like that happen was when (on rare occasion) I'd load more than one PQ on my Oregon and forget to rename one of them, accidentally copying over another one that was already there. But if you're using the PQs just as they come, they should all have unique names. At max, how many cache *.gpx files (with unique names, of course) are resident on your Oregon, and what's (roughly) the total cache count of those files? I had cleared all off and was trying to put 4 PQs back on. One of which was my hides. So slightly over 3000, not accounting for duplicate caches. I did find a workaround that worked, though. I tried saving them to a folder on my computer and then pasting them onto the Oregon and this worked like a charm. I still don't know why it happens though.