NEWER GARMIN NUVI TRICK & TIPS ARTICLES

NEWER GARMIN NUVI TRICK & TIPS ARTICLES

It's been a while since I furnished a listing of
the latest additions to the

Garmin Nuvi Tricks, Tips, Work Arounds,
Hints, Secrets and Ideas Web site.

Here is what has been added or revised during the past
two months


I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE UNDER MY FEET -
-------The Location Isn't Where My GPS Sez It Should Be

NEW GOOGLE MAPS WAY OF GETTING LAT/LON COORDINATES -
-------Developer Tools or Mapplets of Great Aid [Added Info]

YOUR TRIP IS AT YOUR COMMAND -
-------Better Spoken Commands For The n=FCvi 800 Series

WEBUPDATER/GARMIN COMMUNICATOR FAILURES -
-------A Tail Of Woe -- Then Success

FINDING THE COORDINATES OF A FAVORITE -
-------It's Fairly Easy With A Multitude Of Methods

YOUR N=DCVI AND CUSTOM POI .CSV FILE ON THE GOLF COURSE -
-------A Follow-on Article For Using Your n=FCvi On The
Fairway [Added Info]

SENDING A CHARGE TO YOUR N=DCVI -
-------Using the AC Charger To Add Juice [Added Info]

THE OFF ROAD MYSTERY -
-------Unsolved

MY WATERING HOLE AT THE STRIP CLUB -
-------Hiding A Custom POI

You can see these article, plus over 100 more at:

http://bit.ly/garmin_gps_tricks

Hint: Go to the Recent Additions page

You are invited to watch for other articles that
are currently in the works.

Gary Hayman

zydecogary wrote:

Did you try
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap

In the US, where maps are donated by US Army,

In Europe, where only Holland is 100%, and the rest is region/ city by
city ...

My question is: do the cheapest Garmin work with these maps too??


Of course, you can't open up a Garmin, it's linux, but did they open the
source code like http://opentom.org

For those winCE GPSses: don't panic, there is MioPocket3.0 that works on
most winCE gpses ..

I am not a shareholder, that means I'm free to use what I want ..
(and I know what open source is: somebody else is going to pay with cancer
for his interests)


Marc
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(with clarity & insight):


Official US Maps generally come from the US Geological Survey, but are
commercially generated by many independent sources.

The "donated" part seems essentially correct - the USGS mostly only
charges nominal fees for printing/production costs.

Anyway, our Army doesn't donate much of anything to the rest of the US
(besides security, of course, and large economic deficits). They are
certainly users of maps, mostly, I think, from the National
Reconnaissance Office for overseas as well as the USGS domestically.

http://www.usgs.gov/
http://www.nro.gov/

I'll be happy to learn otherwise...