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Wouldn't it be easier just to buy a seriel card for your PC?

Ha, ha, ha, you think Houston is bad. Boston streets were overlaid on cow trails. It takes Harry Hudini to get out of that mess! Moo!

The update will come out in late summer to mid-fall. And don't worry honkies, they'll get yur money.

I use my StreetPilot for navigation. When I need get a reading (store a waypoint) I use my handheld because it much easier to "mark" a location. Also, when I need to project a waypoint in this process, the handheld will do this. So when I need to mark points, I'm using 2 gpsrs. I'm a volunteer for The National Map Corps, so this is important to me.

As I was trying to explain to some yokels, UTM does not have the accuracy of WGS, or NAD because it is like trying to flatten a cap to a flat surface. This is why there is an adjustment in the zoning as moving up/down/sideways to get the "best fit". Anybody try to flatten the cut off top of a basketball? Any questions?

You can load the marine database in either unit. When you do this, you erase maps on the unit, but since you have the SD cards, you can put the maps there. I've done this with the 60cs, but without the SD card, I can't use my land maps.

The current POI Loader has been out since January '06. There is no Garmin that loads waypoints, tracks, routes to the SD card. Unfortunantly, get out the hankerchiefs cause here's a direct quote from a Garmin developer: "Most likely though, it has to do with the operating system that each uses and how it locates the database. With maps, you can have 1 set internal and 1 set on a card (each set can contain multiple maps, of course). However, since only one map is being accessed at a time (when doing things like address searches, displaying maps on the screen, etc), and since it is only a read operation, it can have several locations to read from. When it comes to other data (track logs, waypoints, etc), you are writing/modifying the data. You can't require it to be on the SD card, what if that runs out of room because it's full of maps? You have to have a section of internal memory solely dedicated to it to guarantee that you can offer a certain number of waypoints / track points. Since you're storing it internally for that reason, what happens if you were to allow more storage on an SD card? Well, now you're writing to 2 databases and having to combine them for all operations. If you have a 2 GB SD card completely full of track logs, the unit will not have the memory capable of combining those 2 databases (not to mention, which do you write new data to?). You also can't have a mirrored copy on the card, because then you're again limited to the size of the internal storage for track points / waypoints. Granted, these are my personal hunches, and may not be properly based on fact (due to my lack of knowledge of the storage of those, as well as me being at home and not having code to check if I had the time). But personally, with my hunches, I believe that Garmin is doing it properly and doesn't have much of an option to allow these additional items on SD cards."

The guy looks like a typical Garmin troll.

You don't need unlock codes for US Topo or 24K; however, you can use it for only one computer or you will be violating license agreements.

How do you get a route to display without having navigate the route or mapping the route?

If someone gives you an equally stupid answer and you end up locking your unit, then you will realize you should not ask such stupid questions.

I have a track that I uploaded from my Garmin GPS. A small segment was an accidental turn which I went back and then continued. I edited the points to delete the turn segemnt, and then loaded it back to the GPS. It showed the complete track, with the accidental turn. Is there a way to permantly delete that segment? It also shows in the track back feature.

Opps, I let the hounds loose again.

It is nice to have the calculator there. I use it to calculate line offsets (TAN(angle)*distance). But, for $10 I could live without it. Wouldn't it be better to use the hypotenuse? Just need to estimate the angle from the track direction, either with the x or y value, you can verify tangent.

I noticed the same problem with the 60cs. It just doesn't have the power to do the same routing as Mapsource on the computer.

Save your money. You might get better reception, but you won't get better accuracy. There are too many problems with the x, and a lot of it is hardwiring. Wait until Garmin comes out with one that gets it right. The x was introduced for SIRF lusters. It has the same architecture as your premium unit without the problems. PS There is no reason why POI loading can't be written into the non x mondels.

This won't be happening with the x series, forget it. The series was only introduced to satisfy SIRF lust. I'm waiting til they get it right.

May be Peter can post topo transparencies on his site. With these, you can overlay on City Select, but the jeep trails will not be routable like on the 24K maps. I hope that one day Garmin will have 24K maps for the entire US, but I don't see this happening anytime soon.

I have the StreetPilot c320 and the 60cs. The 60cs is O.K., but when you are driving, you want the voice prompts. The larger screen is much easier to read, and the really nice thing that the Streetpilot does is with the POI Loader, you can enter speed trap locations and get warnings before you get there. I guess you can do that with the 60cs as waypoints with proximity alarms. You need to go to the StreetPilots 2xxx series to make custom routes, and you can do that with the 60cs. If you are a commuter stuck in traffic alot, you may want the TMX traffic option, that needs a StreetPilot. Consider what your LONG TERM use will be and what you will be using it MOST for. I read a review in Price Grabber from someone who bought the 60cs primarily for vehicle navigation and really slammed Garmin hard for it. What I recommend is find all the units that have all the features you want, highlight those features you absolutely have to have, and then give each feature a rating from 1 to 10, pick the one with the most points up to the level which you wish to spend. Everybody who owns a GPS is biased to the one they have, you need to do your own research.

Rudeness aside, I understand there are 2 types of MCX connectors, 50 ohm and 75 ohm. However, I was going by the assumption that since cable TV cables are coaxial and can be split to 2 connections, this could be done for the MCX cable also. I assume that the Gilsson/Garmin MCX ables are 50 ohms? I would be using this for my c320 with City Select, and my 60cs with 24K topo. 24K is navigable and shows jeep trails not shown on City Select. That way when I leave the main drag, I can navigate off-road with the 60cs.

Where can I find an extra MCX plug? I extra cable from my antenna so that I would use a piece for a second mcx connector and splice it to the cable. Anyone have any success doing this?

Yes, may be not so obvious, but POI's ARE NOT LOADED to the card. Only to the unit.

Besides updating the waypoint database with 1 years new data and may be a few street changes, V7 has removed some of the redundancy or has better compression so that you can load about 30% more maps.

If your a hiker, hunter or whatever, odds are that you will be frequently visiting the areas covered by the 24K. The advantages of 24K is that for whatever location you are, it will give a DEM elevation on the map screen, it has 4x the detail of US topo, and the best feature is that it is routable giving turn by turn directions and also when applicable the option to turn on road or stay on trail. Garmin claims that with 24K you can show a profile for a route. Only in Mapsource. This falls short since this profile in the unit is not the actual route, but point a to b to c.... or however many points you wish to define a route by. Also 24K in the diplay mode, the route as described point a, b, etc.; however, only in the navigation mode will be shown as the fully navigable route. US Topo shows only in the display mode if navigation and will be like trying to ride a dead mule if navigation is attempted. If you want 24K features and don't have to have other coverage areas, 24K is excellent. US topo has basic features, ie churches, mountain names, streams, trails, lakes, parks, roads without names. US topo not being routable, The best you can achieve is walking in a single direction such as towards a waypoint or feature and is mostly for showing you where you are.

The next release for vehicle navigators using City Select will be City Navigator. Currently vehicle navigators using City Select NT which like City Navigator is segmented by entire states. This leaves me to wonder, will City Select be researved for handhelds segmented for smaller areas, while Navigator reserved for the vehicle navigators?