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Mapsource only allows one download a time

I may be out of line here, but I think you are misunderstanding what the software does, so I'm going to clarify a couple of points. 1) GSAK (or anything else) is not going to give you any additional caches. It's simply a way to manage caches, or waypoints. In order to download multiple caches, there are several ways, but the easiest is to become a premium member and then you'll be able to run "pocket queries" which will send you up to 500 caches in one file to your email account. What you would then do is open up that file in GSAK (or mapsource or EasyGPS) and be able to send all of them at once over to the GPS. Does that help at all? yea it does, all i want is something to download multiple waypoints/caches at one time and to maybe read the clues that go with it

Ther is no "autorouting button" per se. When you do a Find > Go To, it should give you the option "Follow Road" (autoroute) or "Off Road". If you choose "Off Road", then it'll simply draw a straight line between you and your destination (no turn-by-turn directions). But if you choose "Follow Road", and you DON'T have the route calculation data loaded with your maps, then it will try to route you using the basemap giving results as you described above. No I meant the auto route box when you downloaded the maps

All I want is something to download the caches/waypoints with the clues/notes that came with it. I also want to be able to download many at one time. I can only get mapsource to do one at a time. Also when using GASK does it give you caches that are not listed on geocaching? Thanks

What "The Leprechauns" said.... EasyGPS has everything a beginner needs and if you take simple approach to geocaching, it may be all you ever need.... And its truly free... Dale With Easygps, can you download the caches to gps or do you need additional software? Also, does it download the thr notes about the cache. Thanks

Can someone tell me why would you need programs like gpsbabel or gsak to just simply download your waypoints to your GPS when mapsource does just that? I dont use a pda of anysort and once I find a cache I have no need to log or keep my waypoint for caches.

Hey, am I right to to believe if you didn't clik the (Auto Route) button that the GPS would not give you turn by turn directions? If I remember correctly before N8 was loaded a few weeks after purchasing the GPS I didn't get turn by turn directions

Kind of like everything else. You get what you pay for. Three hundred dollars will pretty much buy you the same features down the line. You will be happy with whatever you buy. I imagine the fatures on one will be easier to use then on the other, but you will never know that unless you have more then one in your hand to compare and play with.

I don't thnk it would route at all if i didnt have the box checked when downloaded. Also it is simple to tell whether you have the right map loaded just by looking at the map screen, yes? I just think its a fluke, can't be perfect I guess

A few weeks back I was complaining that cn8 creates longer routes in my city that make no sense. Someone said it can't replace your own knowledge of getting for point A to point B on a familar route. That it will get you there if you are lost. So I accepted that and moved on. Well I find this isn't true either. CN8 will give me a route to my local interstate where there is no exit. It puts me under the overpass. This is not good if someone doesn't know the area. What if it was a bad part of town that I shouldn't be in with my family? Yes I have tried faster and better routes to no avail. This is anacceptable for something that cost as much as CN8

It can be used with two gps's for the price you paid for cn8. I believe it says in the papers with cn8.

Garmin could of put a toggle switch or even a small wheel as a rocker instead of what they have now. Switch is too flushed to unit itself and too close to other buttons. What a pain putting in several charachters. Would of also been sufficient to have been able to select your choices on the screen by pressing the rocker and not have to use a entirely different button. Maybe next time Garmin. Also why isn't there a place on this forum for specific units or at least the manufactures.

Reading the manual for the 60CSx, seems like this is the default method and is used unless the unit is manually calibrated. If you manually calibrate the unit, how long does the calibration last, til the unit is turned off? Also, since most of the time I would use the altimeter is while towing to determine the road grade, would using the elevation signs at overlook be better for manually calibrating or just leaving at the default? On the 76, it has 1011mb for abient pressure as well as barometric pressure. And when I try to change pressure to local readings, like 29.50 etc, it doesn't stick and goes back to whats being read?????? Peter, I changed the measurements as you suggested and that fixed the problem, thanks a bunch.

