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Mr Kaswa

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  1. If you are just trying to display a track on top of the maps might I suggest using the track manager instead? Copy your GPX files to Oregon:\Garmin\GPX (NOT 'Current' or 'archived') Turn the Oregon on and select, 'Track Manager' You should see, 'Current', 'Archived', and then a list of your GPX files. Select a GPX and choose, 'Show on map' or 'hide on map'
  2. Have you tried plugging the GPS into your computer and deleting the track(s)? YourGarminDriveLetter:\Garmin\GPX\Current
  3. Plug your 450 into your computer with the USB cable and select "yes" when it asks if you want to connect to the computer. From the "Your Profile" drop down menu on the top of a geocaching.com page select "Field notes". At the bottom choose, "upload field notes from a handheld GPS device." Select the "Garmin" tab and follow the instructions.... perhaps substituting 'choose file' for 'browse'. Hope that helps Link right to it.
  4. I'm not certain, but does this thread help you out?
  5. I think I'm lucky where I am as we have lots of green space. If you took out the US power trails I have done my micro % would be about 20%, there are very few LPCs or gaurd-rail caches here but I can see that going up as the options for hiding a nice cache in a nice park are greatly reduced. Didn't the laying of the power trails that caused Metro Vancouver Parks to create this new policy already greatly reduce the options for hiding a nice cache in a nice park? *edited to make a little more sense.
  6. If I select the 'Pocket Queries' tab while viewing Google maps in Chrome I am getting the following odd behavior. - The scale, map data copyright information, zoom/navigation control, and the boxes for selecting map/satellite move about one inch up the page. The map/satellite selectors go right off the top and cannot be accessed. - If I do not select an actual query, or if I do and then go back to search, the spot where the cache information balloon appears moves half an inch to two inches below the caches icon. Windows 7, Google Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m, no extensions.
  7. How did you set it to "target Brick"? How is it still directing you to cache x? Which screen(s)?
  8. I do not think that you can change which page comes up after you select 'GO'. The best you can do is to add a compass to the map. Setup > Map > Data Fields > Custom > When Navigating > Dashboard > Compass. This will place a compass in the top 1/3 of the map. There are a few other options that will get you various different compasses on that map as well. I like to use, Setup > Map > Data Fields > Dashboard > Geocaching - Nearest. Fiddle and muddle through the choices and hopefully you can find something you like! *Edited to add words that I forgot the first time.
  9. I also would like a chance please. Thanks for your generosity
  10. Could you be going over a B.E. file size limit? I recall that with the satellite version there was at least one scenario where BE would pretend all was fine, but, because what you had asked for was too big it would download a lower detail level without telling you.
  11. Four containers and a can of that "ultra-flat" camo spray paint, Olive Drab.
  12. I would include any trail of caches with more than three or four placed 528 feet apart that take up the entire length of a trail.
  13. Create a folder on the memory card Drive Letter:\Garmin\Birdseye (basecamp may create this on it's own when you try to copy the images, but I do not recall). You can then select the images you wish to transfer and either drag them up to the memory card in the "Devices" section, or right click and choose, "Send to".
  14. Couldn't you load both POIs and GPX? Use the POIs for sorting and finding and then once you've found the cache you could search for the nearest cache, which should be the one you have just found, and log the attempt?
  15. Setup>Routing>Guidance Method = Off Road.
  16. Setup>System>Interface Choose Garmin Spanner. This should allow you to choose between going into mass storage mode and using the GPSr as normal when you plug it into your computer or turn it on when it is already plugged in. When you are in mass storage mode, you will not be able to do anything with the unit. There is no way to delete the GPX, or an individual cache, from the units menus. As, Reardon41 said, enter mass storage mode and delete the gpx. The Garmin Oregon Wiki has answers to many other questions.
  17. I can't think of what else it might be. If no one any wiser than me comes along you will have to try contacting Garmin. Here is the Statue of Liberty from a demo in my Basecamp at 120 feet to show what should be possible.
  18. The only other thing that leaps to mind is if you tried to download a sample using the pencil tool to draw the outline and it was "too big". IF you use the pencil tool, Basecamp draws a rectangle around your outline after you click on "download", it then calculates the file size off of this box. In this situation Basecamp will not prevent you from downloading the file if it considers the file size to be too big, it just drops the detail level down and keeps going, without warning.
  19. I'm not sure about the demo, but once purchased there are different levels of detail. If the demo offers the different levels make sure you have selected the highest. Not all areas are covered by the same quality of image. The city I live in is covered by Google Earth quality imagery, 50 miles up the highway and it looks like it was drawn with pencil crayons.
  20. The large red pointer on the compass on the main compass page should certainly be pointing in the direction of whatever you are navigating to.(in all profiles, I believe). The smaller compasses in the upper left corner of the map or main compass page are part of the "geocaching dashboard", and they will only ever point in the direction of the nearest geocache, or a geocache that you are navigating to, but not to regular a waypoint. A screen shot of my 450 pointing to where I am navigating as well as the dashboard still showing the nearest geocache. Edited to not use a giant image.
  21. There is also a button in the main menu titled, "Waypoint Averaging", choose this, select, "Create Waypoint" and then set the unit down next to the cache for 10-15 minutes. Then find it with the Waypoint Manager from the main menu.
  22. If this is the same problem that myself and others have had, keep the gpx files on the microSD card instead of internal memory. If your caches disappear on you... Take out the batteries and card. Insert batteries and reboot. Once it's fully ready to go, shut down the machine. Reinsert card and batteries and turn the Oregon back on. This should cause the Oregon to reload the gpx files.
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