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Got the 550 because I own 2008 Topos. The combination of 2008 Topos and Birdeyes does not give me address Routing. Looking to 24k Topo's and Birdseye to give me that. Am I figuring it right?

Another concern is the dark shading of 24k topo's. How bad does that mess up Birdseye images?

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Called Garmin, Birdseye is on top of 24k topo's, so streets should show through without degrading Birdseye... maybe. Also 24k allows address routing. The street maps are 2009 City navigator.

Vern

Boyd, don't know if I should be starting a new thread on each of these off topic questions. Let me know.

Now this is interesting, or I'm reading this wrong. With nRoute I could plug my Dell mini 9 into Oregon 550 and see the screen on the PC?

Edit: On the interface, I have Garmin Serial, NMEA In/Out, Text Out, RTCM, Garmin Spanner? Don't see Interface IIRC.

Use only the GPS signal, got it. Well the 24k Topo can ce used, Wonder if it will recognize Birdseye?

Vern

Thanks Boyd, I just ordered the 4 state 24k Garmin Topo on Amazon. That way I'll have address routing 2009 streets, plus a good Topo. The Blm stuff costs $20 bucks a year, so I guess not a big deal.
Birdseyes:
I have an area of 89 mils by 89 mile in Birdseye. It's a little less than 12gb. I found you can que up multiple Birdseye downloads. Even thou it's slow you can have a 24 hour download. 11gb took 4 days, about 96 hours.

Would like to run my solid state 9" Dell laptop. Would Garmin Mobile PC run on it? I'm running XP now on that PC.

Vern

  Boyd thanks good info. I've got a 7200 with life city maps and just started loading POI's, cool stuff. And yes I got that, Polygons are hidden. That'okay I guess, that means Blm land is not bordered I think your trying to say.

I know probably newbe question but how many layers of maps can an Oregon 550 have? Would it be a possiblity for Birdseye, 24k Topo and say BLM Polygons? By the way I"m running 10,000 square miles of Birdseye on a 16 gb sd card. Takes about 45 sec to turn on and 1 sec delay on map dragging refresh, not bad.

So I guess I'm trying to have the best of both worlds. I've already turned off the shading that comes from the GPS, that helped. Arizona, where I'm at, has only 27 percent privately owned land. So that makes a lot of off roading, if you can stand the heat.

  Got the 550 because I own 2008 Topos. The combination of 2008 Topos and Birdeyes does not give me address Routing. Looking to 24k Topo's and Birdseye to give me that. Am I figuring it right?

Another concern is the dark shading of 24k topo's. How bad does that mess up Birdseye images?

Edit:
Called Garmin, Birdseye is on top of 24k topo's, so streets should show through without degrading Birdseye... maybe. Also 24k allows address routing. The street maps are 2009 City navigator.

Vern