I realized this morning that I had deleted the Garmin track from my computer but probably still had it on the GPS itself. I checked and there it was.
Attached is Spider Plot 2.jpg which shows both the Triton and Dakota spider plot for roughly the same time period (155 points for the Triton, 163 for the Dakota. Clearly the Dakota is superior. It probably makes little practical difference. The Triton will overstate walking time, distance and elevation gain and understate waiting time by some small amount. Practically this makes little difference.
Some history, my first GPS was a Magellan 315 about 15 years ago, along the way I then upgraded to a SPORTRAK Map and then to a SPORTRAK Color. When the Triton series came out, I considered upgrading. Luckily, I did not and I avoided all the initial Triton problems. About 2 or 3 years ago when I heard the it was easy to install custom raster maps on the Triton, I bought the 500. I then built custom maps for hiking trails in the NYC metropolitan area. I was happy with them and impressed other hikers with them. I then bought a Triton 1100 primarily to run OZICE on it. Frankly, i was not happy with OZICE. I then used both. I did prefer the 500 over the 1100 because I did not like the hybrid touch/button system. By this time, Garmin came out with their custom map system. I then made kmz files for Garmin units. Several people bought new Garmin units and loaded my files.Not owning a Garmin, I was unable to help them with their problems. I finally picked up the Dakota on e-bay and sold my Triton 1100.
My impressions of the Dakota are positive. it is much more intuitive than the Triton line. The 100% touch screen system makes more sense than the hybrid Triton system. However, the Magellan system for custom maps beats the Garmin system hands down. As you know there is no limit on custom maps for the Magellan line and individual maps can be enabled separately. If or when Garmin will do something like that is questionable.
Bob M