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Thanks.  It looks like sooner or later I'll cave and pay Garmin for their data.  I knew it was coming, but it still feels like they're sticking it to me when they show all this capability in the ads that requires $200 more to realize (topo plus street routing).

My Legend has a special menu item for geocaching, but heck if I can figure out how to add a new geocache location.  Any hints?  I see no way to enter them manually, and mapsource doesn't seem to have a way to download them.  The help on Garmin's site is no help...  My only guess is that the feature is useless unless you pay money to geocache.com to download them direct to the unit?  Otherwise you just enter them as normal waypoints?  Thanks.

Thanks for the help.  I was able to enable and disable the whole ibycusUSA.  I never would have figured that out myself.  Is it possible to have multiple mapsets on a card from mapsource, for example a topo and a street map?  It looks like mapsource wants to wipe the card each time it writes.

By the way, should the Legend be able to locate street addresses with the right mapset loaded?  I know it's not marketed as a car navigator, but it would still come in handy sometimes.  With the ibycus USA street map, I haven't found a way to go more detailed than city level.

Just got a Legend HCx.  I have a 4GB memory card to go with it.  I'm disbelieving how painful it seems to be to find good maps and manage them.  With a 4 gig card, my dream was that I'd just get topos for practically the whole US, or at least the southwest and just be done with it.  I got the Arizona topo from this site and loaded it onto the card, it's working, but I'm finding that the topos are nearly worthless for road navigation since the names of streets and cities don't clearly show up.  So I figured I'd just go back to the cheesy basemap for driving, but unless I'm misunderstanding, I need to uncheck about 30 individual tiles to make the topo go away?  Is that right?

If I paid Garmin for the topo and streets maps, would I have to micromanage them at the tile level like this, or could I just go between topo and street mode?  I'm not a hiker, I wanted to use this thing for driving on Jeep trails, and you can cover a fair bit of ground.  Thanks for any help.