New Garmin Montana

[tundradirtbiker]

Lefty, same with the PC.

As long as Montana is plugged in I get to see 100K on BC- pull the plug and it only retains global maps. I'm thinking I'd rather have the SD 24K on board the GPS vs the CD which plays primary on the PC.

[Albie]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

As long as your timing is right, it sort of works to do that but that does nothing about all the empty and useless directories which get left behind. I used to use your method but I'm glad a better solution now exists.

Hmm, where does it leave those directories? I've never stumbled across them.

[ramz]

Guys, get the CD - it installs on the PC/Mac and GPS receiver!


Other - the directories are invisible.

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by Albie

Hmm, where does it leave those directories? I've never stumbled across them.

You see them when you connect the device to a Windows computer.

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by ramz

Guys, get the CD - it installs on the PC/Mac and GPS receiver!.

Just for the record, it's a dvd.

[tundradirtbiker]

If the PC will take either DVD or SD disk, would the SDd be preferred for el speedo?

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by tundradirtbiker

If the PC will take either DVD or SD disk, would the SDd be preferred for el speedo?

The dvd is still better in many ways. You can't upgrade the SD version without buying it anew. No Lifetime Map Updates for the SD version.

[atlas cached]

THIS!

Originally Posted by ramz

Guys, get the CD - it installs on the PC/Mac and GPS receiver!

[tundradirtbiker]

Tx MBD

[eddyturn]

Good doG awlmighty.... I thought that I was close to getting what looks like a new release of the unit but having to soak all of this in is baffling me and keeping me with 2 478's and one of those for back up. Maybe after the first of the year and have my wife drive me everywhere. Dang scary for a computer set up phobe. Looks like a college course that changes frequently. Somebody should scan this all and put together a comprehensive book for this and make GMan look more foolish than they already do.

[advNZer?]

Originally Posted by leftystrat62

This kind of helped,but I'm still falling short of success. Here's what I have:
This is a screen shot of DockingPilot's TAT section -the exact same section I'm trying to load up

I am pretty sure DP has explained how he does(did this) Somewhere

edit here read the thread its about the problam you are facing(i think)

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by eddyturn

Good doG awlmighty.... I thought that I was close to getting what looks like a new release of the unit but having to soak all of this in is baffling me and keeping me with 2 478's and one of those for back up. Maybe after the first of the year and have my wife drive me everywhere. Dang scary for a computer set up phobe. Looks like a college course that changes frequently. Somebody should scan this all and put together a comprehensive book for this and make GMan look more foolish than they already do.

So you're willing to judge the Montana based on one person's problems with BaseCamp? You don't need to be a "Rocket Doctor" to use the Montana. It's an awesome device, with a learning curve, but once you've used it for a while you will never go back to an antique gps.

[mass-klr]

Originally Posted by mass-klr

It was as if it could not keep up. I was turning left on 6th and it was still stuck on saying that I should turn on 6th. Not sure if it could not see the satellites? I hope that was the case...

I had it in the Garmin car mount. The speed limit did not show even though I could see it before on the Amps mount where it goes red if I go over the speed limit.

Thanks,

I found the problem yesterday why my Montana was acting to strange and thought I would share.

Problems:
Speed limit did not show in CN maps
While navigating, I turn and that turn's text stays on the screen for another 15 to 30 seconds before showing the next turn.

Answer:
I noticed that the profile I am using for CN also had all of the other maps enabled, 100K, 24K, etc. I disabled the other maps and only left the CN maps enabled and all of the problems above disappeared. Yeah!!!

[Rocky TFS]

Originally Posted by mass-klr

Answer:
I noticed that the profile I am using for CN also had all of the other maps enabled, 100K, 24K, etc. I disabled the other maps and only left the CN maps enabled and all of the problems above disappeared. Yeah!!!

Many folks do not realize that when they add another map to the SD card or the unit by MapInstall, ALL the maps get enabled again in ALL the profiles!!
Very irritating behavior to someone like me who has individual state 24K maps (free at GPSFileDepot) that I swap in and out depending on the trip.

[Rocky TFS]

I may be a bit slow, but I finally figured out that just because the 600 does not have a camera it doesn't mean that you can't put geotagged photos on it or in BaseCamp.

I have a Panasonic Lumix with GPS that I never enabled because of battery life, so I just tried it. Took some pics with the GPS enabled, popped the camera card into the computer with BaseCamp running, BC recognizes card and the pic, copied the pic to a list, it shows up correctly on the BC map, sent it to the Montana.

Enable the photo viewer icon in a profile, the pics are there, click one, see it, use options menu to show on map, and Lo and Behold, my photo is right there on the topo map where I took it!

Another way to use up a lot of disk space in the computer and the GPSr....

Interesting to note that even if the photo has already been loaded into the computer via a photo editor/organizer, BC makes a copy of it in it's own folder, and even if the photo has GPS info in the EXIF, it has to make a little file to tell itself where to place the photo on the map.
Presumably the Montana does not, and is just reading the EXIF tag.

AND, you can drag any photo on your system, geotagged or not, onto the BC map from your photo editor/organizer, and place it where the pic was taken....(if you can remember.....)

Presumably lots of you already know this, but I'm old and slow, so it took me 10 months.