bobkeenan

Last year Garmin announced that all of its Mapsource software would also be compatible with OS X "by the end of 2006". Does anyone know what is going on with that??

My tired old eyes don't like the black on grey background. I got a new Palm Z22 that is black on white.

I have a nearly new Palm Vx with leather case, a Belkin serial to USB converter, a travel charger, and two cradles with power supply. I got the unit just a few months ago. it works great and only had a few charge cycles on it. I would like to sell all of the equipment for $60 including shipping.

I have a Garmin 60Csx with City Navigatior Europe, Mapsource, MS Europe Autoroute, Garmin POI Loader, GPS Babel, GSAK and of course access to Googelearth and other online maping programs. This Christmas we are going to Germany. While I am geocaching there I would love to use the custom POI feature of the GPSr. As we are reading about great places in our Fordors, Lonely Planet and other books. I would love to go to a map program. Locate the spot. Get a CSV or create a collection of CSV files. I would like to add a short note. Then using the POI Loader upload that to my GPSr. Oh a different ICON would be good. What would be the best way to do that? Thanks

Well... thanks for the advice. I got a macbook pro. Used bootcamp, then my XP pro. Everything works!! This is so cool....

I have been geocaching for a few months now. I use a Dell laptop with windows XP, a Garmin 60Csx, a Palm pilot V, GSAK, and cachemate. Everything works great. I am using a software version of City Navigator 8 with one key used and one to go. My main home computer is a older G4 Mac. Well tonight my dell laptop is showing signs that it is near death. It nearly gave up the ghost a few months ago. I was always planning on upgrading my home G4 to one of the new Macbooks. I think it is time to do it now. I also have an install disc for XP pro at home. So here is the question...... will Mapsource, citynavigator 8, GSAK, and my palm V all work on the new Macbook if I load it with my Win XP pro (I think I can do this with apples bootcamp???).

I got a 60CSx recently and I LOVE it. I had the old yellow etrex for about 4 year. Then upgraded to legend and quickly went to the 60CSx. The last two purchases were associated with my new interest in geocaching. Lately have have been using the autorouting function on my GPSr with City Navigator installed. Its great. Last weekend we were driving around Milwaukee (we were visiting from CA) and did not have a clue where we were. But with the GPSr it kept guiding us to our destination no matter how much we screwed up. Anyhow here is the question. There are a plethora of auto routing options. I get the shorts distance and fastest time. But I do not understand all of the "calculate routes for" car/motorcycle, truck, bus, emergency, taxi, delivery, pedestrian, bicycle". Is this documented anywhere? I am looking for the best setting when I travel.

I too have had this compass problem with my new 60csx. It happened while I was looking for my cache and the compass froze up. I get the hold level warning. But I am holding it level. I found out that pulling out the batteries ( turning it off and on seemed to not help) and reinstalling fixed it for a while. I also noticed that calibrating the compas fixed it temporarily. But this is annoying. I wonder what is up?

I have been finding some use in using the google earth routing and then getting a query based on the route. The problem is that google earth does not seem to do a multi stop route and only works with an internet connection. I bought a copy of MS Autoroute 2006. It does excellent routing and you can save the routes as .axe files. I would like to convert my saved routes in that program to something that will work with Groundspeak's route query system. I have not been able to figure that out yet. Anyone out there doing this??

Yes I thought that might be the answer. The PC will create an autoroute on Metroguide. On the PC its a perfect fit to each road. But it creates a very simple waypoint list based on turns and changes to roads. So when you upload it to the old Legend you get a route based on the waypoint list. Legend will not let the roads guide the route. This Christmas I will get myself a 60csx and a copy of Navigator or select. I was just wanting to see if I could upload some routes based on the autorouting capability of metroguide.

I have created an auto route in mapsource on my pc... Very cool! When I upload the route to my legend I get a gross 12 waypoint route that approximates the route on my pc but in some cases is pretty far off. Is this the best I can do with routing on the legend? Or is there a way in increase the waypoints generated in metroguide so the legend route is more accurate?

I just upgraded from a 2000 old yellow etrex to the legend (the big upgrade to the 60c will be this Christmas ). I noticed that you can select whether you want WAAS on or off. Why would you ever want it off??

I set up my first cache yesterday. I took the advice on-line and walked back and forth 10 times and took 10 readings. Then I averaged them. But I then input the coordinates into google earth and I was about 15-20 feet off. So changed the settings until google put the cursor right on my cache. It was pretty close to one of my 10 readings but 15-20 ft from my average. So which is more like to be accurate. Google Earth or my averages?