[pct-l] Using a GPS

[AsABat]

I fit all the CA OR and WA 24k topos on my Garmen Oregon on a 2GB card by leaving out the quads for the areas not reasonably near the PCT, mostly urban coastal areas. 

------Original Message------
From: Halfmile
To: Erik Turnberg
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
ReplyTo: halfmile at pctmap.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Using a GPS
Sent: Mar 15, 2010 11:53 AM

Granite,
If you use the free Gramin POI loader software here:
http://www8.garmin.com/products/poiloader/
You can easily load all my 6000 + waypoints as custom Points Of
Interest (POI) on the micro SD card and get around the 1,000 waypoint
limit. POI's require little space on the memory card.
You can load all the Garmin maps for CA, OR and WA on a single micro
SD card along with the POIs. If you are using the newer more detailed
1:24,000 maps, a single 4 GB microSD card will be required. A 2 GB
micro SD card works for the less detailed 1:100,000 maps.
If you go with the 4GB microSD card, run Garmin's web updater to
update the firmware in your GPS, as support for > 2 GB cards on the
Vista was added with an update about a year ago.
http://www8.garmin.com/products/webupdater/howtoinstall.jsp
Also, you will need to go into map setup and set the zoom level user
points are displayed on the GPS map screen. With the default "auto"
setting the custom POI's you load into the GPS usually don't display
on the map screen. If you have any questions let me know.

-Halfmile

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Erik Turnberg <erik.turnberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> First I want to give a huge thanks to halfmile for all the great information
> on his website and all the time he's put into it.  I've printed and will be
> using his maps in conjuction with the pct atlas.  I'm also interested in
> bringing a GPS along on the trip.  My question is how do people handle all
> of the waypoint data?  Have you just bought one very large memory card and
> loaded all the waypoint data?  or Are people loading onto several memory
> cards and putting them in mail drops?  I have a Garmin Vista HCx, which I'm
> still trying to figure out how to use given the complete lack of
> instructions with any Garmin product, especially when you want to use it on
> a mac.
>
> Thank,
>
> Granite
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