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#46
GPSr Units / Re: New 60csx ... SD cards
September 07, 2010, 11:06:32 AM
Thanks Dan.

It's kind of strange that if you push the Find button and select the Waypoints icon and ALL WP's and CG's crammed together in the list.  You select the Geocaches icon and only see GC's, no regular WP's.  It'd be nice if the Waypoints list could have only WP's in  it.

I'll call Garmin and tell them I'll get mad if they don't fix this just  for me. :)
#47
GPSr Units / Re: New 60csx ... SD cards
September 02, 2010, 11:47:17 AM
Just a little follow up....

Got most of my home state area loaded onto the 60csx's card.  Not only your topo stuff, but some open street maps (to see how it autoroutes).   I thought there'd be some kind of conflict, but it runs both map types together fine. I even found a place in the menu where you can turn off each mapset (OSM or topo) off, in bulk.  That's kind of handy.

So far, I really like this unit.  Screen is nice and larger than what I'm used to. Eyes aint what they used to be.  Really accurate in my testing, so far. At least on WP's I've set.  When it says it's within 8', it has been 90% of the time. Battery life is excellent (over 21 hours on first set).   Only drawback is it doesn't allow paperless geocaching. 

One question to cachers who use this unit.....this thing has separate menu icons for "Waypoints" and "Geocaches"....is there a way to eliminate having all the geocaches stored in the WP icon section?  You can sort them by symbol, but it would be nice to have only WP's in the WP file and GC's in the GC file.  Thanks.
#48
GPSr Units / Re: New 60csx ... SD cards
August 29, 2010, 11:21:25 PM
 Oz (and moderators)

The little metal clip.....I thought that the card was slid into it.  Didn't realize that is just the clamp that holds the card down.  Duh.....I'm used to another brand that works like that.

Mods, remove if you care to.  Sorry.
#49
GPSr Units / New 60csx ... SD cards
August 29, 2010, 08:31:21 PM
Well, suddenly I'm the owner of two Garmin handhelds.   A used Legend for cheap three weeks ago and now a pristine 60csx, also for a good price. 

The shiny new looking 60csx only came with a protective cover. No other accessories.  There was no SD memory card installed the unit either..  The Garmin online PDF manual says that a "micro SD" is needed. Got one of those, so I'm good to go, i thought..... But when I opened the unit up the little SD slot is actually a larger mini slot, not a micro slot.  As my luck goes.....nobody in town has mini cards.....or  adaptors....anyway I'm sidetracking....

What I need to know is does the 60csx accept SD and SDHC type cards or just SD types?  These are older units, but I hope SDHC will work.
#50
Well, I'm confused....I know I loaded the SEtopo from this site....I've seen your name on quite a few of the southern US maps and assumed it was made by you. I recall the name John Mckenzie at boot up.  Guess that's not you.

Anyhoo, thanks to you and whoever did make that regional map.
#51
Maps4gps,

I'm told by my computer geek friend that my old PC is in dire need of RAM and a new video card upgrade.  Maybe that is why my loads are so slow?  Regardless, it works.

BTW, you are the creator of the SETOPO that I've been using.  Outstanding work and thanks for that.
#52
A little update after some use.....

With the help from some at Groundspeak I've since been able to upgrade the FW from 3.60 to 3.90.  Had to do a secret menu reset to get WAAS kicking again. 

Above, Boyd said: "More of a problem will be the old-design receiver which is not very sensitive and easily loses a satellite fix under tree cover"

This was an issue before the 3.90 FW update.  We have some purty thick tree cover here in central Bama.  When I was running the old FW the Legend would lose itself just walking to the mailbox (my driveway is a tunnel through the trees).  Walked down there again with the new FW (after WAAS kicked in) and lowest accuracy was 36 feet!  That ain't too shabby for an old clunker.

Also noticed that once a new map is "digested" by the unit that redraws are almost as fast as when just running the basemap.  Maps look great and seem very accurate so far.

Also, map changes on the serial cord are slow, but not that bad.  Usually about 15 minutes to push around 5-6mb. All in all I would buy another of these little units if the price was right.  Makes a good starter unit.
#53
JTK,

Thanks for that link to recover the marine stuff. 

Boyd, (and all)

I got to goof around with it today.  Found out that the basemap does stay put.  The only thing I lost in a map transfer was the marine data.   That's OK though (prolly will never need that data and can reload from JTk's link if I do.)

