Update 1/18: Garmin officially announced BirdsEye today. Availability is March 2010. Details are still a bit sketchy but it looks like Garmin is finally releasing an all-you-can-eat satellite imagery subscription called BirdsEye for their outdoor handhelds that support Garmin Custom Maps. For $30 a year Oregon, Colorado and Dakota users who install a yet to [...]
The entire Oregon and Dakota line exited another beta phase today with new official releases of software from Garmin. Nothing very interesting to report since we’ve seen all of this in the prior beta releases but obviously Garmin is feeling good enough to make it official. The major improvements include support for new dashboards, dashboards [...]
A quick post to let Dakota owners know that they have been nice this year AND they will be getting more than a lump of coal for Christmas. Similar to the beta released a two weeks ago for the Oregon units, this beta gives Dakota users the same cool new dashboards and ability to see [...]
If you are a GB Discoverer user or need profile support for Custom Maps you’ll want to run Webupdater one more time this week. Garmin released more software for the Oregon, Colorado and Dakota this afternoon which was accompanied by the following two release notes: Added profile support for Garmin Custom Maps Fixed lockup while [...]
Updated 11/24: REI is offering free shipping on all Garmin devices through 11/30. The deals are starting to roll in ahead of Black Friday. The best deal on the Garmin Oregon right now is at REI where they are offering the Oregon 300 for $250. No shipping if you opt for store pickup and REI [...]
Yesterday Garmin announced (press release | blog) official software upgrades for the Oregon, Dakota and Colorado which include the Garmin Custom Maps feature. Garmin described Custom Maps as “a free, simple process that helps users transform the maps they currently have – in paper or digital form – into downloadable maps for compatible Garmin GPS [...]
After experimenting with GPS Visualizer to create Garmin KMZ files last week I contacted Adam Schneider, author of GPS Visualizer, about making it easier to create Garmin Custom Maps using his very useful (and free) online tool. Today Adam published changes to GPS Visualizer which simplify the process of creating Custom Maps from some types [...]
