Garmin announces "BirdsEye" aerial imagery subscription

[Boyd]

I saw that too. I have the load to GPS box un-checked when I start the download, but BaseCamp still says that I have 690MB available, which is the free space in internal memory. Don't know whether that affects anything or not.

The 30MB download I started over two hours ago seems to have just quit at 50%, I don't see any movement from the progress bar. I suppose it could be related to the fact that I haven't subscribed yet. Or maybe just overloaded servers. But downloading small areas (less than 1MB) has been pretty speedy.

[edit] Now I see that it says "BirdsEye Imagery - Trial" when I click, so it is probably limiting what I can do since I'm not a subscriber.

[edit again] Actually it says "BirdsEye Imagery - Trail" since I was pointing to a trail on the vector map. Duh...  

[Jimbob]

Garmin says that data can be loaded  to SD cards.
trial-trail- Thats the kind of thing I would do. DUH

[Boyd]

I was finally able to download a large area and it looks good. BirdsEye reports 38 square miles, 5769 images and a total size of 123.6 MB. I tried to send it to a memory card inserted in the Oregon and nothing happened. Then I tried sending to internal memory, BirdsEye checked and reported that I don't have a subscription (true) but would send a demo image of 1 square mile. This took a few minutes.

It appeared to send instantly and the properties indicated the file was there, but when I tried to quit the program it said it was still sending. A little later it let me quit, and when I started the Oregon I got an error message "Invalid BirdsEye File". The image was there however, and it looks fine (not very exciting, since the small area it chose was just trees though  ). So I guess the error message was the result of not having a subscription? The BirsdEye file has a .JNX extension.

So it's still a little rough around the edges, but it's not too bad for starters. 

[Indrid Cold]

This looks interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6e5irD4BCI

[babj615]

This looks interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6e5irD4BCI

What is it that you find so interesting about that?

[Indrid Cold]

This looks interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6e5irD4BCI

What is it that you find so interesting about that?

A user script for automatically downloading image data doesn't look interesting to you???