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Topic: OSM: Beginners Introduction to Mapping |
channeler
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Forum: OpenStreetMap Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:16 pm Subject: Setting up Etrex Legend c for mapping |
Hi Darren,
Thanks for the easy to follow guide to contributing data to openstreetmap. The maps are now producing amazing detail especially when combined with contours from the Scottish Mountaineeri ... |
Topic: Etrex Legend c, Mapsource and Openstreetmap |
channeler
Replies: 4
Views: 5989
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Forum: Garmin Handheld GPS Receivers Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:14 pm Subject: Topographic Maps on Etrex Legend c |
After some further experimentation I have found that the maps prepared using Free Mapsource Mapset Manager: ezMS v1.04 when displayed in Mapsource are producing some thick gridlines in parts of the ma ... |
Topic: Etrex Legend c, Mapsource and Openstreetmap |
channeler
Replies: 4
Views: 5989
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Forum: Garmin Handheld GPS Receivers Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:36 pm Subject: Topographic Maps on Etrex Legend c |
Found many of the programmes suggested for putting together maps based on openstreetmap for uploading to a Garmin GPS a bit technical. I downloaded the contours I needed from the Scottish Mountaineeri ... |
Topic: Etrex Legend c, Mapsource and Openstreetmap |
channeler
Replies: 4
Views: 5989
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Forum: Garmin Handheld GPS Receivers Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:48 pm Subject: Mapsource and Openstreetmap |
I updated Mapsource to the latest version and downloaded maps using Firefox rather than IE. After processing with Mapsource Manager the footpaths are now displaying. Now I just need to get my head aro ... |
Topic: Etrex Legend c, Mapsource and Openstreetmap |
channeler
Replies: 4
Views: 5989
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Forum: Garmin Handheld GPS Receivers Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:13 pm Subject: Etrex Legend c, Mapsource and Openstreetmap |
I want to put topo maps of England on my Etrex Legend c.
Garmin Discoverer maps are not possible for this unit so at first I was looking at the Garmin Topo GB DVD. However, after seeing the amount o ... |
Topic: i3 using City Select Europe v7 packaged with GPS 18 USB |
channeler
Replies: 4
Views: 2497
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:25 pm Subject: City Select and City Navigator Europe |
I must admit I don't fully understand the differences between the different disc versions. The ones I have are the "plain" ones. I didn't think the i3 used the NT versions. I have also bought Metrogui ... |
Topic: i3 to Tom Tom One? |
channeler
Replies: 2
Views: 2056
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:15 pm Subject: i3 and Tom Tom 1 |
I own an i3 but my daughter recently decided to buy a Tom Tom 1. She wanted a bigger screen than the i3, and she liked the idea of being able to use a touch screen rather than the wheel of the i3.
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Topic: i3 using City Select Europe v7 packaged with GPS 18 USB |
channeler
Replies: 4
Views: 2497
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:55 pm Subject: i3 and City Select Europe v7 |
Just got back from a European tour of France, Switzerland and Italy. Overall was very impressed with the performance of the unit and City Select mapping. There were some idiosyncracies ie: when we wer ... |
Topic: i3 using City Select Europe v7 packaged with GPS 18 USB |
channeler
Replies: 4
Views: 2497
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:09 pm Subject: Streetpilot i3 and City Select Europe v7 |
The 25 digit code was tied to the GPS 18 so I had to use it for that and then ask for another free 25 digit code so I could use the City Select Europe Maps in a second unit ie: my i3. It was a bit ner ... |
Topic: i3 using City Select Europe v7 packaged with GPS 18 USB |
channeler
Replies: 4
Views: 2497
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:11 pm Subject: i3 using City Select Europe v7 packaged with GPS 18 USB |
I have just bought the above package which comes with nroute as it is designed as an auto navigation kit for using with a laptop. I only want to use it with my i3 and if possible with an etrex unit al ... |
Topic: i3 V2.90 now avail from Garmin. |
channeler
Replies: 206
Views: 73790
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 7:18 pm Subject: Thanks |
Thanks for the link. Have now downloaded 2.7 |
Topic: i3 V2.90 now avail from Garmin. |
channeler
Replies: 206
Views: 73790
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 6:16 pm Subject: 2.9 and voice prompts |
Got lost for the first time using my i3 in Lancaster a couple of days ago. The voice prompts are just too early in built up areas with a lot of streets. There is just no way of identifying the right r ... |
Topic: i3 V2.90 now avail from Garmin. |
channeler
Replies: 206
Views: 73790
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:08 pm Subject: v2.9 |
Went online to update to v2.9 after getting the news email from Garmin. The new version of Webupdater installed first then 2.9.
I haven't had some of the problems that other people have mentioned i ... |
Topic: i3 Cheap maps? Canada, greece, portugal |
channeler
Replies: 3
Views: 2347
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:55 pm Subject: Canada Map |
You'll find the thread about Canada Maps here:
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=35869
MetroGuide Canada unlike most of the MetroGuides does navigate ... |
Topic: Streetpilot i3 and Canada Map Data |
channeler
Replies: 16
Views: 4977
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:38 pm Subject: MetroGuide Canada v4 and streetpilot i3 |
Now back from our two weeks holiday in Canada. Metroguide got us from Victoria to Calgary with turn by turn voice commands. It was particularly valuable of course in getting us to locations in the cit ... |
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