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i was wondering if you could combine two maps. i have the georgia topo loaded to mapsource and handheld. the ga. dnr has infra red maps of wildlife management areas with the boundries outlined. is there any way i can combine the two maps on mapsource? can i copy the boundary lines from the dnr provided maps to map on mapsource? any answers would be greatly appreciated. thanks ahead of time.

i downloaded the Ga. topo to my vista this weekend. went hunting on sunday and tried out the handheld w/ the topo map. the area i hunted, which is pretty remote, was very accurately detailed. beyond my expectations. now i have to get confident with my unit in the thick woods, in the dark. i need to activate the compass. how thick of cover can you actually be in and still receive a good signal with a vista hcx? thanks

contacted garmin today. two hours later, no mapsource. it is downloading onto my computer, but i am unable to launch it. tried giving remote access to garmin tech. couldnt achieve that either. i am going to load mapsource to another computer and try. thanks for all the help i received here .

it seems the program is loading onto my computer. when i go to add remove programs, it there. i just cant open it. i removed the bundle and reinstalled with the trips waypoint manager disk that came with my unit. once loaded, it asks if i wanted to launch mapsource. i clicked yes. window appeared unable to open. please reinstall. i then downloaded update. update went through process and it looked like mapsource was going to open, but it didnt. said error ocurred and to re install. i guess ill have to call garmin in the morning. oh wait, they are probably closed tommorrow. then tuesday, unless someone else has any ideas.

now my computer is saying it there is a problem with waypoint manager. it says to re install. tried reinstalling four times. no luck. any opinions?

okay, here i go. i have downloaded the georgia topo to my computer. there is an icon on my desktop. when i click on the icon, it prompts me to install into a folder. i am a little confused. where should i install it? i think i need to install it to mapsource, right? thanks.

i am coastal s.e. georgia. i guess i load the s.e. topo if it has a little more detail. not much change in elevation here or other places i hunt in georgia.

thanks for the reply. i started to download the s.e. topo. it was going to take an hour to finish. i started thinking, do i really need all the other states besides georgia? NO. i have already downloaded georgia, now i have to figure out how to convert to my gps.

i live in georgia and will need topo on gps for hunting in georgia. which is more detailed, the georgia topo or the s.e. topo? thanks

i have about 15 years using a handheld. i used them for offshore fishing. pretty basic. enter lat/lon. and run to waypoint. this model is a little more complex. i will be using this unit for navigating in the woods.

i have put batteries in the machine and installed a 4 gb sd card. the unit came with a trip and waypoint manager disk. Do i need ti install this to load topo maps from this site? does anyone know if the vista hcx has mapsource already installed? thanks.

excellent! so, i just download s.e. map to my computer and then to the sd card?

i purchased a garmin vista hcx about 4 months ago. i have not even took it out of the box. i will be using it mostly for hunting purposes. our season does start until mid oct. i have had a ton of other stuff going on since i purchased it, so no time to fool with it. i have owned other handheld gps models for offshore fishing since the early '90s. i feel that i am not a gps neewbie, but green to downloading maps to handheld.

i am contemplating on buying a garmin topo 2008 dvd. is this the best topo map for this hendheld? i went to the garmin site and previewed my area and it did'nt seem too detailed. i see that there is a feller that created a s.e. topo map that is free to download from this site. can i just load this instead of buying the garmin topo map? has anyone used the s.e. download from this site? any info would be greatly appreciated.