ZachNLiam
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You can turn the maps off, but you can't delete them.
But they shouldn't be "slowing down" your Legend at all. My son has a Legend and we're constantly uploading different map sets, of all sizes, and I've never noticed anything like that.
Also, make sure you have the most current firmware update. That could make a big difference.
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I don't live there, but I have the full unlock. This is an image of the City Navigator (for Street Pilot III) maps covering a much larger area than you could fit, but you can see the map sizes on the left, and hopefully you can make out the faint lines between maps on the map page.
In my experience the GPSV maps are just slightly smaller than the SPIII maps, so you may do just a little better than this, but at least it will give you something to look at!
I uploaded it here:
http://www.jamzcheer.com/umcmap.gif
Hope that helps! I'm sure you're chomping at the bit!
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We've found 'wildlife' at two of the caches we've done here in the middle of California. One was a particularly difficult cache (4.5 stars) and the whole time we were looking around for it a big (but very sickly skinny) BULL was staring right at us, about 30 feet away. It never moved fortunately. There would have been nowhere for us to go.
The other time we were looking for a cache stuck up in the roots of a tree on a riverbank. When I finally spotted the cache I realized there was something else there also. There was a big OWL 6 INCHES from the cache. I have no idea what owls do when they are awoken, but I VERY CAREFULLY removed and replaced the cache. It gave me a creepy feeling, because you really had to climb into this tree's roots to get to the cache. I had visions of my face being torn off by this freaking owl!!!
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We've found 'wildlife' at two of the caches we've done here in the middle of California. One was a particularly difficult cache (4.5 stars) and the whole time we were looking around for it a big (but very sickly skinny) BULL was staring right at us, about 30 feet away. It never moved fortunately. There would have been nowhere for us to go.
The other time we were looking for a cache stuck up in the roots of a tree on a riverbank. When I finally spotted the cache I realized there was something else there also. There was a big OWL 6 INCHES from the cache. I have no idea what owls do when they are awoken, but I VERY CAREFULLY removed and replaced the cache. It gave me a creepy feeling, because you really had to climb into this tree's roots to get to the cache. I had visions of my face being torn off by this freaking owl!!!
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I have received three copies of Elements in various digital imaging equipment I've bought, and it is REALLY powerful for how inexpensive it is. It does MOST of the things my Photoshop 7 does.
The interesting feature for what you're trying to do is in Photoshop 6, 7, and Elements, and is called "Save For Web.." It doesn't require you to change your loaded image AT ALL. It brings up a split screen where you can see the "before and after" of your image, will allow you to save it as a different size, and even see the finished file size BEFORE you save it.
I bring this feature up when I'm trying to make an image "web ready" change the IMAGE SIZE control to 640 pixels on the LONG side of the image, hit apply, and it's small. Then I tweak the .jpg quality settings to get the best balance of quality and image size. I try to hit around the 90k size for this website, because they claim they'll take an image up to 100k.
This works great, and when you're done you won't accidentally overwrite your original LARGE image when you close the program.
BTW, Elements RETAILS for $89, and for what it does it's a bargain.
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I have received three copies of Elements in various digital imaging equipment I've bought, and it is REALLY powerful for how inexpensive it is. It does MOST of the things my Photoshop 7 does.
The interesting feature for what you're trying to do is in Photoshop 6, 7, and Elements, and is called "Save For Web.." It doesn't require you to change your loaded image AT ALL. It brings up a split screen where you can see the "before and after" of your image, will allow you to save it as a different size, and even see the finished file size BEFORE you save it.
I bring this feature up when I'm trying to make an image "web ready" change the IMAGE SIZE control to 640 pixels on the LONG side of the image, hit apply, and it's small. Then I tweak the .jpg quality settings to get the best balance of quality and image size. I try to hit around the 90k size for this website, because they claim they'll take an image up to 100k.
This works great, and when you're done you won't accidentally overwrite your original LARGE image when you close the program.
BTW, Elements RETAILS for $89, and for what it does it's a bargain.
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Although I'm a former GPSV owner, I can tell you you'll love your GPSV.
