Bonaro Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 I have a Garmin GPS III+ and it has lost it's basemap. It will show position and saved waypoints but on a blank screen. I have Mapsource but the maps are much too detailed (large file) for this old device. It there a way to download the original low resolution basemap of USA? Quote Link to comment
+EraSeek Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 I don't think you can ever lose a base map, but you can turn it off. Look in your map menu and see if you have it disable. Quote Link to comment
roybassist Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 It's been a really, really long time since I used my III+. Is it possible there is a setting to hide the basemap, as there is on newer units? If so, maybe it got toggled inadvertently? If not, I think I remember seeing a post once from someone who thought he had erased the base map from his unit (not a Colorado or Oregon, where I gather it is actually pretty easy to do). IIRC, when he did a hard reset, the basemap came back. Worth a try. Quote Link to comment
Bonaro Posted December 6, 2008 Author Share Posted December 6, 2008 I checked and the basemap is turned on. I toggled it a couple times but nothing came back. no luck Cant find a hard reset procedure in the manual. Quote Link to comment
+hogrod Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 I checked and the basemap is turned on. I toggled it a couple times but nothing came back. no luck Cant find a hard reset procedure in the manual. I somehow managed to loose the basemap on my 60cx a couple years ago. after messing around with resetting the unit I finally called garmin and they sent me a replacement unit. Quote Link to comment
+Wadcutter Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Here's how to do a reset: Garmin reset proceedure Quote Link to comment
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