Uploading Maps to eTrex H

[PaulF]

I have a .img (for New York state). How do I upload this to my eTrex H. Googling suggests switching to USB mode but I don't appear to have this option on the menus (and suspect it's only available on the Hcx model)

[Chris N]

You can't - there's no way of adding maps to the H.

[Greenbank]

It's not an eTrex H.

Well it's this one Garmin eTrex Legend Blue so it has 'base maps', but lacks routing and has a USB cable (from the picture at least). It should arrive at the weekend!.

You should be able to import them with Mapsource. How I'm not sure as I don't have a mapping GPS.

[Chris N]

Oh, then I'm not sure either.

[frankly frankie]

It may be possible to import your img files into Mapsource using cGPSmapper** and MapSetToolKit. Actually the latter is just a GUI front-end for the former, which does all the work.
http://cypherman1.googlepages.com/home
good walk-through tutorial at
http://sites.google.com/site/scdiscdi/mstk

** downloadable in several versions ranging from 'free' to 'several thousand pounds'.  I recommend downloading the free version!

From Mapsource you can transfer the map to the GPS.
If you have a PC but don't have Mapsource, is is apparently possible to trick Garmin's download page into providing it, a tutorial for that is here.

[PaulF]

It may be possible to import your img files into Mapsource using cGPSmapper** and MapSetToolKit. Actually the latter is just a GUI front-end for the former, which does all the work.
http://cypherman1.googlepages.com/home
good walk-through tutorial at
http://sites.google.com/site/scdiscdi/mstk

Thanks - worked perfectly

** downloadable in several versions ranging from 'free' to 'several thousand pounds'.  I recommend downloading the free version!

From Mapsource you can transfer the map to the GPS.
If you have a PC but don't have Mapsource, is is apparently possible to trick Garmin's download page into providing it, a tutorial for that is here.