Installing maps on Oregon 450

[+D'cacher]

Recently grabbed an Oregon 450. Followed the frequent recommendation of, gpsfiledepot. I have a free topo of my area, on a 4 gig sdhc card. Can't figure out how to make the map data from the sd card come up on the map display. Looked in...setup/maps/map info, select maps. Only show the pre-loaded base map. Any and all help is much appreciated, by this mapping and paperless rookie.

[savant9]

How did you put the map on the SD card? Is it in .img format and in the /Garmin/ directory?

[+D'cacher]

It shows in the sd card as a folder named M77_or. Open it up and all data is in .img format

[savant9]

For the gps to see it, the .img file needs to be in the garmin folder, not in a subfolder.

[snowfleurys]

In a PC environment, you need to have MapSource or BaseCamp installed on your computer.

You then run the .exe file you downloaded from gpsfiledepot; this will make the necessary changes to the computer's registery so MS?BC can 'see' the mapset.

Then in MS/BC select some or all of the quads/tiles and send them to the GPSr, or micro memory card in a card reader.

See the tutorial: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-...s-in-mapsource/

[+D'cacher]

Thank you both for the help, and the link. I'll try running it in mapsource.

[+D'cacher]

That did the trick, thanks for the instructions. Topo now loaded on the Oregon 450.