Now to explain: I sold my GPSV only because I wanted the big color screen and memory of the Street Pilot III. I ALREADY owned a GPSMAP76, so I was covered out of the car.
The GPSV is absolutely the best all-around gps unit available.
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I'm glad I didn't read this story before our local newspaper, the Modesto Bee, followed us on a cache hunt! But I prepared. I contacted one of the best cachers in our area and asked him if he wanted to be part of the story also.
He hid a 'special' cache just for the event. That way if we REALLY had trouble he'd be there. He came up with a VERY clever cache (don't want to give anything away) that amused the reporter as well as us. It took us about 10-15 minutes to find it after about a 3/4 mile trek on some nice trails. Just about perfect for a story!
My boys are very excited about the story, which is supposed to come out on October 6, 2002, if what I understand is correct. It should be on their website then at www.modbee.com.
It was really fun and we can't wait to get to read the story!
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One of my Grandparents is from Arkansas, and the other is from Oklahoma. Do I just take the mean age between the two, or is everything just hopeless???
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One of my Grandparents is from Arkansas, and the other is from Oklahoma. Do I just take the mean age between the two, or is everything just hopeless???
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The coordinates for the cache BEING the actual place that needs the toys? You could coordinate with someone at a Children's Hospital or something and give that person's name as the contact to give the toy to.
Then you post a find, and everyone's happy. You'd have to post a "time" that was appropriate of course, whatever this contact person thinks is good.
In a big city, I'm sure this would bring in LOTS of toys.
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Anyone thinking that Ron is trying to get quantity over quality has NEVER gone after his caches. They are consistently unique, and he does a great job on them. Also, making it members only makes a BIG difference in this situation.
We have 2 cachers in our area that both place OUTSTANDING caches, and they both have around 100. I can't imaging the caching wasteland our area would be if it weren't for them (and others as well). A BIG reason I got into caching was the quality of caches in our area when I first checked this hobby out.
The arguments might make sense if they were directed at a newbie, who didn't "get it" yet. But they make no sense directed at Ron.
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I've used this program for a while as a "translater" for other things I wanted to do, but I haven't tried your step-by-step exactly.
Thanks! Sometimes you just miss obvious stuff!
Randy
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I've used this program for a while as a "translater" for other things I wanted to do, but I haven't tried your step-by-step exactly.
Thanks! Sometimes you just miss obvious stuff!
Randy
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My boys both LOVE geocaching. My 9 year old has a Legend (a Bday present when I realized how he really understood the maps on my MAP76) and my 6 year old has his older brother's eTrex yellow. They love going after the caches, and I usually hang behind them and let them zero out first.
They are SO excited when they can get it completely on their own.
They got the hang of this after only a few cache hunts - but my 9 year old does ask LOTS of questions, and is very interested in gps units in general (he has the Garmin brochure memorized!).
I think it works well to take them on a hunt with a preprogrammed gps, let them do it and THEN start to explain the things that make it work. They can really visualize how all this happens when they've done it themselves.
BTW, he's having a geocaching birthday party soon!
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I found references to a couple threads on converting tracks to routes (the other way around). Nat'l Geo TOPO does this easily. If I HIKED this trail, then I'd have the track I need! I want to create it from the map of the trail I have.
Both Tracks and Routes can be exported as text files and then imported, but they are somewhat different - too different to do a simple copy and paste into the other. But it shouldn't be hard to write a program to do this.
I'm surprised this hasn't come up more often. With the 'current track' being able to hold well over 1000 points, and saved tracks around 250, the measly 50 (at most) points of a route doesn't seem as useful at all, especially for trails with switchbacks and such.
I'm going to use this feature (as a route of course) on the 4 mile Yosemite/Glacier Point trail this weekend. Maybe it will work very well and I won't care anymore about converting it. We'll see!
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I found references to a couple threads on converting tracks to routes (the other way around). Nat'l Geo TOPO does this easily. If I HIKED this trail, then I'd have the track I need! I want to create it from the map of the trail I have.
