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I am almost positive you will find a used Garmin etrex for $75 or under! Heck, they can be found for under a hundred bucks new! Search ebay.

I am almost positive you will find a used Garmin etrex for $75 or under! Heck, they can be found for under a hundred bucks new! Search ebay.

Check it out on ebay here....ebay item# 1351116023

You must be using the new version on MG to have this feature. Then, open the program, go to the "help" tab, click on "index" and type in "automatic route". There it all is!

See this on ebay: Brunton Multi-Navigator MNS-GPS W/Case *NIB* Item # 1349590945

quote:I have a Meridian with 128MB. I cannot even imagine only having 8MB. The Legend (actually the whole e-trex line) was designed primarily as "in your hands" hiking companions, easily carried, small and light weight. Not as "on the dash" car models. This use means "primarily" Topo will be of greatest value to you. 8 mb is a "lot" of country! Unless you drive 300 miles between caches in the same day, it's too easy to download different maps for a different region for a different day. Just to have 64 mb or 128 mb loaded on a GPSR at once is cool, no doubt, but that doesn't make it any more effective. My Garmin V has 19 mb, and I could get by with a lot less than that. I seldom fill the memory, unless I am taking a real serious road trip somewhere. I have never filled it with Topo. I've onlu ever done maybe 8 mb of Topo at once. Also as for the 12v. car adapter cable....garmin charges about $37 or so, for that thing. Do you know how many alkalines you could buy for that much? Better yet, use the same $40 to get NiMH rechargeables and a charger base!

Be aware that the Venture only has 1 mb of memory. Not enough to really use either Metroguide or Topo. You might get one small peice of Metroguide(latest version) loaded on, assuming you looked hard to find one that was under 1 mb in size. You might get 2 peices of Topo loaded on if they too were small. If I were buying digital maps for using only on my computer, so I can then upload and download waypoints and routes and perhaps print my own 7.5 min. maps., look at All Topo or National Geographic. Both very good products.

quote:If you have the 4.01 and turn off the auto route function you can find some maps that will fit. Rocky is refering to the newest released version of the Metroguide software. The "chunks" of maps are broken into smaller areas than on previous releases. The autorouting is also found on this software, not on your Garmin. If you turn off this autorouting feature, the map data shrinks in size considerably. Some of these will now fit on your III+. I couldn't guess if they might actually be an aea you are interested in or not. Even if they are, you would only get one or two of them loaded in, and they would be an area that had very little data in it, meaning a very rural area.

quote:If you have the 4.01 and turn off the auto route function you can find some maps that will fit. Rocky is refering to the newest released version of the Metroguide software. The "chunks" of maps are broken into smaller areas than on previous releases. The autorouting is also found on this software, not on your Garmin. If you turn off this autorouting feature, the map data shrinks in size considerably. Some of these will now fit on your III+. I couldn't guess if they might actually be an aea you are interested in or not. Even if they are, you would only get one or two of them loaded in, and they would be an area that had very little data in it, meaning a very rural area.

quote:RideBent has a Vista not a V. Vista doesn't do auto-routing. The Metroguide software (new version) will do the autorouting for him on his PC. Then he can download the route to the Vista. Sort of makes the Vista do the V's tricks, huh?

quote:RideBent has a Vista not a V. Vista doesn't do auto-routing. The Metroguide software (new version) will do the autorouting for him on his PC. Then he can download the route to the Vista. Sort of makes the Vista do the V's tricks, huh?

quote:search for thomas distributing on the net. The link I posted above "is" Thomas Distributing. Great company.

Here's my favorite dealer: http://www.durashop.com/ You can also find a great many dealers on e-bay. I just bought 12 rechargeable GP 1800 NiMH AA's for a little over $2.00 each from an e-bay dealer a couple of nights ago.

Like stated above, the batteries would be way too expensive to replace. I have been using rechargeable NiMH AA's for a long time now. I haven't bought alkaline AA's for a long, long time and I think it's a waste to do so! Get rechargeables! I use them in all my AA "devices".

Just watch the news tonight and they will tell you where the fire was! ;-)

It will all depend on the areas you are trying to look at. For instance, you will get more than the whole state on Kansas on 8 megs., but not even the whole L.A. basin on the same amount. There is simply more data in the Los Angeles area than Kansas. More roads, more points of interest, etc. The same with Topo. If you are trying to load a very mountainous area such as the Rockies or Alaska, the area will be much smaller than an equivalent amount of memory in say Kansas again. So, everyone will report a different amount of geography loaded on the same amount of memory, depending on what they are looking at.

I have used it and don't like it one bit. I used it with my E-Map and the dang thing would just drop. Unexpectedly. Made me real nervous smacking the dash like that. They need 3 suction cups on it for redundancy.

quote:25' off was probably due to something else like weak batteries Man....25 feet can't be considered "off"! And to those of you who want DST year-round....Wait 'till you have to send a teenage daughter out to a cold dark bus stop on a Winter's morning! That's all we need is another hour of darkness in the morning.

Different memory. Go ahead and load the total 24 megs. if you like!

I am not totally sure, but I don't believe they are compatable.

Holy crap! I thought my Garmin V was a bit on the big side. I guess I have to confess stupidity, but what on Earth would this give you that my V and a quad map and compass in my backpack wouldn't? It doesn't look like the sort of thing I'm going to throw in my backpack and take with me very often. Someone help me out here and tell me what it would be used for, other than maybe search and rescue or military infiltration operations.

Maps and compasses "speak" different "languages" Maps speak True North, while a compass only knows Magnetic North. You can select which "language" your GPSR "speaks" by selecting the North reference in setup that matches what you are using the GPSR with. If you are trying to match it up with a map, then select True North. If you are using it with a compass, select Mag. North. If you aren't using it with either, then it doesn't matter one bit.

Maps and compasses "speak" different "languages" Maps speak True North, while a compass only knows Magnetic North. You can select which "language" your GPSR "speaks" by selecting the North reference in setup that matches what you are using the GPSR with. If you are trying to match it up with a map, then select True North. If you are using it with a compass, select Mag. North. If you aren't using it with either, then it doesn't matter one bit.

I'm pretty sure they(terorists) have all the ideas they need, and they don't come from American media. I doubt they got he idea of flying 757's into buildings from watching the nightly news. Whoever said they were stupid were wrong! They accomplished with 20 people and our own airplanes, what an entire military couldn't have accomplished. We have defenses built to protect against military forces, not terrorist forces. Don't worry, they already have GPS receivers and have already been trying to figure out how to use them as a weapon. Look at Israel. "Low tech" suicide bombers can not be stopped by any level of military defense.

You going to be in Northern Utah at all? Would like to meet you guys. Maybe do a few local caches I have not yet done.