Reading the manual for the 60CSx, seems like this is the default method and is used unless the unit is manually calibrated. If you manually calibrate the unit, how long does the calibration last, til the unit is turned off? Also, since most of the time I would use the altimeter is while towing to determine the road grade, would using the elevation signs at overlook be better for manually calibrating or just leaving at the default? On the 76, it has 1011mb for abient pressure as well as barometric pressure. And when I try to change pressure to local readings, like 29.50 etc, it doesn't stick and goes back to whats being read??????

Well, a sky diver would! Interestingly, my Vista comes with a Jumpmaster program used by skydivers where knowing your altitude using the barometric readings is really important. The satellite data would not be accurate or reliable enough. I suppose hang gliders, soarers and others like them would find the barometric altimeter a real plus as well. If you're tracking your elevation to report tracking later on for hiking or trail info to share with others, the barometric readings continue even during the times you lose the sats. It's more accurate as well. Also, people have mentioned that using it for weather prediction is handy too. Like bells and whistles on any kind of equipment, no one uses them all. But if you have a use for it, or might in the future, it's there. On my map76scx, why when i try to calibrate the barometer by local weather settings, say 28.89mb, when I clik ok it goes to say 1013.1 mb, same as abient pressure ?

MapSource is a waypoint management application, and provides the PC with the user interface for the Garmin Map products. If you didn't buy additional maps, then you only have the base map that comes with the GPS. If you do buy additional maps, you would use MapSource to upload them to your GPS. so do i understand the cd that came with it is so the other programs i obtain needs the map source to load into my gps? I have access to mapquest4 (which is quite old now) for information only could i load that program into this unit, and secondly I plan to do some geo chache close to home here and I travel on a lake here thats well known and large, what are the possibilities of finding aa program on line i could download to serve my needs or do i just need to buy one thanks I second the opinion. You need to read up on the product and at least attempt to to learn and have some sort of understanding of what your are doing before you plaster this forum with redundant questions

No you don't. As Blue Deuce mentioned, all you have to do is press "find" and select address. Of course you have to have City Navigator or City Select loaded to your unit. Moving to appropriate forum whats the reason to move to another forumisnt this for software?

I went out the other day and after about 11 hours of caching we only could find 11. I can see maybe 15 but how in the world did you get 144? No life maybe.JK, there's no way, even if they are all placed say in the same park etc.

To anyone interested, Nav8 is 1540.5 MB, excluding Alaska

How did you get a free replacement after a truck running over it?

The USB cable came with my 76scx. Likwe to know myself how to add cordinates other then by hand

That is true, I guess if you had no idea how to get to point A from point B it serves it's purpose so I shouldn't complain, hate to complain anyway..........Pretty new at all this still trying to figure all the bells and whistles..........

I hope I never have to trust a gps to route me somewhere I have never been before. Although I have only attempted a few routes by addresses I am dissapointed in cordinates given by my gpsmap76csx/navigator v8. When given routes I drive often the gps has me taking streets and exits that would be ridiculous to take. Yes I have tried the different options to no avail like quickest and shortest.

Thanks.

I don't think it really matters which WAAS satellite you are seeing or if you are even receiving WAAS corrections. WAAS on my eXplorist 400 doesn't seem to improve my accuracy at all, just stability. I have no trouble finding caches without WAAS. I don't care either way. If my GPSr is getting corrections, all the better. If not, no biggie. If you are seeing plenty of regular GPS satellites you will be just fine. Check out this reply from Peter in another topic about Garmin's satellite numbers versus Magellan's Ws. Got to agree with you. I have the 76csx and always have at least 5 birds showing Ds. Don't see the reason of obsessing over connecting to 51. Sometimes mine does sometimes it doesn't. I don't need pinpoint accurcy. 15ft of accuracy seems good enough for me. I'm not knocking anyone here btw, just trying to understand it.