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Foresterscott,

Wow.  That is an indepth explaination.  I only wish i knew how to do it.  I am new to this gps thing.  I did do the route thing with mapsource and will see how that fares.  I think i remember where all the corners are so it is just finding them.  Might have my daughter get her cheap metal detector out and see if she can locate them.  Then I can project the points a little more accurately.

Oregon 450 idea.

Alright i know this is not as accurate as a survey but I would like to make a map with some lines just of my moms property so I can tell if a few trees are on her property or the neighbors.  The neighbors are all cool and probably wont mind if i tap them for maple syrup or not.  I posted this on another forum and didnt get very far.  Can i make a CAD drawing and inport that to my gps with some sort of software or is there some other way to do it. 

I did project a point to her corners but when I was walking if i went around a tree i would have to watch the pointer to get back on track.  Looking for something easier that I can see what side of the line I'm on.  If the trees im looking at have a 10 foot accuracy on the gps i know im good from where i project the line.  also if i am off by more than that I can just tag the tree and ask the neighbor.

Just looking to be close and an easy way to do it. 

Just added a little more info to the list. Added how many segments each map has.

michigan topos 14 seconds 146,536 kb 130 segments
other michigan topo 14 seconds 59,299 kb 44 segments
US states and counties 14 seconds 1,918 kb 2 segments
US P North Central 25 seconds 335,832 kb 330 segments
US P North East 32 seconds 282,872 kb 268 segments
NE Topo Part 1 46 seconds 642,656 kb 463 segments

Total 1,469,113 kb 1237 segments

I think i may start a new thread here and in gs just talking about this and see what others can paste about the amount of info they are loading and what kind of times they are seeing.

maps4gps,

I can figure that out by just selecting the number in each again.  Is there a limit as to how many you can put on one map or a total number allowed in the unit?  Somewhere seems to me i read a maximum you can put in.

Boyd,

i actually did test with the blank card in and it was the same as no card.  How can i tell how many map sectors i have loaded?

thanks,

Last night I did some testing with loading the maps. Below is a spreadsheet of what I did and the boot times there after. I did shut it down and turn it on 3-4 times after loading each map to make sure everything was good before i took these times. Does this sound like about what everyone else is getting. Do you think if I broke some of these larger files into a few smaller ones but still have all that info on there that it would speed things up? Maybe me being a newbe I am loading to big of files on there at once.


                                        start up time          file size
no card                             12 seconds
michigan topos                  14 seconds           146,536 kb
other michigan topo           14 seconds             59,299 kb
US states and counties       14 seconds              1,918 kb
US P North Central             25 seconds           335,832 kb
US P North East                 32 seconds            282,872 kb
NE Topo Part 1                  46 seconds            642,656 kb
Total 1,469,113 kb


Disk reads 1.40gb used 1,504,444,416 bytes

2.28gb free 2,452,291,584 bytes

3.68 gb capacity 3,956,801,536 bytes

Thanks again.

Boyd,

Thanks for the input.  Are you on every forum for gps there is?  I see your screen name everywhere. 

I checked at lunch and my card is a 4gb and class 4.  I wonder if different manufacturers are different speeds?

Thanks,
Rob

I can wait that long.  It just seems others are getting their units to start up a lot quicker than that with a lot more loaded on the cards.

I will see what speed my card is and maybe get a quicker card.

I did a little test and without card in it is 12 seconds and 47 seconds with 4gb card with about 1.4gb worth of maps loaded on it. Does that seem too long?

jbensman, you are correct in my where to folder.  I do only have one map active at a time unless it is an overlayment map. 

My only slow down is when i turn it on it take 45 seconds to a minute to get to the home page.

Thanks,

I am torn on which maps i want.  i like the 10 foot contour map but sometimes i think it makes it a touch cobbled.  Other times i think it is perfect and i am sure there is never a happy medium.  I think that having the duplicates may be slowing the unit down some though.  What do you think?  If so I may dump the others for MI and just use your Mi topos which are awesome.

Thanks for the quick reply. 

Anything specific which gives you this impression?
BY my house i see 3 times as many contour lines in the Michigan Topo vs. the NE Topo maps.  Thats why I asked.  Love the feedback you have given me.  Its been a long time since I have my serveying class in college and i guess i dont remember as much as i thought i did.

Also the reason i asked was I have both on my Oregon 450 and I may dump one of them as I am getting in a lot of cases 3 duplicate POI in that folder and my start up time is around 45 seconds to a minute and think it may be because I have duplicate data there.

I think i would like to have just a road map loaded on my gps and then a topo overlay so i can view just roads if i want.  Is there a way to get ride of the duplicate POI if i do that?

 

Can anyone tell me about the Michigan topo map that is 24k scale and the Northeast Topo United States Part 1 of 3 Map?  I think that maybe the NE Topo is 100K scale?  Can anyone confirm for me as I have both loaded onto my Oregon and may want to remove one of them.