Re: upgrade from GPSV : 2610 or Quest



With the 2610 and a 2Gig card you can load the US and then some.

"Bill Cotton" <Billcotton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: "Hervé Delattre" <delath@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: > Hi all
: >
: > I currently own a Garmin GPS V. I would like to upgrade to a new unit
with
: > more memory : 19MB is really not enough.
: >
: > I'm using my V mainly in my car, and some times on my motorcycle (with a
: > ram mount).
: >
: > I need some advices from 2610 and Quest owners.
: >
: > - how is the 2610 screen in very sunny conditions ?
: I use a quest in my car and bicycle;
: http://www.billcotton.com/quest_on_bicycle.htm I see the screen well in
the
: sun. better with the backlight on at daytime.
:
: > - Can you download routes you creates in mapsource on the unit like you
do
: > with the V ?
: The Quest comes with City Select and I download my routes from that
program.
: I previously use a Garmin II+ and a eMap. The Quest will not follow old
: routes that I made in Mapsource or Delorme for those GPS. However, with
City
: Select set for Bicycle, and road preference set to what I perfer. I get
the
: same routing in City Select that I get in Mapsource and Delorme map.
: My Quest has 115 megbyte og map storage and I have all of the Northeast
: corridor od the US from Conncuitt to Washington, DC Since I started using
: the Quest I have loaded 25 save route most 50 miles or more as I usually
: ride a 100 mile century each month
: http://www.billcotton.com/my_centuries_rides.htm
: My other GPS would stop loadin a route when the waypoint exceed 50 on the
: eMap and lest on the Garmin II+. The Quest has excepted every route I have
: loaded todate. One a car trip from Philadeplia to Long Island NY.
: >
: > Thanks in advance for your answers.
: >
: > Hervé
:
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