canuck travellers Posted April 17, 2007 Posted April 17, 2007 (edited) Hi everyone! Just a quick question for you folks with the eTrex Legend. My friend has one & I tried to give him a hand in loading a map from US TOPO, after selecting the map segment & attempting to load this into his GPS it gave me a warning that said something like "Warning all Garmin preloaded data will be erased, do you want to continue?" I did not continue as I was worried that maybe the base map might be erased from the unit, leaving us in a real predicament. If only the waypoints that Garmin had loaded are removed that will be ok, but I don't know if removing or over writing the base map would be a good idea. Can anyone tell me or advise what will happen if I do load a TOPO segment into this Garmin eTrex Legend? Really appreciate any help from you guys & girls. ....Ernie Edited April 17, 2007 by canuck travellers Quote
+Mach2003 Posted April 17, 2007 Posted April 17, 2007 The base map will NOT be removed. The maps you load are loaded onto SD, only the items that Garmin installed to the SD will be removed. My eTrex did not actually have anything important in the factory SD, go ahead and replace it. Quote
+JanniCash Posted April 18, 2007 Posted April 18, 2007 The base map will NOT be removed. The maps you load are loaded onto SD, only the items that Garmin installed to the SD will be removed. My eTrex did not actually have anything important in the factory SD, go ahead and replace it. The eTrex Legend (blue) does not have any memory card, but just the built in 8 MB. If (my) memory serves, the standard loaded Marine POI data will be lost if you load any map at all on that unit. There is a download on the Garmin website that allows you to restore that Marine POI data. So it is safe to go ahead and replace it with TOPO data. Jan Quote
+Maingray Posted April 18, 2007 Posted April 18, 2007 The base map will NOT be removed. The maps you load are loaded onto SD, only the items that Garmin installed to the SD will be removed. My eTrex did not actually have anything important in the factory SD, go ahead and replace it. For clarity, the last poster was correct in that the basemap will not get deleted...but when he says SD he meant SD card which the plain legend does not have so it does not apply here. Quote
+JanniCash Posted April 18, 2007 Posted April 18, 2007 The base map will NOT be removed. The maps you load are loaded onto SD, only the items that Garmin installed to the SD will be removed. My eTrex did not actually have anything important in the factory SD, go ahead and replace it. For clarity, the last poster was correct in that the basemap will not get deleted...but when he says SD he meant SD card which the plain legend does not have so it does not apply here. Right, I think there actually isn't any way to erase or overwrite the basemap on the Legend. I was talking about the factory preloaded data in the 8MB. Now the Marine POI recovery thing seems to have vanished from the Garmin site. I do have a Garmin_Marine.exe in my old "Garmin Legend" download folder. If I run that it wants to install "Marine POI Database Recovery", so I wasn't dreaming about that one either - just that I can't find it on the Garmin site any more. canuck travellers, let me know if you want to have a copy of that installer just in case. Jan Quote
canuck travellers Posted April 18, 2007 Author Posted April 18, 2007 (edited) The base map will NOT be removed. The maps you load are loaded onto SD, only the items that Garmin installed to the SD will be removed. My eTrex did not actually have anything important in the factory SD, go ahead and replace it. For clarity, the last poster was correct in that the basemap will not get deleted...but when he says SD he meant SD card which the plain legend does not have so it does not apply here. Right, I think there actually isn't any way to erase or overwrite the basemap on the Legend. I was talking about the factory preloaded data in the 8MB. Now the Marine POI recovery thing seems to have vanished from the Garmin site. I do have a Garmin_Marine.exe in my old "Garmin Legend" download folder. If I run that it wants to install "Marine POI Database Recovery", so I wasn't dreaming about that one either - just that I can't find it on the Garmin site any more. canuck travellers, let me know if you want to have a copy of that installer just in case. Jan Thanks everyone for the response, I will try the download & may take JanniCash up on your offer. .....Ernie Edited April 18, 2007 by canuck travellers Quote
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