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I think there have been several bugfixes about random (or not-so-random) shutdowns. Download the latest firmware for the vista at: Garmin's site. If that doesn't fix it, contact Garmin support. I've had very good experience returning my Legend to garmin for service. -- Mitch

You can't delete them directly from EasyGPS. There are two ways to approach this. First is to avoid EasyGPS entirely and just delete them from the Meriplat using the Meriplat interface. This is probably the best solutions if you are only deleting a few, but since I don't have a Meriplat, I'll have to tell you to RTFM. You could also download the waypoints to any waypoint management tool (like EasyGPS), delete all waypoints using the GPSR interface(*), and then upload only those you want to keep. This might cause you to lose some information because this particular waypoint managemnet software doesn't handle that particular piece of information. (*) I know that on the Garmins you can delete all waypoints, or all that have a particular symbol, as well as deleting individual waypoints. -- Mitch

There is no way to delete individual maps from the Legend. When you upload new maps, it deletes all previously loaded maps, and replaces them with those that were just loaded. I consider this to be one of the few true bugs (or misfeatures) of the legend/vista. It's especially annoying when you just need to add/change one map, since reloading all 8 meg over a serial cable takes roughly 20 minutes. It would be even more annoying on a vista with 24 megs (Do you want to wait an hour for it to upload maps just becuase you forgot one small region.) While you can't delete them, you can use the map setup to "disable" them. I think that this is only really useful when you have multiple map types loaded for a given area (TOPO and Roads and Rec or Metroguide). -- Mitch

I've been trying to submit a log intermittently for the last 12 hours, but I can't get it to work. It looks like the site is having major database load issues, since the error always comes out something like: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80040E31) [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired Jeremy, have you got a handle in this? Any ETR? Could you use some help optimizing queries or coding a transparent write-through caching system? -- Mitch

quote:Originally posted by Bubblechunks: Figured-out what the problem was...I was entering the coordinates given by MapQuest instead of the ones given by Geocaching website. Needless to say, the ones from MapQuest were wrong. Well.. they weren't wrong, they were just expressed differently. The coordinates from Mapquest are in the format DDD.DDDDDD rather than DDD MM.MMM. Which is to say that Mapquest leaves the coordinate as just Degrees, whereas the site and the GPS unit (by default) express the fractional part of the degrees as minutes (take the part of the degrees less than 1 and multiply by 60 to get minutes. i.e. if it's 45.34753 degrees, take the 0.34753 and multiply by 60 to get 45 degrees 20.6718 Minutes, you'd need to round off to 45 20.672 to put it in the GPSr). You need to convert both the latitude and longitude. Also... most places express western longitudes (and southern latitudes) as negative, so you have to pay attention to the sign.. though most people know which hemisphere they're going to already. This can be useful if you want to take the lat/long put out by MapBlast/MapQuest and put it into your GPSr... say you type in an address, and want to put it in as a waypoint so you can navigate to it. -- Mitch

quote:Originally posted by Bubblechunks: Figured-out what the problem was...I was entering the coordinates given by MapQuest instead of the ones given by Geocaching website. Needless to say, the ones from MapQuest were wrong. Well.. they weren't wrong, they were just expressed differently. The coordinates from Mapquest are in the format DDD.DDDDDD rather than DDD MM.MMM. Which is to say that Mapquest leaves the coordinate as just Degrees, whereas the site and the GPS unit (by default) express the fractional part of the degrees as minutes (take the part of the degrees less than 1 and multiply by 60 to get minutes. i.e. if it's 45.34753 degrees, take the 0.34753 and multiply by 60 to get 45 degrees 20.6718 Minutes, you'd need to round off to 45 20.672 to put it in the GPSr). You need to convert both the latitude and longitude. Also... most places express western longitudes (and southern latitudes) as negative, so you have to pay attention to the sign.. though most people know which hemisphere they're going to already. This can be useful if you want to take the lat/long put out by MapBlast/MapQuest and put it into your GPSr... say you type in an address, and want to put it in as a waypoint so you can navigate to it. -- Mitch