Re: Ique 3600 and Marine BlueCharts

From: Dale DePriest (Dale_at_gpsinformation.het)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:32:44 -0700

Anders Persson wrote:

> No wonder you can't find any information about that on Garmin's site.
> That's simply because they forgot to add these basic things to the
> iQue.
>
> How come? Well, they claim that the iQue isn't any waterproof unit, so
> it shouldn't be used on a boat!
>
> The best thing you can do, is to set routing to "Off-Road" (in GPS
> Preferences), and then only go single routes. You can't have vias in
> off-road routes, you see. Also, it's at them moment impossible to plan
> a route on the PC, with Mapsource, and then download it to the iQue.
>
> What is possible is to set a range of waypoints in Mapsource, import
> these (with the special program at Garmin's webpage) to the iQue and
> then manually change, so that you navigate to them in sequence.
>
> Maybe in the next release of the system software for the iQue. That
> will probably be sometime before winter.
>
> Anders

Yes, I would expect it. It looks like the cfQue has some features that
have not yet made it into the iQue and this is one. Hopefully the iQue
will get all the cfQue features soon.

Dale 

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