beauxp
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Any news if they are going to offer more than just a couple state at a time on something other than a memory card, such as a dvd or cd?
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Any one know the benefits of Mapsources version 3 over version 2 of the us topo 24k National Parks disks?
I do see that version 3 has shaded relieve to make it more 3d looking. Anything else.
I have Version 2 of West product and was thinking about buying v3 but did not know if it was worth it?
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I am looking for V3 of west also. have looked all over for used copy of place to download. Have only found V2
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Only time I recalibrate it is when I am in the woods or on the trail. Then I do it everyday just to be safe. Not that big of a deal though.
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I have had a 60csx for about 1 1/2 years. I really like it. It was the best you could get in handheld from Garmin until the new Colorado units came out.
I would think that the 60csx will soon be a thing of the past and you should be able to get one cheap real soon.
Very rugged unit, gets and keeps signal very well. If you don't mind buying the maps it will route on the highway, woods, water, wherever.
Batteries last me about 19 hours.
Never have used a Vista nor have I ever been in temperature lower than 25 with my Garmin so I can speak about the cold.
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No problem. After I posted that photo I thought about another program I have National Geographics National Parks Explorer 3d. It has the trail you are talking about. Also with this program you can trace the trails to set up routes and save them as .gpx files or upload them to your garmin. Here is a screen shot from it.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7533392
Check it out. I think this might be what you are looking for
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I did a screen shot, but I am not sure how to post it.
Two closest trails are 1/2 mile away due to the West is North Inlet Trail and 1 mile to the east is Loch Vale Trail.
Tell me how to post and I will do it.
I went to the Rocky Mountain National Park last year, loved it.
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A new release?
I wonder what they would change? The maps themselves can't be any better than the current version, and it hasn't been out all that long.
I thought they came out with version 3 more than a year and 1/2 ago. figured since they just came out with USA Topo 2008 and new street program that this would be next.
Also thought I saw something about this. Maybe not.
Shame they don't put some sort of trail routing within the regular topo program.
I have version 2 of West and East and Version 3 of Central. Main difference I see between version 2 and 3 is that 3 is shaded to make it look 3d. The two best benefits to me with these products is that it is more detail (example, more elevation lines, more trails, mapsites, ect) and you can route on the trails on these products. That is really nice.
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A new release?
I wonder what they would change? The maps themselves can't be any better than the current version, and it hasn't been out all that long.
I thought they came out with version 3 more than a year and 1/2 ago. figured since they just came out with USA Topo 2008 and new street program that this would be next.
Also thought I saw something about this. Maybe not.
Shame they don't put some sort of trail routing within the regular topo program.
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Anyone hear any news of a new release of us topo 24k National Parks?
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The US Topo 1:100K is the best you can get for your Garmin for complete uploadable topo map coverage of the U.S. I like having it along with my street mapping (City Select in my case). This topo gives a lot of good added land features and I feel it is well worth the cost. I also have Nat Parks 24K Topo (East) and for my area of northestern NY it adds terrific detailed topo coverage.
That would be great. If it were so, I would wait for it to come out rather than buying the product already out there
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I did some hiking in a nearby State Park last weekend, and was using tracks to mark the trails. As I would reach the end of a trail, I would turn off the tracking, so it wouldn't show the return tracks going back to the begining of the trail, I covered quite a few trails, turning the tracking on, and off as needed to keep the display nice & neat.
My problem is, when I went to save the tracks, (so I could bring them back up the next time I visist this park), it saved everything, including all of the tracks from when I was walking around with the tracking turned off. So now it shows up as quite a jumbled mess on the screen. But the original tracks I have are nice and neat.
Is there any way to just save what is showing on the screen? & not everything else?
I played around on the computer using mapsource, but couldn't figure out how to get rid of all the extra tracks showing up.
Any help / comments would be appreciated.
Sounds like you should have just saved each tract and named it as you were going instead of turning tracking off. Then you could have cleared your tracks before you began the next trail.
You can edit tracks in Garmins software. You use the set of tools with the pencil, eraser, ect. I have edited several tracts before.
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Anyone out there use Energizer e2 Lithium or e2 Titanium batteries with their GPSmap 60csx. I currently use energizer rechargables and get about 19 hours out of them. Any experience with these others?
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I am looking for the Garmin 24k national parks maps. Especially those for Arkansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Can you download these from anywhere on a trial basis or just buy these states?
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Looking to download or buy some of the 24k maps. especially of Arkansas
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Any way to turn it off?
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I had a similar problem with an Explorist 400 I used to have. The problem for me was in the com port settings. I had to go into Start, Settings, Control Panel, phone and modem settings, modems tab, then click on the Explorist unit and change the com port to something below 10. I think I changed mine to something between 1-4.
You probably have installed some other hardware that has changed your ports on you (thanks to Microsoft) and your explorist got the boot.
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If you are refering to being able to just view the topo maps or the street maps then yes. In the map setup you can turn maps off or on so that they can be viewed or not.
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Hello.
I live in Portugal but I recently bought a Magellan eXplorist 400 GPS device from North America. I wanted to update the firmware and made all the steps in your website. After the process got done I was turning on my GPS and when choosing the Language, which I wanted Portuguese. I selected that language and the device blocked so I had to remove the batery to turn it on again. So I choosed English which was the only one working. After that I was told to insert time and date, and I also did that. And at last, when It should be in the gps screen, with the map and so, just after load, I got a Error Message "Invalid Basemap Default Map Loading..." And I got nothing else. What should I do? It was working fine before the firmware update but now I have no way to restore it. Tried to Re-install the firmware but is the same story again and again.
Thank You
Send it back to magellan if a hard reset (when off press goto+out+pwr) and a basemap upload at http://www.rhamphorhinkx.ecohost.ru/maps/ doesn't fix it. Just double-click the .zip while your unit is connected.
You might also try to send it back to company you bought it from. I had a similar problem happen when I tried to do a firmware update on an explorist 400 unit.
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I know many of you guys have suggestions to make to Garmin, Magellan, ect to let them know what we need/want to see from their products. Do any of you guys know where any of these companies have a suggestions board?
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garmin told me that sandisk has a 2 gb that works with the gpsmap 60 units On the web site they do list certain manufactures to stick with. I understand that there have been problems with others than the ones listed on the site. I would probably stick with one from sandisk since they test these.
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I also have Mapsend Topo 3D USA that I don't need. Be glad to sell it. Brand new, still sealed in box Got it with a Explorist 500 from costco and alrady had Mapsend Direct Route.
just wondering... why wouldn't you load both? I have a 500 with DirectRoute but I would still like Topo as soon as I can afford an add-on.
Here are some reasons you want both:
Direct Route:
1) you can do street routing (topo cannot)
2) info on gas stations, banks, resturants, ect.
Toto
1) really cool 3d effects on your pc
2) topo info on your Explorist
3) land and water features (waterfalls, gulleys, ect)
4) trail info and links from the pc software to Trails.com site about different trails for free.
Only bad thing with the explorist is you can't run both maps at the same time.
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Ame looking for new garman60CXS [i THINK] wood like new if possable and cost, Can any body help?
Dicky1
www.pricegrabber.com
Garmin Oregon suggestions
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Is their a site what you can make suggestions about improvements to Garmin Oregon? Or add on your approval to make changes?