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Thanks very Boyd! your suggestions worked.

The easiest way to tell what you have loaded on the GPS is to simply zoom way out where you see a bigger view. The maps you loaded should be superimposed on the basemap which will show state boundaries. In the future, I believe you can save a .gdb file in Mapsource while you still have the desired map tiles selected after transferring them to the GPS.

Your ability to search the map is governed by how it was compiled and what POI's were included by the author. The info you are looking for may not be part of this map. You should be able to search for POI's using Garmin's own 100k Topo maps, or at least I am able to.

You may be able to download POI's for your desired area and install them with POI loader as well (or create waypoints from them). A little searching with Google should help you find them.

Thanks for a great forum and services.

The tutorials are very helpful in addressing a lot of questions about the garmin gpsr.

I have a slightly different question, I downloaded the california topo, installed parts of it on my 60csx, only have a .5 gb card there currently. How does one find whether a specific area has been copied over?

Also, using National Geographic topo software on the computer, one can easily find the area, or a peak by searching by name, how does one find that on the downloaded calif topo software from this site.

on my gpsr I did it by using the garmin 100k topo software to navigate to my location (no search there, but has annotations and peaks listed) and then hiding that map and switching to the calif. topo software. Any better way?

thanks