Re: GPS and user uploaded charts.


"José Rui Faustino de Sousa" <jrfsousa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"Dennis Pogson" <dennis_nospampogson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On
such a small device the chart would have to be very large scale,
therefore
too big to load if you wanted to cover a large area.


It is 1:25000 and each 16km x 10km slab should wheigth about 7MB so a
2GB SD card should carry about 290 of them so I could have the whole
country in 3 SD cards with pretty good overlap.

The Garmin 60C/S range are superb instruments so long as you use
Garmin
maps/charts.


Yes that is precisly the problem there no topographical Garmin maps for
my country.

If by "tricks" you mean file-sharing etc.


No. I meant using reversed enginered software to load maps to the Garmin
GPS devices.

I want map uploading to be a supported feature not some hack that will
work until Garmin decides to stop it.

Best regards,
José Rui



You can get a Bushnell ONIX 200 or a ONIX 200CR (color screen).
Both allow you to overlay up to 4 images over the GPS base map.
You can add a satellite photograph or a topo map, whatever.

http://www.bushnellgps.com/products/products.htm


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