Etrex 20 - where to buy from

[Biggsy]

Yeahbut £2 would buy you 200g of Tesco 74% chocolate.   

Second-hand Etrex 20 on eBay (not mine).

[Dave_C]

Got the eTrex 20, taken the old 4gb uSD card oot the phone, now need a free copy of Winzip. I paid for a copy 5 years ago and I've upgraded the OS since.... Dhoop. I'll do it at work themorra...

[Feanor]

Don't pay for any winzip type thing.

Use 7zip, it's free and betterer.

http://www.7-zip.org/

[Dave_C]

Cheers Ron, thats great!

[BrianI]

an interesting thread!
May get myself a etrex 20 sometime soon too! 

[Kim]

Got the eTrex 20, taken the old 4gb uSD card oot the phone, now need a free copy of Winzip. I paid for a copy 5 years ago and I've upgraded the OS since.... Dhoop. I'll do it at work themorra...

http://m.9gag.com/gag/5713890

[frankly frankie]

Don't pay for any winzip type thing.

I'm sure any recent version of Windows (XP onward) can open zip files natively

[Dave_C]

Don't pay for any winzip type thing.

I'm sure any recent version of Windows (XP onward) can open zip files natively

Well I had an expired freetirla copy and as soon as I uninstalled Winzip, the zip file changed to an image file *.img

[Dave_C]

Hi again,

I have the osm map on the Garmin, thanks for all the help. I now have the Forth and Tay gpx file.

So on the microSD card I have the following structure:

/GARMIN containing a directory ./GPX/ and the gmapsupp.img map file image
/GARMIN/GPX/routename.gpx file

So I have learned:

to start the route off:

select 'Where To?' icon.
select 'Tracks' icon

lists:
'Current Track'
'Forth and Tay'

click the track you want and you are taken to the map page with a large GO button on the foot of the screen.

[Hillbilly]

Frankly Frankie has written some good articles in Arrivee (and probably online somewhere) on how to get on with your GPS.  Worth reading.

[PaulF]

Ron the cd is free from www.ordinancesurvey.co.uk/opendata

I am expecting my new eTrex 20 tomorrow when I'll be investigating the mapping.

So essentially do I save the map I want as the name above (gmapsupp.img)?? and pop it on the memory card and insert it into my eTrex?

Think this is the relevant link http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/os-opendata.html

[Dave_C]

Cheers Paul.

I have on my free CD a searchable list of placenames with their coordinates and the 1:25000?? Gazzetter type map, the same thing as you would get as say an AA Road Atlas of the UK.

The Vector map looks promising but I don't know if I'm capable of joining up the 10km by 10km blocks.

I have found through Google a couple of pdfs from auk but they weren't loading when I looked at them.  I'll have another look later, cheers.

[Oaky]

Frankly Frankie has written some good articles in Arrivee (and probably online somewhere) on how to get on with your GPS.  Worth reading.

Online here: http://www.aukadia.net/gps/

Very useful - I was surprised when there wasn't a GPS board sticky post with that link in.

[Dave_C]

Cheers Oakly, the links off the Audax site work, the direct links to the pdf from Google wasn't.