Both Tracks and Routes can be exported as text files and then imported, but they are somewhat different - too different to do a simple copy and paste into the other. But it shouldn't be hard to write a program to do this.
I'm surprised this hasn't come up more often. With the 'current track' being able to hold well over 1000 points, and saved tracks around 250, the measly 50 (at most) points of a route doesn't seem as useful at all, especially for trails with switchbacks and such.
I'm going to use this feature (as a route of course) on the 4 mile Yosemite/Glacier Point trail this weekend. Maybe it will work very well and I won't care anymore about converting it. We'll see!
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Garmin will generally still release upgrades AFTER a unit is even discontinued. The Legend is still a current model. I'm sure it's in for quite a few more firmware upgrades.
I think it's great to get these new features. I have 4 Garmin gps units and anytime there's a new upgrade (including betas) I download them and use them. I have yet to be disappointed. Any real bugs seem to get taken care of very quickly.
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Does anyone know of a program that will take routes (created in Garmin MapSource, or Nat'l Geo TOPO! or whatever) and convert them to TRACKS?
I want to follow a trail this weekend, and the TOPO! software will create a great route with 50 waypoints along the way, etc. The problem is I don't NEED 50 WAYPOINTS! I only care about the beginning and end of the trail, and a saved track can hold about 250 turns, not just 50.
Nat'l Geo will create the route with as many waypoints as I want (like the 250 of the tracks), but my gps will only do routes of 50. Again, I don't care about the interim waypoints anyway. To me a track would better represent a single trail than a route would anyway.
Does this make sense? Help if you've figured this out! Thanks!
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I don't really care that umc is posting so much. Some of the threads he has started are pretty interesting actually, but this particular one has come up MANY times. Please do a search before starting a thread like this.
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All Garmin unlock certificates allow you to unlock the maps for TWO units. Their thinking is if you own the V and want to unlock the same maps for say a Legend, you can. They won't give you more than 2 though. All you have to do is log on with your certificate and put in the other unit's ID.
Besides, if you buy a NEW V, they all come with full unlock, but the 2 unit thing would really help if you got a good deal on a used one.
I've never taken advantage of this, even though I currently own THREE mapping Garmin units (I know - sick, huh?). I like having City Navigator in my SPIII and Metroguide/TOPO in my GPSMAP76. It's fun to compare the two - they both have their strengths....
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There's a program that will do this also. You can open multiple instances of EasyGPS data and merge them all and then convert them to MapSource waypoints. It's called geobuddy and you can get it from
I have also uploaded it to my own website:
http://www.randyjensenphoto.com/gps/GeoBuddy.exe
Another interesting program I've found is one that displays in 3D the current track data. It's on my site here:
http://www.randyjensenphoto.com/gps/height_dis.zip
These are 2 extremely useful programs that are both free! I have nothing to do with either author and hopefully they won't be upset with me putting them on my site. I just wanted to make it easy for me to always have access to them!
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I have archived Warrio #2. It was getting very wet, and is now gone. It's an interesting story (thanks Nailtram for the great description of what happened!). I posted part of his email to me on what happened on the page for the cache. If you want to read it, it's pretty funny:
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I have archived Warrio #2. It was getting very wet, and is now gone. It's an interesting story (thanks Nailtram for the great description of what happened!). I posted part of his email to me on what happened on the page for the cache. If you want to read it, it's pretty funny:
Cool GPS case at Fry's
in West and Southwest
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They're great to look around at cool toys, but in my experience their prices are considerably higher than other places.
Wal-Mart had the GPSV for $399.97 when the price first "dropped" and Fry's NEVER came around to that and kept selling the GPSV basic for $100 more. And the idiot salespeople didn't get the fact that EVERYONE was $100 cheaper than them.
When the SPIII Deluxe hit the shelves you could preorder them pretty much ANYWHERE for $799. I called Fry's and was quoted $1200. That's freaking RETAIL on it. I think they wound up selling it for $999, $200 more than anyone else.
At least on gps units they're prices aren't good. I did buy MapSource TOPO there because EVERYONE is retail on that, and they were too and they had it in stock (impulse buy - lol).