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Pear Head · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:30 pm Post subject:

I stand corrected.
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EPMinnesota · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1898

This is an Etrex Vista. Just the plain old Vista. He just has used it for hunting and hasn't needed it for anything else so it has worked for him. He's interested in caching and hoping to be able to use it to get him started even though it doesn't have "geocaching" icons, etc. He does need some maps though!

speedysk1 · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:45 pm Post subject:

EPMinnesota · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1898

It has very little on it. It's gray/black which would drive me crazy but it only has major roads on it. I must not be doing something quite right to get some street maps on it.

Pear Head · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject:

EPMinnesota · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1898

I found my first hundred with a Lowrance Igo. AWFUL! I can't imagine how I made it through. That's why I found so few my first year though! For my 1st anniversary I got my current Venture CX and with adding streetmaps I'm fine with it. I think it's really tough without streetmaps and I sure wasted a lot of time without them! The guy I'm trying to upgrade for saw me add maps to a 60cx for someone else and asked if I could do the same!

speedysk1 · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:21 pm Post subject:

Hayward Cheezehead · Geocacher Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 32

You do need Mapsource but you can use these maps in your Gramin.
I have it download into my 60CSx along with, Garmin Topo and City Navigator. It gives more detail and also shows benchmarks.
http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/153/

I dont have all off Wi or Mn or Upper Mi loaded but my gps say's it's 4% full with 1861 MB free and 85.59 mb used
and I did replace my micro card with a 2 GB card

Arcticabn · Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:26 am Post subject:

Here is my list of FREE map sources. There are entire sets of routable maps for the US States on some of these websites. They might not be as good as City Navigator, but they surely will do the job. And yes there are ways to load the maps directly into the GPSr without using Mapsource.

If you don't know how to load free maps here is a web site that explains it.
http://freegeographytools.com/2007/adding-garmin-img-files-to-mapsource

Use this site to do a search for maps. Just click on the location you want.
http://gpsmapsearch.com/

Here is a pretty good source for a whole host of countries:
http://home.wtal.de/noegs/freemaps.htm

Here is another good site for finding maps:
http://mapcenter.cgpsmapper.com//

Topos for all of France
http://www.katzforums.com/showthread.php?t=55919

Caribbean Map Project: GPS Maps for Central America and Caribbean
http://rwsmaps.griffel.se/

Proyecto Map Ear: GPS Map for Argentina. Very detailed!
http://viajerosmapas.com/actualiza.htm

Topos of the UK and Scotland
http://www.smc.org.uk/ContourMaps.htm

Another site with various countries listed.
http://www.mousetrap.net/~mouse/gps/maps.html
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qwerty2582 · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 457

This one pulls data from openstreetmap.org and creates the .img files to drop directly onto your Garmin. I used it over the Thanksgiving weekend caching, and it worked great!! If you're looking for street maps, I'd definitely recommend it.

http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php