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I think I asked this once before but never got a usable solution.

My GPS is mono. The GPS map colors in what it thinks are public lands in green. This shows up on my GPS as a dark blob, and nothing else will show there.

What I would like to be able to do is somehow turn off the public land shading as it does not do me any good and it is usually wrong as to the boundaries.

But the worst thing is that I cannot see whatever feature would otherwise be shown because there is just a green blob there on my GPS.

Any ideas?

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In Base Camp it is far superior to the older version.

Sadly, on the GPS it has an issue that I just realized yesterday. A state park I hiked in is colored in green on the map. Makes it really hard to see much of anything on my b/w GPS.

It is not useless, just very difficult to see any details. I may go back tot he older map that did not seem to color any of the parks in.

Is there some way to remove the green coloring from the maps?

My wife bought me a GPS for xmas last year. Its a garmin etrex vista H.

I have been using it on my hiking excursions since I got it but mostly just to track where I have been. You can see some of the treks on my blog, but it won't let me post a link here for some reason.

I am too cheap to buy maps so I looked for free ones and came upon this place.

A few things I have run into.

There seem to be a fair number of mistakes and or omissions in the IL topo map I downloaded. Missing water features, roads and water features shown that don't actually exist. Is this common? Am I being too picky about something that I got for free? I have noted some of the same mistakes in google maps so I am wondering if the base data that both came from are the problem.

Is there a good tutorial somewhere on using the various features. I have been able to figure out the compass. It took me a while to figure out it was off by default and had to be turned on to use. In reality it did mention this in the manual but I sort of went past that part pretty quick.

I was able to use it on one hike to convince myself I was in WI when I was not real clear just where I was.

I have been able to add waypoints on the trail but, have not figured out quite how to use them for much of anything.

One other thing I have noticed. The GPS trip computer often shows a shorter distance walked than the time involved and base camp says. Sometimes it is pretty close but other times there is a substantial difference. I have come to the conclusion that the distance basecamp calculates is closer to the truth than the trip computer. It seems odd given they start at the same point and end at the same point.