I was able to send two map sections.  About 5Mb's worth.  Looks amazingly well on the monochrome screen.  The only drawback was that it appears to slow the processor a good bit at start up. Slow menues and such.  Seems to plane off after it's been on at least 15 minutes and works almost as fast as originally after that lag time..  Worked great after I loaded about 50 cache WP's.  Even used it to find two this afternoon.

I'm going to give it to my daughter after I load MS and the topo files on  her laptop.  She can shift maps as need be.
Thanks to all for the link's/advice.
#54
Thank you guys for all the help.  I don't have time to wade through it riight now, but I'll jump on it tonight. 

So far (despite it's shortcomings) I really like this little Legend.  Can't wait to see what I can make it do.
#55
That was quick.  

Ingrid,  

As far as I know there is only a basemap.  I found a "map setup" page and it lists it as "Americas Marine Point Basemap 2001".  There is a checkmark box.....guessing I can turn it off?

I don't know much about Garmins and I don't know why this Legend would come stock with something called a "marine point" basemap.  Just for fun (after seeing the "marine" part, I paged down to the Gulf Coast region and found that there are signal waypoints in the water.  Maybe beacons or something

The road part of the basemap is really inaccurate I've noticed. Far worse than the Magellans and Delormes I've used.

What I'd like to do is transfer a tad bit of a topo detail map, just to see if works in the woods around here.  I just don't want to fry the innards or programming in doing this.  It's a  been good little unit in my testing so far and I'm not wanting to booger it up.
#56
I looked in the Tutorial on sending a map to a Garmin, but didn't see reference to this warning I get in Mapsource, so I'm asking here.....

Got my first Garmin handheld.  An old Legend (8mb of memory).  Just got a new cable put together and it is able to talk to Mapsource.  I even updated the FW from 3.60 to 3.90 and have been playing with transferring WP's.  All is good except.....

There's only 8MB of internal memory, so I wanted to see what a small chunk (2.64 mb) of your detailed SETopo map would look like on the legend.  The basemap is all that is on the unit now. 

I went through the steps to transfer that section of the SETopo to the GPS, but got a warning.  Something about "You are about to erase Garmin Preprogrammed data (if you transfer)...but that you could go to Garmin (a link included) to recover this data later", etc.

Is this saying that I will erase a part (or all of the ) of the stock basemap or something?
I'd really like to see what a topo map would look like on the legend, but I don't want to damage the basemap in doing so.  Thanks.
#57
Well, finally got the time to reload SETopo into Mapsource.  Canned the old copy.  Guess what? Now I have WyoTopo and SEtopo on the SD card!   Looks like Mapsource combined both map sets into one "Gmapsupp" file on the SD and both work great.

Even though I had just cut-m-pasted that old copy of SETopo, there must have been something wrong.  I'll make sure to strictly use Mapsource for transfers from now on.

Just wanted to post a follow up and say thanks you all.
#58
Seldom,

Well, got some time to try and reload SEtopo again tonight, but for some reason it said the download would take about three hours.  We had some mayor lightning today.  It might have boogered up my ISP.  I'll try that download when my speeds are back up. 
#59
Boyd,

I'm not that computer savvy.  When I first got a Nuvi my attempts at loading a .gpx into it's internal memory bricked it.  So I like to load stuff on the SD card, just to be safe.  Learning this puter stuff (with me) is like handing a loaded pistol to a chimp. :)

I have a small SD card I may just dedicate to the Wyoming map.
#60
Seldom, Boyd,

This is kind of crazy.  (Nuvi 200, BTW)  If I name either map ( the Wyoming or SE map) just "gmapsupp" I can see them in the Nuvi.  Also, both are .img files.  If I change one of the names just a tad the 200 will not recognize it.   The WyTopo named "gmapsupp" works.  The Wytopo named "gmapsupp 2" will not.  Same with the SEtopo.

I was going to try Seldom's idea, but I ran into another problem. :)

The copy of SEtopo was loaded to this card last year.  Since that time I had a virus wipe this computer out.  The little copy of SETopo was safe in the Nuvi's SD during that event.   Now I tried to import it as a tile into Mapsource and it will not allow the import.  A pop-up comes up saying that there is a problem.  The WyoTopo installed fine as a tile into Mapsource.

I may have to scrap this old copy of SEtopo and start with a fresh download to see if it will "tile up" in Mapsource..  I'll try that next. 

Thanks for the replies.